Stephan Pastis — Pearls Jubilee: The Best, Worst, and Most Angrifying Pearls Before Swine Comic Strips - with Gene Weingarten — at the Wharf
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The most explosive Pearls Before Swine book of all time, Pearls Jubilee celebrates 25 years of the iconic comic strip by bestselling, award-winning author Stephan Pastis, including the author's own selections of his funniest, most controversial, and most heartwarming comics in his catalog, complete with commentary, fan mail, strips that were censored in newspapers, and a treasure trove of materials that will thrill longtime Pearls Before Swine fans and be the perfect introduction for new readers as well. A true celebration of all things Pearls!
Arriving on the 25th anniversary of one of America's all-time most popular comic strips, Pearls Jubilee is a celebration of all things Pearls Before Swine. From the thematic top 10 lists hand-selected by the strip's creator, Stephan Pastis, to crossover comics by other prominent voices from the funny papers, essays by the author and collaborators, fan mail, hate mail, photos, and other entertaining ephemera, Pearls Jubilee will delight the longtime reader and entice a new generation of fans. The book includes hundreds of comic strips from throughout the feature's storied run in newspapers and tell the stories behind each one and explore how the comic went from a pipe dream by a disaffected lawyer to a worldwide cultural phenomenon that has entertained millions of readers around the world.
Stephan Pastis is an attorney turned cartoonist. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and the UCLA School of Law, he worked as a lawyer before trying his hand at cartooning. Pastis lives in the Bay Area with his wife and two children.
Patsis will be in conversation with Gene Weingarten, a former longtime Washington Post writer and humor columnist and author of the nonfiction story collection "The Fiddler in the Subway." He has won two Pulitzer prizes for feature writing.
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