Watterson is known as reclusive and private there’s just one known picture of him in existence. Pastis regularly features himself as a character in his strip and enjoys touring the country, promoting it and his “Timmy Failure” series of children’s books. I think I literally stood up at the couch,” Pastis recalls.
Watterson and Pastis finally exchanged e-mails and Watterson suggested doing something together. “Several years ago, when Stephan did one of his strips that mocked his own drawing ability and mentioned my strip in comparison, I thought it might be funny for me to ghost ‘Pearls’ sometime, just to flip it all on its head,” Watterson said.
Watterson is a longtime “Pearls” fan, the “Calvin and Hobbes” cartoonist told The Washington Post. Some time earlier, he had been told by a mutual friend, Washington Post cartoonist Nick Galifianakis, that Watterson had been wanting to get in touch. He and Watterson first got in touch April 11, the day Pastis had a strip that falsely portrayed him as the author of “Calvin and Hobbes” in order to get a woman in bed. “What if he thought, ‘He’s not as funny as I thought he was?’ At every point, I thought he would go away, and what proof I would have that this ever happened?”įor Pastis, who usually works several months in advance, the strips came together remarkably quickly.
“Just working with him, I was so scared at all points,” he told CNN in a phone interview. “Calvin and Hobbes” creator returns for a comics cameoįor Pastis, a huge “Calvin and Hobbes” fan, the partnership was never less than intimidating. And, as any reader of Pastis’ comic strip “Pearls Before Swine” knows, Pastis has a pretty wild imagination.īut there was the proof, in black and white (and, in many newspapers and online, full color): “Pearls’ ” Rat and Pig sharing panels with the work of “Calvin and Hobbes” legend Bill Watterson, creator of the mischievous boy, his stuffed tiger and countless space- and time-defying alter egos.
It’s not a collaboration Stephan Pastis imagined in his wildest imagination.
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