“It would either be that or a 10-episode comedy series.” “I’m cocky enough to think I can write a 90-minute comedy movie,” Pastis said. Pastis would love to write an adult comedy film or series. “I like to challenge myself.”Īfter enjoying considerable success, the winner of the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award for Cartoonist of the Year for 2019 is hoping to move in a new direction after completing the seventh and final book in the “Timmy Failure” series.Īfter co-writing the “Timmy Failure” script with the film’s director, Tom McCarthy, Pastis, who is a huge fan of writer-director Judd Apatow (“Knocked Up,” “Funny People”), is ready to move on. Unlike many of his peers, Pastis has an impressively diverse resume.

“I do love my family, but I’m passionate about what I do professionally.”Įvery day, Pastis drives to a studio in Santa Rosa where he writes, draws and consumes endless cups of coffee. “I love it that much.”Įvery Sunday, he reconnects with his wife and two children who are 18 and 22. “And that’s not enough for me,” Pastis admitted. Pastis, 52, works 12-hour days six days a week. “That’s how I get at times,” Pastis said while calling from his Santa Rosa, California, office. Pastis’ fast-moving mind drifted toward his comic strip and what he could have been writing while he was stuck in tedium. While on the set of the film “Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made” in 2019, Pastis had a difficult time focusing while waiting for a scene to be shot. The creator of the cartoon strip “Pearls Before Swine” and the author of the children’s book series “Timmy Failure” is creatively restless. Stephan Pastis has an enviable type of attention deficit disorder.

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