This act is commonly criticized by modern cartoonists including Watterson and Pearls Before Swines Stephan Pastis.

Stephan Pastis has lamented that the " unwritten " censorship code is still " stuck somewhere in the 1950s.

Stephan Pastis, creator of Pearls Before Swine, credits Adams for launching his career as a cartoonist.

* January 16 – Stephan Pastis, American cartoonist

* Stephan Pastis, comic artist, Pearls Before Swine

For the 1997 April Fool's Day Comic strip switcheroo, Dilbert creator Scott Adams swapped cartoons with Keane ; and Stephan Pastis drew a series in which Family Circus " invaded " Pearls Before Swine in 2007.

* Pearls Before Swine ( comics ), a comic strip by American cartoonist Stephan Pastis

Pearls Before Swine is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Stephan Pastis, who was formerly a lawyer in San Francisco, California.

Stephan Pastis has also mentioned that the incongruity between the cute characters and the dark themes surrounding them is a source of humor in the strip.

Because Stephan Pastis was once unable to draw lions, these particular predators were not shown in the strip until May 31, 2007, when two were shown moving next door to Zebra, on the opposite side from the crocodiles.

In the treasury The Crass Menagerie, Stephan Pastis remarks that the Guard Duck has become so popular that he's become a sixth main character ( after Rat, Pig, Zebra, Goat, and the crocs ).

Stephan Pastis appears self-reflexively in the strip.

In an introduction on one of his books, Stephan Pastis wrote that one " Pearls " strip was hated by Lou Gehrig fans because in one strip ( March 3, 2003 ), Pig thought it was a coincidence that Lou Gehrig would die of a disease that had the same name as himself, not knowing that the disease was named after Gehrig.

Stephan Thomas Pastis ( pronounced " Stefen Passtiss ") ( born January 16, 1968 ) is an American cartoonist and the creator of the comic strip Pearls Before Swine.

In his 2009 treasury Pearls Blows Up, 2000s cartoonist Stephan Pastis of Pearls Before Swine, who cites Schulz as one of his many influences, suggested in relation to a series of strips paying homage to Peanuts with baseball, that Shermy as well as Violet may have died in some way after a game, commenting that " I'm fairly certain the games in Peanuts weren't played to the death ... Shermy and Violet did seem to disappear at some point.

Over the week of July 7, 2008, Pearls Before Swine parodied the tendency of Funky Winkerbean towards killing off main characters when it killed off Rat and the strip's own author, Stephan Pastis ( the two would later be returned to the strip via the intervention of United Feature Syndicate ), even utilizing Batiuk's representation of the Angel of Death.

* Stephan Pastis, an American cartoonist

* Pearls Before Swine cartoonist Stephan Pastis ( known for using other comic characters in his strip ) portrayed Nancy and Sluggo as extras to replace Rat and Goat during the 2002 " Pearls Labor Dispute ".

* Pearls Before Swine ( comic strip ), an American comic strip written and illustrated by Stephan Pastis

While characters making guest appearances in other comic strips is not an unusual occurrence ( Dan Piraro's Bizarro and Stephan Pastis ' Pearls Before Swine do it often ), this was the most ambitious in scale.

On April 1, 2005, Stephan Pastis of Pearls Before Swine, Bill Amend of FoxTrot, and Darby Conley of Get Fuzzy all ran the same comic dialogue in their respective strips, but with their own core characters saying the lines.

Comic strip writer Stephan Pastis often includes feghoots in his strip Pearls Before Swine

Richmond returned the favor by caricaturing the strip's creator Stephan Pastis inside a garbage can, in a 2006 issue of Mad.

* Stephan Ebn ( born 1978 ): drummer and music producer

Rossdale was born in Kilburn, London, the son of Barbara Stephan ( née Bowie ) and Douglas Rossdale, a doctor.

* Stephan Szpak-Fleet ( born 1979 ), Polish-born American actor

Stephan A. Hoeller ( November 27, 1931 ) was born in Budapest, Hungary into a family of Austro-Hungarian nobility.

Stephan Micus ( born January 19, 1953 ) is a German musician and composer, whose musical style is heavily influenced by his study of traditional instruments and musical techniques from Japan, India, South America, and other countries around the world.

Stephan was born in Stolp ( Słupsk ), Pomerania, in the Kingdom of Prussia.

* Stephan Pace ( born 1918 )

Stephan (" Steff ") Eberharter ( born March 24, 1969 ) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria.

Patrick Stephan Kluivert (; born 1 July 1976 ) is a Dutch former footballer, currently head coach of the youth side of FC Twente.

Patrick Stephan Kluivert was born on 1 July 1976 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Stephan Douglas Jenkins ( born September 27, 1964 in Indio, California ), is an American musician best known as the lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist for Third Eye Blind.

* Stephan Beckenbauer ( born 1968 ), German footballer, son of Franz Beckenbauer

Martin Stephan was born August 13, 1777 in Stramberg, Moravia, presently the Czech Republic, of Austrian, German, and Czech parents.

* Stephan El Shaarawy ( born 27 October 1992 ), Italian footballer.

Stephan Dahl ( born 29 September 1971, in Wuppertal, Germany ) is a British academic and senior lecturer at the University of Hull having previously taught marketing at Middlesex University in London, United Kingdom.

Gertrude's youngest daughter, Maria Romanovna of Halicz, born from her third marriage, married Joachim of Guthkeled, son of Ban Stephan IV of Zagreb, the former Hungarian National Captain ( German: Landeshauptmanns ) in Styria.

Stephan Hansen Stephanius ( July 23, 1599 – April 22, 1650 ), born in Copenhagen, was a Danish royal historiographer and professor in Sorø.

Paulo Salim Maluf, the son of Lebanese Christian immigrants Salim Farah Maluf and Maria Stephan Maluf, was born in São Paulo, and graduated 1954 in engineering at the University of São Paulo ( USP ), where coincidentally he was a colleague of the late Mário Covas, another important Brazilian politician who would later become one of his biggest political rivals.

* Theodor Hausmann, OSB ( born 1963 ), abbot of the Benedictine abbey St. Stephan ( de )

Stephan Maigaard Andersen ( born 26 November 1981 ) is a Danish professional football player, who plays as a goalkeeper for Évian in the Ligue 1.

Stephan Vuckovic ( born June 22, 1972 in Reutlingen ) is an athlete from Germany, who competes in triathlon.

Dr. Brad Stephan Gregory ( born 28 May 1963 in Woodstock, Illinois ) is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame.

Theodore of Corsica ( August 25, 1694 – December 11, 1756 ), born Theodor Stephan Freiherr von Neuhoff, was a German adventurer who was briefly King of Corsica.