“People were calling Staci and offering their support,” Pastis mused.
Most significantly, in a “Pearls Before Swine” story line that has confused some locals who know the Pastis family, Steph was thrown out by his wife, Staci, four years ago, and was last seen camping out on her porch. Like Pastis, Steph has a stubbly beard (although Pastis keeps his beard neatly close-cropped) and wears a baseball cap (but Steph wears his backwards.) While Pastis is fit and trim at 49, Steph is paunchy and slovenly. On the other hand, Steph - the name Pastis usually uses for his recurring alter-ego in “Pearls Before Swine” - is a different story.
His latest nine-city national tour, in support of the newest book collection of his comic strips, “‘Pearls’ Hogs the Road,” opens April 21 at the Charles Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa. That’s in spite of the cartoonist’s frequent travels to promote his books. Wandering his three-and-a-half acre Santa Rosa property and two-story home with his faithful springer spaniel Edie, Pastis is a living picture of domestic bliss. Then he hopes to launch a new series about a little girl.Īside from his career, the real Pastis is also a happy family man, married to his wife, Staci, a fourth-generation Santa Rosan, for 23 years. The sixth “Timmy Failure” book, which mixes drawings and text in a format similar to the popular “Wimpy Kid” series, comes out this month, and Pastis plans to put out two more. “I can say that much, but I can’t say which studio and I can’t say who the co-writer is.” It’s also too soon to say when the movie might go into production. “I sold the first Timmy Failure book to a major studio and I have been working on the script with a co-writer,” Pastis said. The real-life Pastis is the creator of both the long popular “Pearls Before Swine” syndicated comic strip, running since 2002, and a kids’ book series about the rather arrogant and inept boy detective Timmy Failure, introduced in 2013, which is in the very early stages of a possible live-action film adaptation.
One is a successful cartoonist and author, and the other is a comic strip character.
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