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and audiences are atomizing. I suspect comics will have less widespread cultural impact and make a lot less money. I'm old enough to find all this unsettling, but the world moves on. All the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and versatile, so I think they'll continue to find relevance one way or another. But they definitely won't be the same as what I grew up with.
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pursuits. Later, they recalled him as a "conservative child" â imaginative, but "not in a fantasy way", and certainly nothing like the character of Calvin that he later created. Watterson found avenues for his cartooning talents throughout primary and secondary school, creating high school-themed super hero comics with his friends and contributing cartoons and art to the school newspaper and yearbook.
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Facebook that Watterson had signed "the franchise over to my 'administration'". He then posted a comic with Calvin, Hobbes, and Opus all featured. The comic is signed by Watterson, though the degree of his involvement was speculative. Breathed posted another "Calvin County" strip featuring
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Personally, I like paper and ink better than glowing pixels, but to each his own. Obviously the role of comics is changing very fast. On the one hand, I don't think comics have ever been more widely accepted or taken as seriously as they are now. On the other hand, the mass media is disintegrating,
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This isn't as hard to understand as people try to make it. By the end of ten years, I'd said pretty much everything I had come there to say. It's always better to leave the party early. If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, ten, or twenty years, the
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that would enable him to use his space more efficiently and would almost require the papers to publish it as a half-page. Universal agreed that they would sell the strip as the half-page and nothing else, which garnered anger from papers and criticism for
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that was in place when he began drawing (and remained so, to varying degrees). The typical layout consists of three rows with eight total squares, which take up half a page if published with its normal size. Some newspapers are restricted with space for their Sunday features and reduce the size of
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at the end of the year. This was not a recent or an easy decision, and I leave with some sadness. My interests have shifted, however, and I believe I've done what I can do within the constraints of daily deadlines and small panels. I am eager to work at a more thoughtful pace, with fewer artistic
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sent reporters, in 1998 and 2003 respectively, but neither were able to make contact with the media-shy
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images on commercially sold mugs, stickers, and T-shirts would devalue the characters and their personalities. Watterson said that
Universal kept putting pressure on him and that he had signed his contract without fully perusing it because, as a new artist, he was happy just to find a syndicate
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book as an incentive, hoping to land an interview. Weingarten passed the book to
Watterson's parents, along with a message, and declared that he would wait in his hotel for as long as it took Watterson to contact him. Watterson's editor Lee Salem called the next day to tell Weingarten that the
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with a new artist. Watterson's position eventually won out and he was able to renegotiate his contract so that he would receive all rights to his work, but later added that the licensing fight exhausted him and contributed to the need for a nine-month sabbatical in 1991.
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story ostensibly detailing the "merger" of the two strips. Berkeley
Breathed included Hobbes in a November 27, 2017, strip as a stand-in for the character Steve Dallas. Hobbes has also returned in the June 9, 11, and 12, 2021, strips as a stand-in for Bill The Cat.
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willing to give him a chance (two other syndicates had previously turned him down). He added that the contract was so one-sided that, if
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is an honor I'll long be proud of, and I've greatly appreciated your support and indulgence over the last decade. Drawing this comic strip has been a privilege and a pleasure, and I thank you for giving me the
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would be wishing me dead and cursing newspapers for running tedious, ancient strips like mine instead of acquiring fresher, livelier talent. And I'd be agreeing with them. I think some of the reason
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the strip. One of the more common ways is to cut out the top two panels, which Watterson believed forced him to waste the space on throwaway jokes that did not always fit the strip.
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in honor of Richard Thompson, who was diagnosed in 2009. Watterson's syndicate revealed that the painting was the first new artwork of his that the syndicate has seen since
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1726:"An Incredible Ride To the End: An appreciation by Bill Watterson"
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The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
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2396:"Mental Floss Exclusive: Our Interview with Bill Watterson!"
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character Petey Otterloop, done by Watterson for the
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On November 9, 1995, Watterson announced the end of
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1285:"The Escapist Tragedy of 'Calvin and Hobbes'"
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2271:"The Grief That Made 'Peanuts' Good"
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2878:"Reuben Award Winners 1946âPresent"
2679:"Hobbes stands in for Bill The Cat"
2655:. BERKELEY BREATHED. Archived from
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1199:The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes
1193:The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes
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1027:Prize for Best Foreign Comic Book
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2596:. 20 Minutes. November 5, 2014.
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1848:"The Cheapening of the Comics"
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2487:The Art of Richard Thompson
1156:There's Treasure Everywhere
1120:The Revenge of the Baby-Sat
1114:Weirdos from Another Planet
1017:The Revenge of the Baby-Sat
1013:Best Comic Strip Collection
958:Best Syndicated Comic Strip
847:Exploring Calvin and Hobbes
760:The Art of Richard Thompson
603:creator Charles M. Schulz.
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2946:(interview), Cleveland
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3137:Dear Mr. Watterson
2962:on April 14, 2013.
2209:on August 14, 2007
1375:. March 29, 2021.
1069:2014: Grand Prix,
735:Dear Mr. Watterson
635:Schulz and Peanuts
581:The Comics Journal
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