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In the comments section of my Pearls Before Swine<\/em> post<\/a> from last week, Bob Andelman (A.K.A. “Mr. Media”)<\/a> posted a link to a podcast interview he recently conducted<\/a> with the strip’s creator, Stephan Pastis.\u00c2\u00a0 Ironically, given that my initial post was mainly about Pearls<\/em> 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<\/em> from papers.\u00c2\u00a0 Also of note are call-ins from two well-known fellow cartoonstists: Mark Tatulli of Lio, and Rick Kirkman of Baby Blues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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.\u00c2\u00a0 Ironically, given that my initial post was mainly about Pearls winning a readers’ pole and thus being added to the Winston-Salem … <\/p>\n