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Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

Bill Watterson

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
Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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Acid Failing Tests
I tell you all this because it’s worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success.
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Detours Ideas Recognizing Success Trying
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
They can’t chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can’t contain it! Laws can’t restrain it! Authority has no power over it!
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Law Lawn Over Running Spirit Wall
I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
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Happiness Inspirational Life
If you can’t win by reason, go for volume.
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Reason Volume Winning
Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes.
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Numbers Play Special
Problems often look overwhelming at first. The secret is to break problems into small, manageable chunks. If you deal with those, you’re done before you know it.
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Done Looks Secret
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
Few things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.
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Comforting Few Late Less
Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.
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Book Rain Reading
They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.
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Around Figures Hang Right Secret Tricks
I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock.
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Actually Artist Quality Smoke Tell
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
That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.
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Bad Perseverance Remarkable Worse

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