Talk:Stephan Pastis

Problems

I've wikified part of this article. While doing so, I found some errors. For instance, our article said Mr Pastis "was a lawyer, practicing insurance law" but in fact he "was a litigation attorney in San Francisco from 1993 to 2002"[1] who spent a lot of time "defending insurance firms against claims from the 1994 Northridge earthquake."[2] The list of his earlier strips here does not mention "Rat", but includes one (The Billbo Chronicles) our article does not mention. And so on.

I've put a {{unreferencedsect}} tag on the "Pearls Before Swine" section of the article. Unless someone comes up with good sources for those statements, we should rewrite it from scratch.

Cheers, CWC 13:53, 10 April 2007

(UTC) 11-23-09 none of Rat's slanderous accusations are on here as they were in today's strip. lol

Picture deletion

Why is the picture up for speedy deletion? If it's a picture of Mr. Pastis, and it's copyright is ok, why get rid of it? No reason is given. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.131.243.172 (talk) 23:19, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

I don't know. If it really was good then put it back up, if you know where it is. C. Phoebus —Preceding unsigned comment added by Captain Phoebus (talk • contribs) 14:47, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Keep a wary eye on this one

Oh my. Pastis has Rat editing his bio on Wikipedia in the strip for Monday, November 23, 2009 (and possibly later in the week) so extra attention should be focused here to prevent motivated fans from making Rat's pronouncements come true. - Dravecky (talk) 06:32, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Killjoy. ;)202.168.104.66 (talk) 08:20, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Notice the immediately following entry on this Talk page, authored by Rat... (LOL) 152.17.114.223 (talk) 18:24, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

I think a cartonist with a good sense of humor like Pastis would enjoy having his cartoons make it into the real world (that is if cyber is more real than print). If someone can do it without getting the changes immediately revoked, I think "Rat's" edits should be added for at least the week. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jkjk14 (talk • contribs) 04:28, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Info on high school and tattoos should be added

At San Marino High School, Pastis was the only senior to not get a date for his high-school prom, and instead sat at home and cried while watching St. Elmo's Fire. He also has the lyrics to "Like A Virgin" tattooed on his uvula. This is important info and should be in the article. -- Rat (talk) 13:53, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

[3]evidence here —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.17.114.223 (talk) 18:44, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

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Actually the lyrics are on his thigh. 12.162.122.6 (talk) 15:21, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

In the strip, yes. But someone thought "uvula" was correct funnier. -- Zsero (talk) 15:25, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

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Pearls Before Swine

As the comic already has its own article, is there really a need for the rather large section on it in this article? Seems like any information there could just be merged into the comic's article and replaced here with a link. Tiggum (talk) 04:33, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Awards

Under the awards section of the article I'd like to suggest an edit to include the 2015 Ruben awards. According to theNational Cartoonist Society's page for the 2015 Rueben Awards, Pastis won for Newspaper Comic Strip. -anonymous 6/8/2015 3:56 AM EST — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.189.198.209 (talk) 07:57, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

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extra

Yes, several times Mr. ( or Mrs. ) Pastis was had their pronouns changed — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.191.234.155 (talk) 17:50, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

Extra

Yes, Mrs. Pastis' pronouns have been changed several times. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.204.14.22 (talk) 18:08, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

Timmy Failure Predecessors

Mike Kunkel's 2002 comic Herobear and the Kid is somewhat along the same lines (Boy accompanied by an imaginary living polar bear). Yet, both borrow extensively from Bill Waterson's Calvin and Hobbes 2003:CA:3F0C:730D:4451:B7A8:515A:4FC2 (talk) 23:04, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

Trubble Town

Could someone add info about these? 70.36.193.220 (talk) 00:36, 17 September 2023 (UTC)