Stephan Pastis (1968) American cartoonist
Source: Strip deals wry Pearls of wisdom https://www2.ljworld.com/news/2006/dec/24/strip_deals_wry_pearls_wisdom/?living (December 24, 2006)
“I have always loved playing around with words. I didn’t know it was called poetry. I was just an innocent kid messing around with words when an adult said ‘You’re a poet, be published or be damned’.”
On the realization that he was a poet in “Interview with Benjamin Zephaniah” https://www.writersandartists.co.uk/writers/advice/37/a-writers-toolkit/interviews-with-authors/interview-with-benjamin-zephaniah in Writers & Artists
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