![]() ![]() I named her “Libby,” which I then shorted to “Lib.” (Hint, hint: It’s almost “Bill” backwards.) The idea I proposed was that instead of having me get hit on the head, I would pretend that Pearls was being drawn by a precocious second grader who thought my art was crap. But it’s another thing to propose an idea to Bill Watterson. ![]() Frightened because it’s one thing to write a strip read by millions of people. What followed was a series of back-and-forth emails where we discussed what the strips would be about, and how we would do them. ![]() (Although he also doesn’t like things like scanners and phone calls, as Pastis learned.) In a blog post that has been viewed some 2 million times, Pastis revealed how he and Watterson had come up with a scheme where Pearls Before Swine would be drawn by a guest artist-a young girl-and how Watterson was fully on board with it. Pastis teased that the answer would come on Saturday and it turned out…it was Watterson. ![]() Last week there was some intrigue over whether some guest strips on Stephen Pastis’s Pearls Before Swine comic strip were actually drawn by Bill Watterson. ![]()
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