Comic Jeff Foxworthy worked in computer maintenance at IBM. Boston guitarist Tom Scholz was a product design engineer for Polaroid. But the author of the “Timmy Failure” children’s chapter book series isn’t the only entertainer to choose art over commerce.Īrtist Paul Gauguin was a stockbroker. Before becoming a cartoonist, the creator of the comic strip “Pearls Before Swine” was an attorney. Stephan Pastis, 52, can relate to the lyrics from the epic Led Zeppelin classic. Throughout the process, Bill was funny and flexible and easy to work with.“Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run, there’s still time to change the road you’re on.” Led Zeppelin, “Stairway to Heaven.” And that the whole thing would seem like a wisp of my imagination," Pastis wrote. And that Bill would disappear back into the ether. "At every point in the process, I feared I would say something wrong. Libby, or "Lib" for short (which is almost "Bill" backwards) filled in for Pastis, a character in his own strip, after he was hit on the head. That email led to Watterson drawing the middle panel in Pearls Before Swine Wednesday through Friday this past week, "ghost drawing" the artwork provided by the character Libby. "It was just a silly idea, and I didn’t know Stephan, so I never pursued it, and years went by." "Several years ago, when Stephan did one of his strips that mocked his own drawing ability and mentioned my strip in comparison, I thought it might be funny for me to ghost Pearls sometime, just to flip it all on its head," Watterson told Cavna. Watterson gave his side of the story to Michael Cavna at the Washington Post, and as it turns out, Watterson already had the idea to team with Pastis before he received that email. " Pastis wrote, ".He had a comic strip idea he wanted to run by me."
And he had a great sense of humor about the strip I had done, and was very funny, and oh yeah. Bill Watterson really exists? And he sends email? And he’s communicating with me? But he was. Just getting an email from Bill Watterson is one of the most mind-blowing, surreal experiences I have ever had.
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