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Whenever I see people with their collars up, I'm tempted to point it out to them like you would for someone who has a food stain on their shirt or food in their teeth, as if to say, 'Your fashion sens...

Stephan Pastis

Whenever I see people with their collars up, I'm tempted to point it out to them like you would for someone who has a food stain on their shirt or food in their teeth, as if to say, 'Your fashion sens...

Tags: collar, fashion

Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.

Stephan Pastis

Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.

Tags: better, sense of humor

About Author
Stephan Thomas Pastis ( STEF-ən PAS-tiss; born January 16, 1968) is an American cartoonist and former lawyer who is the creator of the comic strip Pearls Before Swine. He also writes children's chapter books, commencing with the release of Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made. The seventh book, It's the End When I Say It's the End, debuted at #4 on The New York Times Best Seller list for Children's Middle Grade Books.

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 rais...

Stephan Pastis

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 rais...

Tags: family, generation, people

When I say 'friends,' I use that term loosely, as I don't actually have any.

Stephan Pastis

When I say 'friends,' I use that term loosely, as I don't actually have any.

Tags: friends

If somebody is not on the same page with me humor wise, I can't give them that.

Stephan Pastis

If somebody is not on the same page with me humor wise, I can't give them that.

Tags: wise, me, page

You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.

Stephan Pastis

You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.

Tags: you, comic, little

I recently forced myself to read a book on quantum physics, just to try and learn something new. I was confused by the middle of the first sentence and it all went downhill from there. The only thing...

Stephan Pastis

I recently forced myself to read a book on quantum physics, just to try and learn something new. I was confused by the middle of the first sentence and it all went downhill from there. The only thing...

Tags: physics

Thomas, my 15-year-old, is effectively my editor, I've always trusted his voice, more than anybody, on the strip for years. He has one of those ears that's just tuned to the rhythm of humor, so if he...

Stephan Pastis

Thomas, my 15-year-old, is effectively my editor, I've always trusted his voice, more than anybody, on the strip for years. He has one of those ears that's just tuned to the rhythm of humor, so if he...

Tags: funny, voice, know

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 lightni...

Stephan Pastis

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 lightni...

Tags: best, long, you