In early 2010, Watterson was interviewed by The Plain Dealer on the 15th anniversary of the end of Calvin and Hobbes. Explaining his decision to discontinue the strip, he said,
"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 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. I've never regretted stopping when I did."
Levi Williams
Fair enough, I guess.
Jordan Rodriguez
but haters of the simpsons' longevity are just "angry nerds in their basements" according to their writers
Carson Baker
>It's always better to leave the party early. JUST WHAT ARE YOU IMPLYING??
Lincoln Scott
We're implying he should have kicked the goddam football, Sparky.
Nolan Brown
Watterson's integrity is something every artist should have.
Nathan Baker
>It's always better to leave the party early. >tfw you never get invited to parties
Charles Adams
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Xavier Wood
This sounds more like Alan Moore would do.
Julian Foster
I hope Jim Davis read this.
Liam James
I doubt he cares. Watterson has some hang-ups about money but Davis doesn't. He wanted to create a money-making franchise and he was successful at it. Good for him.
Nathaniel Moore
You should have punched Lucy in the balls
Brayden Barnes
Jim Davis doesn't need to. He's fully aware that he's a corporate sellout, and he's perfectly fine with it because he doesn't give a shit about Garfield. Not everybody who makes comics has to be an artist.
Dylan Howard
Now where could my pipe be?
Easton Evans
He's completely right.
Evan Morales
It's an Onion article. I"m not entirely sure why i recognize it , but it is an onion article.
Wyatt Butler
Is this from The Onion?
Jack Diaz
Sounds like something a pathetic, spitefull person would do.
Colton Kelly
Yeah, like that Kelly guy. His cartoons are so dumb!
Benjamin Scott
You're not taking that seriously, right? It's just a joke article.
Dylan Scott
>the Onion tricks another idiot
Hudson Wilson
If only TV series writers knew and understood this...
Lucas Robinson
>It's always better to leave the party early. This man is too good for his industry, holy shit if only more cartoonists got this.
Dylan Peterson
Is there anything good left in the funnies?
Dominic Hall
1986 Interview, during the first year of Watterson's syndication.
Lucas Phillips
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Michael Martin
>syndicate wanted Bill to put Robotman in the strip
Asher Young
>What about Jim Davis? >Uh...
Brody Barnes
Nope.
Logan Anderson
Yes, it's from the Onion.
Daniel Fisher
>Do you see yourself doing this forever? >I'd like to, yeah How sweet.
Josiah Rivera
I always wonder if at some point I may have come across Bill Watterson. He lives somewhat nearby my house here.
He did those Pearls Before Swine comics for a week which were great. I think if he ever wanted to come back, a art book or something would be great like ideas and things he's thought about since retiring.
There was supposed to be some sort of documentary about him but I haven't heard of anything about it in a while.
Levi Miller
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Matthew Jones
>Kafkaesque
Josiah Bailey
he is the only one who gets it you only make it once, there is no ride it as long as you can nonsense, there is no great comeback nonsense. This is comic strips, its not long fantasy sagas people wait years for the next book, hell you arent even suppossed to read a ton of them in one sitting but just enjoy a new one here and there. Making them movies is also a stupid idea, these characters are meant to be featured in three pannels or so strips not a two hour long movie
Honestly people today have this adversion to letting thigs go, that kind of shit gives us episode 7
Tyler Ramirez
What is the Cow Tools version of Calvin & Hobbs?
Kayden Edwards
Printed newspapers are dead. The funnies have moved on to the internet and you need to follow or subscribe to specific comics. The good ones don't try to group up because that usually doesn't work.
They're called webcomics.
Noah Richardson
Episode 7 was good, though.
Connor Campbell
This. Rosianna Rabbit is the Calvin and Hobbes of the internet age.
Dominic Sullivan
Thanks for dumping this user
Hunter Gutierrez
I wouldn't really call it the new Calvin and Hobbes but it's definitely a good webcomic.
Andrew Harris
Like he said, something Alan Moore would do do.
Henry Morgan
Calvin and Hobbes was aimed at the heart. Rosianna Rabbit aims at another part of you.
Parker Garcia
>a mary sue >a literal violation of a 'show not tell' rule >a non-threatening villain >a fanservice character say what?
Noah Perez
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Colton Jackson
It depends on how you approach them.
Hudson Gray
Hi Hollywood studio execs Hello Scott Adams...
Are you reading this?
Cooper Green
Yeah, they're really not comparable. Davis always was in it to make something that'd give him bank and he obviously succeeded at that. I think people compare C&H and Garfield a little too much. They both star an orange feline. That's where the similarities end. The authors were in it for completely different things.
Doesn't change that early Garfield is still really, really, really fucking funny, though.
Camden Taylor
The gut? I mean she DOES make that double mega cheeseburger look mighty tasty.
Isaac Gutierrez
Haha! Look at him! Look at him and laugh at this stupid idiot!
Zachary Carter
they're not half wrong
Angel Collins
It was flawed but I liked it.
Aiden Lee
Bill then went back to spending 4 hours of every day peeking out his curtain to make sure the crazy stalkers weren't there (they never are).
Jaxon Smith
>a literal violation of a 'show not tell' rule
my favorite Sup Forums meme
Landon Perry
>tfw you will never hurl a brick through Watterson's front window with your Calvin x Hobbes slash fic taped to it
Thomas Williams
I read that he goes out into the woods to paint with his dad
Carter Cook
could you show me a moment in FA where Finn's character development happens and out of an inexperienced fighter who's terrifired at the sight of blood he becomes a relatively efficient murder machine with no second thoughts about killing his former comrades?
Dylan Nguyen
Probably around the same time a farmboy became a killer of special forces and a princess who went to boot camp once kept her head in a war zone?
Ethan Rivera
>Killing civilians in cold blood >Fighting for your life against dudes who want to murder you. I mean, I didn't hear a difference.
Kevin Ward
Can you be a corporate sellout when the point was to be corporate in the first place? People use that term erroneously far too often
Henry James
I find your opinion to be very wrong
Henry Thomas
>being terrified in a battlefield >then suddenly not being terrified in a battlefield Yes, you were saying?
Asher Allen
Something is far more believable when you see it in action than just having to take someone at their word because they told you so
Asher Ross
They didn't even tell it in Finn's case tho. They implied that the change happened automatically.
Anthony Nguyen
>a farmboy became a killer of special forces this was conveyed in a more convincing manner where the murder of the people who raised him motivated him to fight against the people that did it with Finn, it's basically what, a murder of his stormtrooper friend motivated him to murder more stormtroopers? >a princess who went to boot camp once kept her head in a war zone? now imagine if they told you that said princess actually was really bad there and showed considerably worse results than everybody else and then threw her into a battlefield anyway
Elijah Martin
I guess that's sounds like a good way to spend your life
Tyler Morales
>and then and they*
Julian Brooks
I believe this is the image you're looking for.
Carter Martinez
In the ham helmet
Jackson Fisher
>conveyed in a more convincing manner opinions
i can buy an untested recruit freezing up in his first combat deployment, and then eventually falling back on his training under adversity (which he was under a LOT of before facing off against his comrades) over a random fanboy getting mad enough to kill trained soldiers without hesitation
>it's basically what, a murder of his stormtrooper friend motivated him to murder more stormtroopers?
denseness
finn thought killing a helpless village was unethical, which with his friend dying made him desert, he's fighting in self-defense against people he KNOWS wants to kill him, not civilians
it's not very deep
In any case
>making dumb enough arguments that you make me defend TFA, the mediocrity of mediocrities