Fave Fan Anecdotes: 'Pearls Before Swine' & 'Hi and Lois'

STEPHAN PASTIS, creator, "Pearls Before Swine":

None of my strips ever received such a strong reaction as this one (about Israeli children killed in a bombing). It's from December 2003. ...Personally, I don't think I'll ever do a more meaningful strip. It generated over 2,500 e-mails -- way, way more than anything else I've ever done.

Because of the Internet, many of the e-mails were from people in Israel. Some had lost children in terrorist attacks. Some had close calls. Incredibly moving.


See the comic strip here.