A Stephan Pastis cartoon may have made you spit your coffee across the breakfast table.
Pastis, who draws and writes the popular and edgy comic strip “Pearls Before Swine,” which appears in more than 600 newspapers, including the Star, will be on stage at 1 p.m. Sunday, March 13.
Pastis’ anthropomorphic animals make silly and serious comment on adult themes, and Pastis isn’t shy about drawing parodies of other comics.
He’s also a children’s author. Pastis takes off six weeks in the summer from his comic strip to write his “Timothy Failure” series featuring a clueless yet overly confident detective and his polar bear sidekick.
What to expect at the festival: Pastis requested — he actually asked for — the Star’s David Fitzsimmons to moderate the session, so count on irreverence, laughter and tongue-in-cheek humor.
—Stephan Pastis will speak at 1 p.m. on Sunday
