In his comic strip “Pearls Before Swine,” Stephan Pastis playfully stresses the importance of local newspapers using the best tool in his arsenal: conversations between a cartoon rat, pig and ...

One year and 24 pages later, the comic book “Pretzel Rat” was released, named after Wojtkowski’s first rat, Pretzel. WFTS “Pretzel is a mail carrier,” said Wojtkowski.