Pittsburgh’s fearless features reporter Rege Behe talked “Littsburgh” with Stephan Pastis after his recent interview with him for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review — look for that feature in the Trib later this week!
And be sure to catch Pastis at Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures on Sunday, February 21st.
Long before he became a cartoonist, Stephan Pastis came to Pittsburgh to visit his godparents. During his childhood Pastis spent a couple of summer vacations in Verona.
“I went back and saw the house that I went to both of those summers,” says Pastis, who appears Feb. 21 at Carnegie Library Lecture Hall in Oakland as a guest of Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures’ Kids and Teens.
Pastis, the creator of the “Pearls Before Swine” comic strip and author of the Timmy Failure books for children, has also spent time on the South Side, “hitting one bar after another.” He’s visited the Andy Warhol Museum on the North Side and attended a Pittsburgh Pirates game.
“I love Pittsburgh,” he says. “Pittsburgh is truly one of my favorite cities. I don’t know if it’s that link to being a little kid that makes me think of summer vacations.”
The California native does have one request for his upcoming visit.
“It will be far from summer when I get there,” Pastis says. “So if you can get rid of the snow, that would be great.”
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