He practiced law in the San Francisco Bay area from 1993 to 2002. Although he had always wanted to be a syndicated cartoonist, Pastis realized that the odds of syndication were slim, so he entered UCLA Law School in 1990 and became an attorney instead. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989 with a degree in political science. Stephan Pastis was born in 1968 and raised in San Marino, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. With perfectly paced visual humor, Stephan Pastis gets you snorting with laughter, then slyly carries the joke a beat further - or sweetens it with an unexpected poignant moment - making this a comics-inspired story (the first in a new series) that truly stands apart from the pack. From the offbeat creator of' Pearls Before Swine' comes an endearingly bumbling hero in a caper whose peerless hilarity is accompanied by a whodunit twist. And it doesn't include Rollo Tookus, who is so obsessed with getting into 'Stanfurd' that he can't carry out a no-brainer spy mission. Of course, Timmy's plan does not include the four-foot-tall female whose name shall not be uttered. Throw in the Failuremobile - Timmy's mom's Segway - and what you have is Total Failure, Inc., a global enterprise destined to make Timmy so rich his mother won't have to stress out about the bills anymore. Add his impressively lazy business partner, a very large polar bear named Total. Take eleven-year-old Timmy Failure - the clueless, comically self-confident CEO of the best detective agency in town, perhaps even the nation. Created by 'New York Times' best-selling cartoonist Stephan Pastis. Meet 'detective' Timmy Failure, star of the kids' comedy of the year.

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