5/28/2023 0 Comments Pastis comic![]() ![]() One day, I just stuck one of the pigs with the rat. The pig was taken from a strip I used to draw about an attorney, called “The Infirm.” In one strip, I had an attorney defending an evil pig farmer, and I liked the way I drew the pigs. I first drew Rat while bored during a class on the European Economic Community in law school. How did you come up with your characters?Ī. Whether he likes it or not Stephan Pastis takes ownership (©) of all imagesįrom an early interview with (later GoComics): But even before that Pearls and other Pastis comic strips had appeared online, as early as 1997. ![]() ![]() United Feature Syndicate, who had signed Stephan to a contract in July 1999, began running the upcoming strip online in November 2000 (the 16th?). The official launch date was, and remains, Janu– a Monday.īut Pearls Before Swine had appeared online even before that Orlando Sentinel appearance. I would later re-run the strip so it could run in all the other newspapers as well. This strip ran in the Orlando Sentinel, which for some reason needed to start the strip a week before all the other newspapers kicked in. It was Decemthat Pearls Before Swine first debuted in newspapers. Pearls Before Swine made its newspaper debut on December 30, 2001.Īs Stephan explains it was a premature birth: ![]()
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