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My problem is that I don’t paint ambitiously. It’s all catch and release – just tiny fish that aren’t really worth the trouble to clean and cook.

Bill Watterson

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.
BILL WATTERSON

Lettering Reflection Way Writing
Calvin: Today for show and tell, I’ve brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake!
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Learning Snowflake Thinking Unique
Calvin: Medically speaking:. That’s love?!?….. Hobbes: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!!
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Cooties Figured Happened Hobbies Love
To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.
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Accomplish Happier Happy Meaning Trouble
I’m learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework…procrastinating and negotiation.
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Homework Negotiation Procrastinating Skills Use
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
A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
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Battle Disrespect Drama InterAction
Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?
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Dad Morning Three
I’m not a vegetarian! I’m a dessertarian!
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Dessert Food Funny Vegetarian
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
Few things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.
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Comforting Few Late Less
Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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Adulthood Childhood Spoiling
Hobbes: Do you think there’s a God? Calvin: Well, somebody’s out to get me!
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Hobbes Thinking Wells
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
We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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Funny Inspirational Science
Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.
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Creating Good Life Thinking

My problem is that I don’t paint ambitiously. It’s all catch and release – just tiny fish that aren’t really worth the trouble to clean and cook.

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My problem is that I don’t paint ambitiously. It’s all catch and release – just tiny fish that aren’t really worth the trouble to clean and cook.

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