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 WATTERSONAs “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It’s hard to charge admission without a gate.
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Scientific Progress goes boink?
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It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
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Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.
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Of course, REAL zombies never get the giggles when they look at each other.
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Buttons … check. Dials … check. Switches … check. Little colored lights … check.
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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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Sleepwalking?” “Nightmare?” “Homicidal psycho jungle cat!
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It’s hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
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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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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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At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.
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Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. I love loopholes.
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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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The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.
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