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The meeting emboldened Pastis, who took to reading Dilbert collections to try and evaluate why successful strips worked.

Schulz graciously invited him to sit down and gave him some input on The Infirm, a legal comedy Pastis was working on at the time. Hearing that Peanuts creator Charles Schulz stopped in for breakfast every morning at a Santa Rosa ice skating rink, Pastis staked out the arena in 1996 in the hopes of soliciting some advice from the legendary cartoonist. “But in truth, what you do is, you get in petty fights with other lawyers about who served whom and when, and how well you can bury someone in discovery, and keep someone in deposition for hours.” 2. “When you’re in law school, you think you’re going to be a lawyer like Oliver Wendell Holmes, arguing esoteric points of law,” he told in 2014. At night, he would draw and send samples to syndicates. The San Marino, California native practiced in the field of insurance defense from 1993 to 2002, representing insurance companies who were being sued by policyholders.

STEPHAN PASTIS STARTED OUT AS A CARTOONING LAWYER.īefore he committed to cartooning as a profession, Stephan Pastis studied to become an attorney. Take a look at a few things you might not have realized about the strip’s history, including its origins and why the notoriously reclusive Bill Watterson once paid it an illustrated visit. Pastis lives with his family in Northern California.Since its quiet debut online in 2001, Pearls Before Swine, Stephan Pastis’s strip about an anthropomorphic and acerbic band of animals trading barbs and cultural commentary, has become one of the bigger success stories in modern-day cartooning. Pearls Before Swine was nominated in 2003, 20 as "Best Newspaper Comic Strip" by the National Cartoonists Society and won the award in 20. Pearls Before Swine debuted in newspapers in January, 2002, and Pastis left his law practice in August of that year. In December, 1999, he signed a contract with United. Then, in 1997, he began drawing Pearls Before Swine, which he submitted to the syndicates in mid-1999. While an attorney, he began submitting various comic strip concepts to all of the syndicates, and, like virtually all beginning cartoonists, got his fair share of rejection slips. He practiced law in the San Francisco Bay area from 1993 to 2002. Although he had always wanted to be a syndicated cartoonist, Pastis realized that the odds of syndication were slim, so he entered UCLA Law School in 1990 and became an attorney instead. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989 with a degree in political science. Stephan Pastis was born in 1968 and raised in San Marino, California, a suburb of Los Angeles.