youmightfindyourself:

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, 10 or 20 years, the people now “grieving” for “Calvin and Hobbes” 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 “Calvin and Hobbes” still finds an audience today is because I chose not to run the wheels off it.

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An artwork can stay frozen in time, but I stumble through the years like everyone else. I think the deeper fans understand that, and are willing to give me some room to go on with my life.
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youmightfindyourself:

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, 10 or 20 years, the people now “grieving” for “Calvin and Hobbes” 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 “Calvin and Hobbes” still finds an audience today is because I chose not to run the wheels off it.

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An artwork can stay frozen in time, but I stumble through the years like everyone else. I think the deeper fans understand that, and are willing to give me some room to go on with my life.

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    I’ll add one of my favorite quotes of all time, also by Bill Watterson:
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    Watterson Week continues.
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    Most favorite cartoonist ever. Simply the best. (I have every collection except the book “Something Under the Bed is...
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    *coff* Garfield *coff*
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    People nowadays need to learn from him. Undeniably, Watterson is one of the best comic artists in history.
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    This man is extraordinary.
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    This man single-handedly enriched my childhood. Reading his comics builds character XD