![]() ![]() It's the same site where Pastis' work appears. He recommended her to his syndicate, and they accepted her cartoon, "The Best Medicine," for their blog. ![]() At a comic-con he was struck by the work of teenage cartoonist Izzy Ehnes. Recently, Pastis had a chance to help out a young cartoonist himself. ![]() "I took a photo with him that I'm staring at right now," Pastis said. Pastis showed Schulz a strip he was working on at the time, featuring Rat, "based on my exploits in the law life." The veteran cartoonist went through it and "very lightly sort of critiqued it." And then Schulz went through the comics page of the San Francisco Chronicle, making a comment or two about every strip on the page. "I'm sure he just wanted to sit and relax that day, but he could not have been nicer." ![]() "He gave me tons of advice, and was way more helpful than I had any right to ask for," Pastis said. The legendary cartoonist - whose ''Peanuts'' books had inspired Pastis to draw cartoons from the age of 7 or 8 - and the self-described "sort of nobody novice" sat and talked for about an hour. Pastis, whose grouchy/sweet strip is known for its talking animals and silly puns, was working in San Francisco and had read in a newspaper article that Schulz ate every day in a café in Santa Rosa, Calif., just an hour's drive away. Where: Northshire Bookstore, 424 Broadway, Saratoga Springs See More Collapse What: talks about his work, takes questions and shows the audience how to draw his characters. ![]()
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