Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a ‘possum stuck in your collar?
BILL WATTERSONHey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a ‘possum stuck in your collar?
BILL WATTERSONIn the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
BILL WATTERSONHobbes: Do you think there’s a God? Calvin: Well, somebody’s out to get me!
BILL WATTERSONThat’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.
BILL WATTERSONFor me, it’s been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity.
BILL WATTERSONCalvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray.
BILL WATTERSONI’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.
BILL WATTERSONCalvin:”It says here that ‘religion is the opiate of the masses.’…what do you suppose that means?” Television: “…it means that Karl Marx hadn’t seen anything yet
BILL WATTERSONFrom now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.
BILL WATTERSONI’m learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework…procrastinating and negotiation.
BILL WATTERSONThere 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.
BILL WATTERSONWhat a stupid game! You must have cheated! You must have used some sneaky, underhanded mindmeld to make me lose! I hate you! I didn’t want to play this idiotic game in the first place! I knew you’d cheat!
BILL WATTERSONI thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
BILL WATTERSONWe 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.
BILL WATTERSONA day can really slip by when you’re deliberately avoiding what you’re supposed to do.
BILL WATTERSONHold it. You know what I’d like to see? I’d like to see the three bears eat the three little pigs, and then the bears join up with the big bad wolf and eat Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood! Tell me a story like that, OK?
BILL WATTERSON