Stephan Pastis
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Stephan Pastis is the creator of the comic strip Pearls Before Swine. He was born January 16, 1968 and raised in San Marino, California. He attended the University of California at Berkeley and UCLA Law School. Before working as a cartoonist he was a lawyer, practicing insurance law. He lives in Northern California with his wife and children.
Pastis won the The National Cartoonists Society best newspaper comic strip award for 2003.
One of his favorite painters is Edward Hopper. Influences can be seen in the October 13, 2002 Sunday Pearls Before Swine strip which is based on the painting Rooms by the Sea, and the cover of the comic strip collection Nighthogs which is based on the painting Nighthawks.
External links
- Biography from the official Pearls Before Swine website (http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/pearls/html/about_author.html)
- Short bio (http://www.reuben.org/ncs/members/biogs/pastis.asp) (with picture) at The National Cartoonists SocietyTemplate:Comics-creator-stub