When Stephan Pastis first created Pearls Before Swine in late 2001, there was no way that he could have predicted the strip's eventual success. It proved to be a hit within industry circles, and it ...

Tom Rapp, who founded Pearls Before Swine, an eclectic band much loved by aficionados of underground music in the 1960s and ‘70s, then became a civil rights lawyer, only to take an encore after being ...

The Pearls Before Swine comic strip has always been fairly unique. After all, few other strips have their creator as a regular character in each panel. Stephan Pastis ensured that he would always be ...

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Stephan Pastis is a cartoonist and creator of the comic strip Pearls Before Swine. He will visit Dallas on April 27 to promote his latest book, Pearls Hogs the Road, which features 18 months of comic ...

Stephan Pastis is a lot of things — creator of the comic “Pearls Before Swine,” New York Times bestselling author, Disney movie writer — but one thing he probably never expected to be was a guy who ...

As “Pearls Before Swine” comic creator Stephan Pastis travels around the United States to promote his latest book, things are “Looking Up” for him. At least that’s the title of his latest release, ...

An upcoming storyline in “Pearls Before Swine,” the popular comic strip created by Santa Rosa cartoonist Stephan Pastis, has been pulled from 850 newspapers by its distributor because five ...

Stephan Pastis, the creator of the comic strip “Pearls Before Swine,” shared jokes and stories about his career as a newspaper comic artist at a Northwest Passages Book Club event Tuesday night. Edgy ...