Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis

Stephan Pastis is the creator of the internationally syndicated Pearls Before Swine. He has been nominated for multiple Reuben Awards, and was the winner of the Best Newspaper Comic Strip from the National Cartoonist Society in 2003 and 2006. He became a New York Times bestselling author in 2013 with the debut of his first children’s book Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made, published by Candlewick Press.