![]() ![]() (STEPHAN PASTIS/Distributed by Universal Uclick ) As a result, he has started dating again.” The first panel advances the fictional action: “Stephan Pastis’s wife has left him. It might have ended there, but then: Last Sunday’s strip appeared. Only Pastis’s comic alter-ego was suddenly single. ![]() “We had to say to the agent: ‘No-no- no! That’s not real,’ ” the cartoonist tells Comic Riffs. The agent had read the cartoonist’s January strips that had a running comic premise: Stephan Pastis - or rather, “Stephan Pastis” - was being forced out of his house by the never-pictured “Staci Pastis.” The cartoon couple was separating, and perhaps divorcing. “Our real estate agent called Staci and said: ‘I have to tell you, I saw what you’re going through here … ,’ “ recounts the cartoonist. ![]() That’s because Staci is married to Stephan Pastis, the sometimes mischievous creator of the comic “Pearls Before Swine.” Which means her life is also intertwined with “Stephan Pastis,” the cartoonist’s meta-persona who appears IN “Pearls Before Swine.” The agent had read what was up, and sympathized with Staci, and also thought perhaps her realty expertise might soon be of service. She phoned Staci Pastis, who lives in Northern California, and spoke of the matter at hand both personally and professionally. THE FIRST call of concern came from the real estate agent. ![]()
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