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 ( born January 16, 1968 ) cartoonist

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.

When asked in an interview about whether his profession as an attorney inspired the humor in the comic, Stephan said, " I was very unhappy as a lawyer, and humor is a reaction to and defense against unhappiness.

In 1983, she married artist Stephan Weiss, who would later become co-CEO of the Donna Karan company.

* Stephan Groth ( 1971 –), artist

The mountain lends its name to an 1829 opera, Der Untersberg, by Johann Nepomuk ( 1783 – 1865 ), Baron of Poissl, and has inspired a series of works by German artist Stephan Hess.

The instrument was introduced to a wider audience by the German musician Stephan Micus ( in his albums Implosions, Life, and Ocean ) and the Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk, who used it as the primary instrument in three songs performed by Miyata for the soundtrack album to Drawing Restraint 9, a film by her contemporary media artist boyfriend Matthew Barney, about Japanese culture and whaling.

In Pearls Blows Up, Stephan says that he replaces some of the usual squiggle-marks indicating swear words with a poorly drawn picture of Darby Conley's head.

Aiding Pastis in the artistic elements of the strip was Darby Conley, creator of the comic strip Get Fuzzy.

The relentless and merciless riffing on classic comics ( i. e. a series where Osama bin Laden comes to live with the Family Circus, causing the parents, Billy, Jeffy, Dolly and PJ to be sent to Guantanamo Bay detention camp ) has earned Pastis the disdain of many comic artists, which Pastis referenced in a later storyline where the Pearls cast is not invited to the 75th anniversary crossover party of Blondie.

Despite the general idea of Pastis attempting to parody his history of offensive comic strips, an angry letter ran in an Oklahoma newspaper ( The Stillwater Newspress ), outraged that it was supposed to be considered humorous that someone would propose throwing a midget off a pier.

In 2009, a line of Pearls plush dolls was released by Aurora World, Inc., featuring four characters ( Rat, Pig, Zebra and Croc ) from the comic, to which Pastis jokingly said he would use for reference when unsure how to draw the characters.

Prior to creating Pearls Before Swine, Pastis worked as a lawyer in California.

In the Pearls Sells Out collection, Pastis explains that Zebra has three neighbors: The Zeeba Zeeba Eata fraternity house, Larry the Croc and his family, and Max and Zack, the Lions.

Pearls is notorious for its large amount of dark humor ; topics such as death, depression and human suffering overall are common themes, and Pastis has recalled receiving complaints, including hate mail and occasionally death threats from people who have been offended by his strips ; two strips that portrayed a llama United Nations diplomat named " Ataturk " who spits on other diplomats, prompted a letter to then-President George W. Bush from the Turkish Ambassador to the United States demanding an apology, seeing it as a mockery of former Turkish president Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

Pastis has mentioned in his treasuries that the cartoonists whom he mocks ( a trademark characteristic of Pearls ) often take the insults in good humor, even occasionally asking for an original strip.

Pastis calls it the single biggest controversy he has ever experienced in the history of Pearls.

In an interview on The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch that aired February 7, 2008, Pastis mentioned that he had been approached by producers about an animated TV series based on Pearls.

Conley also drew Pastis in his strip twice during a week where the two cartoonists decided to play a prank on their syndicate by having Conley copy and paste Get Fuzzy characters over Pearls strips.

* 1960 – Batem, French comic book artist

* Adrian Alphona, Canadian comic book artist

Jonathan Rosenberg, author / artist of the humorous science fiction webcomic Scenes from a Multiverse, references an ansible powered by a quantum-entangled ferret in the 2012-Jun-25 edition of the comic.

* 1971 – Michael Turner, American comic book artist ( d. 2008 )

His younger brother Elliot Caplin also became a comic strip creator, best known for co-creating the soap opera strip The Heart of Juliet Jones with artist Stan Drake, and conceiving the comic strip character Broom-Hilda with cartoonist Russell Myers.

He remains the only cartoonist to be embraced by TV ; no other comic artist to date has come close to Capp's televised exposure.

From 1994 to 1996, Marvel Comics published a monthly Beavis and Butt-Head comic under the Marvel Absurd imprint by a variety of writers, but with each issue drawn by artist Rick Parker.

Bill Holbrook ( born 1958 ) is an American cartoonist and webcomic writer and artist, best known for his syndicated comic strip On the Fastrack.

" The actress Minnie Maddern Fiske wrote in Harper's Weekly that " a constantly increasing body of cultured, artistic people are beginning to regard the young English buffoon, Charles Chaplin, as an extraordinary artist, as well as a comic genius.

" Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire ( 2001 ) had a disappointing box office performance but is considered to be a " cult favorite " because of its unique art and animation style inspired by comic book artist Mike Mignola.

The Swiss teacher, author and caricature artist Rodolphe Töpffer ( Geneva, 1799 – 1846 ) is considered the father of the modern comic strips.

While the Switcheroonie was a one-time publicity stunt, for one artist to take over a feature from its originator is an old tradition in newspaper cartooning ( as it is in the comic book industry ).

Elwes appeared in Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Belgian artist Hergé's popular comic strip The Adventures of Tintin.

Shortly before quitting, he moonlighted as a comic book artist, contributing half the artwork for a one-shot comic book ( the other half of the art being done by story partner Jack Hannah ) titled Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold.

Barks transitioned his skills as an animator artist and storyman into those of a comic artist and writer, notably in his longer adventure tales.

* Borgia, by Milo Manara ( artist ) & Alejandro Jodorowsky ( writer ), a comic in the form of serialized graphic novel, depicting the story of the Borgia family.

He is a talented artist, and has worked on the Captain America comic book published in the Marvel universe.

Adams was named best international comic strip artist of 1995 in the Adamson Awards given by the Swedish Academy of Comic Art.

* 1918 – John Celardo, American comic strip artist ( d. 2012 )

* 1978 – Tony Moore, American comic book artist

DirkJan is a comic, the creation of Dutch author and artist Mark Retera.

* 2012 – Sheldon Moldoff, Golden Age and Silver Age comic book artist ( b. 1920 )