Stephan Pastis Podcast (With Guests!)

In the comments section of my Pearls Before Swine post from last week, Bob Andelman (A.K.A. “Mr. Media”) posted a link to a podcast interview he recently conducted with the strip’s creator, Stephan Pastis.  Ironically, given that my initial post was mainly about Pearls winning a readers’ pole and thus being added to the Winston-Salem Journal, the most interesting (and animated) part of the interview is Pastis’ discussing his, and many other cartoonists’, well-justified vitriol for those same readers’ poles, when used to determine what strips should be dropped from papers.  Also of note are call-ins from two well-known fellow cartoonstists: Mark Tatulli of Lio, and Rick Kirkman of Baby Blues.