The meeting did not begin auspiciously, however, as Pastis blurted out: “Hi, Sparky (Schulz’s nickname), my name is Stephan Pastis and I’m a lawyer.” Schulz turned pale, thinking Pastis was there to serve him with a subpoena. That turned out to be one of the major turning points of his life. One day, in 1996, Pastis drove to an ice rink in Santa Rosa, California where Charles Schulz, the creator of Peanuts, had his coffee every day. The character “Pig,” who is Rat’s opposite, had been featured in “The Infirm,” a strip about an attorney who numbered an evil pig farmer among his clients. The character of Rat came from Pastis’ earlier strip, Rat. Pearls Before Swine borne out of earlier comic strip called “Rat” In the mid-1990s, he revisited his earlier ambition of becoming a syndicated cartoonist by submitting various concepts to agencies.
ZELeTREotMįrom 1993 to 2002, Pastis was an insurance defense litigation attorney in the San Francisco Bay area, but he quickly became disenchanted with the legal profession. That moment you get photobombed by Jeff Keane (aka 'Jeffy'), creator of The Family Circus. Notwithstanding the seemingly incongruous nature of the two comic strips, their creators are quick to reassure readers that they are both good friends in real life. One such recent compilation is when Pig and Rat get into a political discussion about millionaires and political power in the United States and the “Family Circus” characters, not known for their countercultural leanings, bring home the point. Pastis is known for his forays into other comic strips, combining unlikely characters who sometimes take their own speaking bubbles into the strips drawn by other creators. It was the first character where I could really say what’s on my mind.
“When I wrote for him (Rat) it seemed pretty honest. Pastis attended law school at UCLA but kept drawing all that time, coming up with the first Pearls Before Swine character, Rat, during a boring class in law school. He attended the University of California at Berkeley, earning a B.A.
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