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Stephan Pastis was born in 1968 and raised in San Marino, California, a suburb of Los
Angeles. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989 with a
degree in political science. Although he had always wanted to be a syndicated
cartoonist, Pastis realized that the odds of syndication were slim, so he entered
UCLA Law School in 1990 and became an attorney instead. He practiced law in the San
Francisco Bay area from 1993 to 2002. While an attorney, he began submitting various
comic strip concepts to all of the syndicates, and, like virtually all beginning
cartoonists, got his fair share of rejection slips. Then, in 1997, he began drawing
Pearls Before Swine, which he submitted to the syndicates in mid-1999. In December,
1999, he signed a contract with United.
Pearls Before Swine debuted in newspapers in January, 2002, and Pastis left his law
practice in August of that year. Pearls Before Swine was nominated in 2003, 2004 and
2007 as "Best Newspaper Comic Strip" by the National Cartoonists Society and won the
award in 2004 and 2007. Pastis lives with his family in Northern California.
In case you missed it, Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis was a guest on
CNBC's "The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch", talking about how he left his
hated career as a lawyer to realize his lifelong dream of being a syndicated cartoonist.
Click here to see the show.
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