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Raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you’re old and weak… Am I scary, or what?

Bill Watterson

[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
Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond’rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces… Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug’s juices!
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Design Grace Produce Spiders
Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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Painting Solve Tigers Vans
I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
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Dark Imagine Thinking
If you can’t win by reason, go for volume.
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Reason Volume Winning
Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist – how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
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Drugs Missing Rooms Trashed
You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
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Body School Spirit
I try to make everyone’s day a little more surreal.
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Little Surreal Trying
Boy, there’s nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.
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Boys Inscrutable Omen
A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
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Color Crayon Order Perfect Pointy
County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that’s the problem.
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Definitions Desk Library Needs Reference
I let my mind wander and it didn’t come back.
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Bumper Funny Mind Sticker Wander
I’ve been interested in cartooning all my life. I read the comics as a kid, and I did cartoons for high school publications – the newspaper and yearbook and soon. In college, I got interested in political cartooning and did political cartoons.
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Kids Publication School Yearbook
There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them.
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Different Gatekeepers Gone Prospects Voice
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
You know, there are times when it’s a source of personal pride to not be human.
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Humans Pride Source
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
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’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.
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Congratulation Cynically Expect Manipulate Nothing Taught
Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
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Best Friend Friendship Inspirational
Of course, REAL zombies never get the giggles when they look at each other.
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Looks Other Real Zombie
Few things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.
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Comforting Few Late Less
Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I’d say our afternoon just got booked solid!
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Humorous Running Solid Water
Calvin: Why are you crying mom? Mom: I’m cutting up an onion. Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables.
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Cutting Mom Vegetables
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
Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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Adulthood Childhood Spoiling

Raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you’re old and weak… Am I scary, or what?

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