Stephan Pastis on Pearls Before Swine, the comic business, and his new book Timmy Failure

Summary: Stephan Pastis is having a decent February. The artist behind Pearls Before Swine was just nominated this past week for the Reuben (the comic strip equivalent of the Oscar) and next week he will publish his first children's book, Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made. I decided to catch up with Pastis during his white-hot month of success and we had a great conversation. We talked about how his iPad app (released a year ago) performed, becoming a children's book author, the secrets to success bestowed upon him by Wimpy Kid mega-author Jeff Kinney, the selection process he used to decide on one of the 10 publishers who bid on his book, the future of Pearls and much, much more. If you are a comics fan or simply want to hear the story behind the book series that could become the next-big-thing children's book franchise, have a listen! Those of you who would like to hear my first conversation with Stephan from January 2012, it can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/nextmarket/conversation-with-cartoonist If you like this podcast, please subscribe using one of the following channels: iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/nextmarket/id579455690 RSS: feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/JEcj or Stitcher: app.stitcher.com/browse/feed/32010/episodes