Words matter. These are the best Stephan Pastis Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The only thing I learn on a daily basis from law school is that I disliked it and the law so much that it’s constantly this fire at my heels.
I was a lawyer for 10 years, and when you’re in law, things really have to get done, or somebody sues you. It’s a great trick.
For me, going to Minneapolis is like going to Mecca.
Sticking to my schedule, I’ve gotten over seven months ahead, which allowed me to write a ‘Pearls Before Swine’ movie script for the big screen.
I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter.
Repeats are the absolute soul-crushing killers of the comics page.
I never feel burdened or overwhelmed by my work. People tell you to find something you love for a career, and I have. That makes me feel very lucky.
The principles of comedy are the principles of comedy. I can hear funny.
Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It’s darker, more cutting.
The wonderful thing about a book is that you have a canvas that is 300 pages wide, and it’s all free space. You can make a piece of art as big as you want and whatever shape you want.
This is every creative person’s dream – a hobby that I’m lucky enough to get paid for.
If somebody is not on the same page with me humor wise, I can’t give them that.
Maybe the bar is low, but most of the strips that are 50, 60, 70 years old that are on their second or third generation of artists, the humor is pretty bland. There are others by people that were raised on ‘Family Guy’ or ‘South Park’ that are edgier. Mine’s not as edgy as those, but it’s edgier than ‘Beetle Bailey.’
I want to shake things up like ‘Bloom County’ did.
A stand-up comedian faces the audiences and gets their immediate feedback. I hide behind the comic strip, and unless people write to me, I don’t know what they think.
It seems so absurd to get really mad with a cartoonist over a comic strip. It’s sort of like getting in a fight with a circus clown outside your house. It’s not going to end well.
A biscuit in the States is something you would put gravy on with dinner, and it’s not sweet in the least!
You can’t just count on becoming a syndicated cartoonist. I actually tried to calculate the odds once, and the best I could come up with is a 1-in-36,000 chance. And the odds of getting hit by lightning are 1 in 7,900 – which kind of shows how long those odds are.
I write for three or four hours and then hopefully I’ll have something. Then I draw for the rest of the afternoon… I literally block out Wednesday-Thursday-Friday – I more or less disappear.
Basically, I learned to read by reading ‘Peanuts,’ just wanting to know what they were saying.
A comic strip has a rhythm and a pattern, and you got to get in and out quick. So you set up a joke, tell the joke, and done.
We need more cartoonists to truly retire when they retire, and not run repeats.
To get syndicated as a comic strip artist is as likely as winning the lottery.
I guess that compared to other comic strips, I’m edgy. But put me along something like ‘South Park,’ and I’m ‘Captain Kangaroo.’
I like characters like Ignatius Reilly in ‘A Confederacy of Dunces’ and Ricky Gervais’s character in ‘The Office.’ They think one thing about themselves, but the truth is as far from that as it can be. So I began to think about how to put that kind of character in a book for kids.
