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But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He’s one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!

Bill Watterson

All the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and versatile, so I think they’ll continue to find relevance one way or another. But they definitely won’t be the same as what I grew up with.
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Looks Media Thinking
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
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Contact None Sometimes Think Universe
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
Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
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Disappointment Friendship Harder Swearing
On the other hand, the mass media is disintegrating, and audiences are atomizing. I suspect comics will have less widespread cultural impact and make a lot less money.
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Cultural Disintegrating Impact Less Money
I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
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Dark Imagine Thinking
Calvin: Sometimes when I’m talking, my words can’t keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we can think faster than we speak? Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
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Speaking Talking Thinking
You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.
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Chemistry Design Ingredients
Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
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Frustration Life Like Running
I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?
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Mean Wonder
Scientific Progress goes boink?
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Hobbes Progress Scientific Progress
Few things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.
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Comforting Few Late Less
So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?
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Esteem Expectations Secret Self
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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Problem Tiny Trouble
Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
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Snow Winning
I’M SIGNIFICANT!!! … Say’s the dust speck.
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Dust Say Significant Specks

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