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Yesterday evening, Bob Andelman of Mr. Media left a comment on a previous post from earlier in the week where I fawned over Sunday’s “PBS” strip, and pointed me in the direction of an interview he’d done with Stephan Pastis just last week.

If you’re a “Pearls Before Swine” fan, I highly recommend you check the interview out. I’d not previously read/heard an interview with Pastis, so I learned quite a bit. For instance, he’s friends with Darby Conley (”Get Fuzzy”).

In one really interesting segment, he discusses balancing some of the newer elements of the strip (the crocs) with the older/original elements (Pig and Rat). I only discovered “PBS” a little over a year or two ago, so I don’t remember the strip in its pre-croc days … but I personally like pretty much every element of the strip. I love the crocs, but I like plain ol’ Rat and Pig strips too.

Stephan Pastis, “Pearls Before Swine” cartoonist: Mr. Media Interview

(The interview is divided up into three parts … be sure you don’t miss the last two!)

P.S. Be sure to check out some of the other interviews on the site … I see a few others I need to take the time to read, including interviews with Ray Billingsley (”Curtis”) and Larry Thomas (the “Soup Nazi” from Seinfeld).