About me
Stephan Pastis is the creator of the syndicated comic strip Pearls Before Swine, which appears in over 900 newspapers. There have been more than 40 Pearls book collections published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. In 2003, 2006, and 2014, the National Cartoonists Society named Pearls the Best Newspaper Comic Strip, and in 2019, Stephan won the Society's highest honor, the Reuben, for Cartoonist of the Year. He is also the creator of the Timmy Failure book series, the Trubble Town graphic novel series, and the middle-grade book Looking Up, as well as being co-writer of the Disney movie Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made. He lives in Northern California and is really good at playing Boggle With Friends on his phone.