It’s gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, “Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy.”
BILL WATTERSONEvery artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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I don’t enjoy lettering very much, but that’s the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.
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I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man’s destruction of forests. . . .
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We all have different desires and needs, but if we don’t discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
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Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a ‘possum stuck in your collar?
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Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
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Calvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where’s your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I’m yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet.
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You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.
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I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word ‘booger’ in a newspaper comic strip.
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Isn’t it sad how some people’s grip on their lives is so precarious that they’ll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?
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Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
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Even when you look for it, you’re never prepared for it.
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You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.
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I’m related to people I don’t relate to.
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There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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