If I had my way, there would be a lot more Rat, and the strip would be a lot less popular.” “I’ve always liked writing for Rat,” Pastis says. Pearls has been a mainstay of newspapers for more than a decade, offering trenchant commentary on human foibles through its large cast of talking animals ranging from the naive Pig to the idiotic alligator Larry to the eternally sleazy Rat, Pastis’ favorite. Walking into a bookstore and doing a signing is like going from night to day - you go from being a hermit to the center of attention in a large crowd.” “You’re in a room by yourself, and you know that people see the strip, but the reality to the people reading it is very different from your reality - it’s like being a stand-up comedian who can’t see the audience. “When you’re a cartoonist, you basically see nobody,” says Pastis, who appears at Quail Ridge Books and Music Monday night, in a call from his home in Santa Rosa, Calif. As the mind behind the hit newspaper comic Pearls Before Swine, Stephan Pastis appreciates the time he’s able to get away from the drawing board and interact with his fans.
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