You’d think with a title like that he’d add a visit to Tucsaloosa. (Maybe Little Rock residents can turn to page 138 of Pearls Awaits The TideĪnd have Stephan sign that censored “test to cull” strip.) Here’s your chance to get a signed copy of Stephan’s new(ish) Pearls collection. Pastis scolded the paper for pulling the strip in a July 23, 2019, tweet that ended, “Curse you, Comic Strip Censor Guy.”

He has had two run-ins with Democrat-Gazette editors, one in 2003 when then-Deputy Editor Frank Fellone complained to the syndicate about the use of symbolic depictions of swear words in a Sunday cartoon as having gone over the line, and again in July 2019 when Deputy Editor Kim Christ pulled a strip that contained a punny reference to a male body part and substituted an old strip in its place. Pastis frequently dances close to the edge in terms of content and, in the eyes of some of the editors of the papers that publish his strip, taste. In the mid-1990s, he revisited his earlier ambition of becoming a syndicated cartoonist by submitting various concepts to agencies. I’ll do comments on just about every strip - the reactions I’ve received, both positive and negative making fun of the way I draw explaining why I thought a particular joke was funny when it seems no one else did.”įrom The Arkansas Democrat Gazette article anticipating the stopover: Stephan Pastis (stephanpastis) From 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. “I kind of turn it into the comic strip version of a director’s cut. “The great thing about the books is that we make them unique,” he said.

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