![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s in spite of the cartoonist’s frequent travels to promote his books. Wandering his three-and-a-half acre Santa Rosa property and two-story home with his faithful springer spaniel Edie, Pastis is a living picture of domestic bliss. Then he hopes to launch a new series about a little girl.Īside from his career, the real Pastis is also a happy family man, married to his wife, Staci, a fourth-generation Santa Rosan, for 23 years. The sixth “Timmy Failure” book, which mixes drawings and text in a format similar to the popular “Wimpy Kid” series, comes out this month, and Pastis plans to put out two more. ![]() “I can say that much, but I can’t say which studio and I can’t say who the co-writer is.” It’s also too soon to say when the movie might go into production. “I sold the first Timmy Failure book to a major studio and I have been working on the script with a co-writer,” Pastis said. The real-life Pastis is the creator of both the long popular “Pearls Before Swine” syndicated comic strip, running since 2002, and a kids’ book series about the rather arrogant and inept boy detective Timmy Failure, introduced in 2013, which is in the very early stages of a possible live-action film adaptation. One is a successful cartoonist and author, and the other is a comic strip character. ![]()
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