This is every creative person’s dream – a hobby that I’m lucky enough to get paid for. Stephan Pastis Read Quote
If you’re from a certain generation, you basically learn to read with ‘Peanuts.’ It’s sort of the template for the modern strip. Its influence ceased to be noticed because it’s in everything. Stephan Pastis Read Quote
I don’t like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I’d have to pencil it first. Stephan Pastis Read Quote
The wonderful thing about a book is that you have a canvas that is 300 pages wide, and it’s all free space. You can make a piece of art as big as you want and whatever shape you want. Stephan Pastis Read Quote
You can write a little and can draw a little, but there’s necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space. Stephan Pastis Read Quote
We need more cartoonists to truly retire when they retire, and not run repeats. Stephan Pastis Read Quote
I have days where the only words I say are to the person making my sandwich at the grocery store. Stephan Pastis Read Quote
I think it might surprise the average person how angry people can get over the comics. Stephan Pastis Read Quote
It seems so absurd to get really mad with a cartoonist over a comic strip. It’s sort of like getting in a fight with a circus clown outside your house. It’s not going to end well. Stephan Pastis Read Quote
