To Pastis, the project meant not just a co-screenwriting credit, but an education in filmmaking from an award-winning professional. agency with his partner, an imaginary 1,500-pound polar bear, and his sidekick Rollo Tookus to solve low-key crimes while learning some life lessons along the way. In the film, a deadpan, quirky 11-year-old boy named Timmy Failure, played by Winslow Fegley, believes he’s the best detective in Portland, Oregon. Pastis also has written and illustrated a new prequel to the series, due to be published by Disney Hyperion in April.Īnd now, at 52, he has co-written a live-action film version of the first book in the series, “Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made,” which starts streaming Friday on Disney+. In 2013, he introduced his children’s book series “Timmy Failure,” about a boy detective, and eventually produced seven volumes from Candlewick Press.
Today the strip is running in almost 900 newspapers and has been collected in 37 books and 11 treasury editions.
In 2002, he syndicated his daily comic strip “Pearls Before Swine,” based on characters he first sketched in law school. Santa Rosa’s Stephan Pastis is a man who never stops trying to do something bigger and better.
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