Do you think Bill Watterson likes anime? Would he even know what it is?

Do you think Bill Watterson likes anime? Would he even know what it is?

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No. He comes off as heterosexual.

I imagine watterson lives in what's basically a time capsule. He's generally not aware of anything that's existed past 1980

That was the golden age of animoo.
And most americans weren't aware of it, I wager.

>"Saw a picture of Calvin & Hobbes kissing one another online. Please do not do that."

Nah Watterson is a square old man.

I don't mean that as an insult but he's old fashioned. He's probably heard of it though.

Oh, yeah. He's a HUGE weeb.

I dunno if he likes anime, but he certainly would have encountered Japanese animation at some point.

He definitely would not like some of the drivel that gets put out today.

I can see him being aware of at least Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion.

He wouldn't like anime, but he would probably like Japanimation.

Has there ever been video of Bill Watterson? There is only like 5 photos of him in circulation.

I mean good on him for having master evasion skills in regards to publicity.

He directly references Astro Boy in the school picture storyline.

He'd ask you what the hell anime was, then when you explained it to him he'd exclaim, "Oh, you mean Japanimation!" and probably list off Astro Boy, Speed Racer, something like Gigantor and maybe something that would totally catch you off guard like Cowboy Bebop or LOGH as examples.

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Sure. The reason he stopped drawing C&H is so he could play more Idolmaster.

There are some voice recordings of him

I've legit wondered whether he ever visits Sup Forums, maybe even reading this thread now.
I've only ever seen the pic in the OP. This is the only other pic I've seen of him, thanks user.

>Do you think Bill Watterson likes
No.

Morons, that's Robert Crumb. Educate yourselves.

this

I think Astro Boy was actually references in C&H.
IIRC there was a strip where Calvin does up his hair with crisco

Watterson likes nothing, his soul was consumed by his hatred of plebs decades ago. He spends his days drawing new Calvin and Hobbes comics only to destroy them as a way to harm fans of his series.

dosn't look ugly enough to be Crumb

I could see him being into Kaiju movies.

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He shuns the spotlight because he hates corporate America with a passion.

Nah but he'd probably like Japanese artists like Kurosawa and Kobo Abe.

Here, have a yearbook photo.
There was an article a few years back by a guy who actually went to Watterson's town to try and score an interview with him. He fails, of course, but he knew it was a long shot anyway. The kicker is that since no current photographs of Watterson exist he suspects that he may have actually talked to him in a store but, of course, can't prove it.

>implying Bill Watterson even exists

You’ve never seen a picture of him outside that

The guy who does Pearls Before Swine actually did somehow manage to track him down and got an interview. Watterson even made a few guest strips for his comic.

Yeah, but not in person. He's answered a few interviews once in a blue moon as well.

He probably likes Miyazaki. Probably, like Miyazaki, loathes the mass produced shit that weebs love.

No it's Noah Van Sciver but in the future.

Your memery has brought up a good idea

Watterson famously stopped doing Calvin and Hobbes so he could do something else but then never released anything

Do you think there's 20 years worth of sketched out strips that he was too afraid to release because he felt they'd never measure up

Do you think upon his death we'll have years worth of new Watterson material

>Watterson famously stopped doing Calvin and Hobbes so he could do something else but then never released anything

I don't think he stopped so he could start doing another comic. He stopped comics all together cause he wanted to other things as in entirely other things. I'm guessing drinking coffee, painting, hang out with his wife. I'm pretty sure making money is of no concern for him.

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Bill Watterson is my favorite cryptid

I love this man so much Sup Forums. I used to read Lazy Sunday from my elementary school's library all the time. I remember I checked it out once and binged it through the rest of my day and when I returned it so soon the woman at the library counter (some snobby middle-aged volunteer) asked me why I hadn't liked it. I told her I had loved it but I had finished. She chastised me for lying to her. As if a 3rd grader couldn't have possibly read a collection of comic books in a single afternoon. I'm still mad about it because she talked down to me and I didn't tolerate that much as a child. Adults were idiots and I loved how Calvin's language was more advanced than kids in other media. Also in 5th grade I wrote an essay about Watterson and no one else knew who he was. Even my teacher asked me if maybe I wanted to pick someone else more 'recognizable' or 'inspiring'.

Fuck them all I used to wish that this man would adopt me. When I got the Tenth Anniversary book as a gift, getting to read all his commentary and notes on the comics and his experiences gave me so many feels when I was little.

>Do you think Bill Watterson likes anime?

That's as vague as wondering if someone likes books.

Watercolour paintings, a few of which have been auctioned for charity.
What I don't understand is how Watterson supports himself, if he never licensed C&H for advertising. Sure, sometimes it recirculates in magazines and the anthologies are fairly popular, but enough for a man to sustain himself for decades? He woulda needed a helluva deal on those books.

But books vary in quality and topic while all anime is the same.

He doesn't strike me as someone who watches a lot besides maybe older classics, but I feel he'd also be able to make some pretty insightful commentary about the industry.

Naw, I bet he's actually one of those people who get rabidly angry about it for "no reason."

He also sneaks in occasional panels for the current Bloom County run, but Berke hasn't admitted it.

Dude's probably in a better place mentally now than he's ever been and is actually enjoying drawing again, but of course he'll never go back to Calvin, nor would I want him to.

Bloom County is good. Old school Bill the cat shenanigans were edgy as fuck and kicked so much ass.

Howso re: Bloom County? Links/panels?

>underrated post of February.

I'll have to go digging but I want to say it was a Cutter John/Starship Enterpoop bit that went full Spaceman Spiff with Watterson's signature alien landscapes and at least one monster. Berke can ape his style for some things but that was clearly Bill.

Sometimes I swear he and Ethan play up their personas to be the housiest mainstream motherfucker and the hipsteriest hipster motherfucker. That, or one got kidnapped by gypsies

Breathed and Watterson seemed to have a back and forth, probably in good humor. This is a thing Watterson drew to take a jab at Breathed for his excessive licensing.

Newspapers when he was working were still a pretty big deal, and if you got a lucrative enough syndication contract he probably could live off it for quite a while. One can make a few million last a lifetime if you live wisely.

would probably enjoy yowamushi pedal

I don't think that guy understands how residuals work. Or just how huge Calvin & Hobbes was.

Is.
Those books still sell pretty well,

Considering he didn't seem to like FRank Miller's batman, I don't think he'd be too impressed with anime just due to its perceived maturity. I don't think he'd care much about pushing the boundaries of animation in terms of writing or content, because just having a mature story or dealing with that sort of content doesn't make it any good. After all, coming from a comics background, he's been around plenty of political strips that aren't for kids, and most aren't any good. He'd care more for the art direction itself. I think he'd appreciate stuff like Studio Ghibli on an artistic level, but wouldn't connect to it much and wouldn't think much of it. In a cynical way, I think he'd dislike a lot of the commercialism that comes with a good deal of more mainstream anime, too. Seeing as he more-or-less abandoned cartooning for water colors, I get the vibe that he's one of those really old school guys who sees cartooning as inherently lesser and would prefer to be known as a classical artist. Not that he hates or regrets C&Hs, he respects it enough not to tarnish it, but I don't think he himself considers it that important int he grand scheme of thing.

I think you underestimate just how popular and lucrative C&H is.

This is complete bullshit. Sup Forums users like you are just as bad as the weebs they hate. Anime is just animation from japan, you're drawing an arbitrary line for no reason other than your own ignorance. Why do you consider all animation globally to be animation yet if it comes from a specific island suddenly it's no longer animation and you dismiss it as being 'different' and 'not even worth notice'?

Just as bad as weebs who refuse to enjoy anything outside of japanese animation because they don't give anything else a look and are stuck in their ways. If you don't give all animation an equal chance regardless of origin, then you're just a weeaboo in sheep's clothing.

I think people have a weird idea of what anime is
There's shit like One Piece or PreCure, and there's shit like Yokai Watch or Doraemon, and there's shit like WataMote or Poptepic, and there's shit like Galaxy Express or Neon Genesis

I think people should ask themselves do I mean anime, as in cartoons, or do I mean anime, as in Naruto?
Because if Bill Watterson likes cartoons, he'll probably be fine with anime, because they are the same thing

Corrections: Aluminium Falconpoop and there's no real background, but look at that fucking Godzilla

Also, Tiny Toons has a stealth Spaceman Spiff short during the first part of "Top Secret Apprentice." Pretty much all the elements are taken from various Spiff strips (Buster's ship, enemy ship, the planet, even the alien city)
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This is a shitty youtube clip but you can probably find the episode somewhere for download.

hmm, yeah maybe

In an era where franchises like Star Wars are getting raped to death, there's something rare and refreshing about someone who refused to sacrifice artistic integrity. And in newspaper comics, no less.

Watterson is in a category all on his own. I'd dare even put him above Seuss. When you see Spaceman Spiff, you just know it's Watterson and the art is plain awesome.

How the hell did I not know that Bloom County has been back for three years?

Back in the day I don't think Watterson did it in good humor. Especially when Breathed drew Calvin's mom getting nailed by Hobbes.

Woah, pics please.

Wut? It was Blondie, and as it is Watterson started it with this. He gives as good as he gets

I think I saw an interview with him from the late '80's or early '90's. He showed the interviewer how he could jump over a chair.

>I imagine watterson lives in what's basically a time capsule. He's generally not aware of anything that's existed past 1980

More like you seem generally unaware of anything about him that exists past 1995

Close down the thread. This one's solved.

He's not entirely fond of the 80's darkening of comics but he acknowledges how DKR was an eye-opener and also liked Bill Sienkiewicz's work.

>Seeing as he more-or-less abandoned cartooning for water colors, I get the vibe that he's one of those really old school guys who sees cartooning as inherently lesser and would prefer to be known as a classical artist. Not that he hates or regrets C&Hs, he respects it enough not to tarnish it, but I don't think he himself considers it that important int he grand scheme of thing.

I don't agree with this on account of how much he talked about how he enjoyed the old comic strips. Honestly the most likely reason he left was that the new format he did was more labor-intensive and needed him to take long sabbaticals.

Ah yeah, that's what it was. I like watching interviews with Breathed. He's a neat guy.