![]() ![]() ![]() “It’s the most personal thing in this,” he tells Comic Riffs. The Northern California-based cartoonist is especially proud of the videos. “I put so many hours into this, it made no sense, dollar for dollar,” Pastis tells Comic Riffs on Tuesday, noting that he spent more than a year working on aspects of the app. The app, produced with Chronicle Books, goes live in Apple’s iTunes store today. ![]() With that sense of purpose, Pastis has just launched the first “Pearls Before Swine” iPad app - an elaborate project that features not only 250 color strips, but also “PBS” animations by RingTales, more than a hundred audio commentaries and nearly two-dozen “intimate” videos. There is no standing still on the shifting sands of syndication. And Pastis believes that if newspaper cartoonists aren’t moving into new digital realms, then they’re slipping behind. The “Pearls Before Swine” creator is waxing honest about the state of syndicated cartooning - an industry still groping, like newspapers themselves, to adapt to new business models. “IF YOU AREN’T IN IT, you don’t know just how lost we are,” says Stephan Pastis, punching his words to punctuate his point. (PEARLS BEFORE SWINE / courtesy of Stephan Pastis & Chronicle Books/.) SCENES FROM AN APP: From the mind - and hand - of Stephan Pastis. ![]()
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