105 Quotes by Stephan Pastis

I don’t like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I’d have to pencil it first.

I put Post-It notes everywhere to remind me of everything. I stick a ton of them on my computer monitor, telephone, and wallet. The problem now is that there are so many of them that my mind has blocked them all out. So I now need Post-It notes to remind me to look at my Post-It notes.

You can write a little and can draw a little, but there’s necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.

Basically, I learned to read by reading ‘Peanuts,’ just wanting to know what they were saying.

Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It’s darker, more cutting.

One funny image can sometimes save an otherwise mediocre strip. At least that’s what I tell myself so I don’t feel quite as crappy when I’ve just wasted four hours drawing and coloring a Sunday strip.

Scott Adams: From him, I learned how to write a three-panel comic. Probably the best pure writer on the comics page.

When people bore me, I close my eyes and try to remember the order the Seven Dwarfs marched in. But it’s not always the dwarfs I think about. Sometimes aI try to list all of the Canadian provinces.

I seem to be able to get away with pun strips if I add a panel at the end where I somehow indicate that I know it’s a bad pun.