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If you’ve ever compared a film to a novel it’s based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It’s inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie’s needs get served.
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Different Inevitable Media Needs
People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
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Funny Inspirational Witty
No sport is less organized than Calvinball.
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Less Organized Sports
I would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn’t please him, so he sent me packing.
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Idea Packing Percent Prostituted
Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
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Alive Art Moving
Calvin the zombie searches for food. Horribly, the undead feed upon the living! …Although, in a pinch, a PBJ will do, if you eat it messily enough.
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Enough Undead Zombie
I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
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Hate Point Stories Thinking
History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That’s why events are always reinterpreted when values change.
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Direction Events Knowable Order Prejudice
I’d like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.
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Higher Paper Standards
You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.
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Good Luck Lucky Rockets
I’ve got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
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Doubt Listening Nagging
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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Boys Kids Resources Scary Supposed
Leader, bandits at 2 o’clock! Roger; it’s only 1:30 now-what’ll I do ’til then?
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Clock Funny Leader Roger
My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
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Burden Historical Terrible
I’ve always tried to make the strip animated, even when the characters aren’t moving, with expressions or perspectives or some sort of exaggeration.
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Aggerations Character Expression Moving
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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Looks Media Thinking
Once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
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Appreciate Late Miracle
Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
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Snow Winning
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.”
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Art Gratifying People Someone Write Writing
[Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble] Calvin: Ha! I’ve got a great word and it’s on a “Double word score” box! Hobbes: “ZQFMGB” isn’t a word! It doesn’t even have a vowel! Calvin: It is so a word! It’s a worm found in New Guinea!
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Looks Scrabble Vowels
Calvin: Life’s a lot more fun when you aren’t responsible for your actions.
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Action Fun Hobbes
The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
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Fun Real Smug Wisely
I’ve been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander.
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Amazed Ideas Mind Wander
There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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Clever Funny Time
If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.
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Cute Funny Life Stars
In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
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Art Book Comics Hands
Barney’s Dad was really bad so Barney hatched a plan when his dad said “Eat your peas.” Barney shouted no and ran Barney tricked his mean old dad and locked him in the cellar Barney’s Mom never found out where he’d gone, Cause Barney didn’t tell her. T
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Dad Mom Peas Plan Sorry

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