Pearls and swine comic7/4/2023 ![]() He stopped in Selma and stood on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. He went to Montgomery, Ala., and saw Martin Luther King Jr.'s desk in the church where King served as pastor. This adventure was, in part, civil rights inspired. "I travel, and I draw, and it's just great," Pastis says with a satisfied chuckle. ![]() ![]() Which is exactly how he came rolling full speed into Nashville in early April on a 13-or-so city Southern road trip. He had an atlas, and he drew with a pencil everywhere he wanted to go. The other thing he wanted to do, even at that ripe young age, was travel. "And I don't know how many people can say that." "When I was 10 imaging my dream of life, now I am doing that exact thing," Pastis says. In 2002, "Pearls" made its newspaper debut. It didn’t take long for Pastis to earn praise from fellow cartoonists, including "Dilbert" creator Scott Adams. After repeated rejections, the work appeared online. He came up with Rat - then a less highly evolved being who walked on four legs, not two - while doodling in the notebook margins during a boring law school class on the European economic community.Įventually, Pastis submitted the made-in-his-spare-time strips to all the big syndicates. All of which he hated.īut, on the side, he would draw. Instead of seeking a scratch-off-filled future, he became a lawyer. He went to Berkeley for undergrad and UCLA law school. ![]() "So, if you bet on it, it's like saying my future is buying lottery tickets." "It's like winning the lottery," he says. ![]()
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