Nachikethass… Sorry. I didn’t call you out by name, cos I figured you were joking….it’s just that somebody, mentions Pastis almost every time there’s a good pun in a comic, and often when there’s one in a comment forum.If it weren’t you, it would be the next person.And then others will applaud or second the comment.
As a person who’s been making horrid puns since before Pastis was_born…._ (sigh) …(but who would never claim to be as talented…)
…. and a fan of stupid puns anyplace she can find them, I’ve seen people post, and have been asked, myself, so many variations of “Did Pastis really write this?” and “Did you/he learn from Pastis?” that if I were a cartoonist, I’d feel put down…as though everyone thinks I didn’t know how to write a good pun till I studied “Pearls Before Swine.”
It’s like writing great poetry all your life…but starting about 2010, being asked, every time, in jest, whether you were channeling a maybe newer, and yes, possibly better, poet…or even whether he actually wrote it for you.After a while it would grow… um… I’d think unfunny.
Nachikethass… Sorry. I didn’t call you out by name, cos I figured you were joking….it’s just that somebody, mentions Pastis almost every time there’s a good pun in a comic, and often when there’s one in a comment forum.If it weren’t you, it would be the next person.And then others will applaud or second the comment.
As a person who’s been making horrid puns since before Pastis was_born…._ (sigh) …(but who would never claim to be as talented…)
…. and a fan of stupid puns anyplace she can find them, I’ve seen people post, and have been asked, myself, so many variations of “Did Pastis really write this?” and “Did you/he learn from Pastis?” that if I were a cartoonist, I’d feel put down…as though everyone thinks I didn’t know how to write a good pun till I studied “Pearls Before Swine.”
It’s like writing great poetry all your life…but starting about 2010, being asked, every time, in jest, whether you were channeling a maybe newer, and yes, possibly better, poet…or even whether he actually wrote it for you.After a while it would grow… um… I’d think unfunny.