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"Calvin and Hobbes" Creator Bill Watterson Looks Back With No Regrets
With fifteen years separating us from the last appearance of "Calvin and Hobbes" on the comic pages, reclusive artist Bill Watterson gave a rare interview reminiscing about his legacy. "The only part I understand is what went into the creation of the strip. What readers take away from it is up to them. Once the strip is published, readers bring their own experiences to it, and the work takes on a life of its own. Everyone responds differently to different parts. I just tried to write honestly, and I tried to make this little world fun to look at, so people would take the time to read it. That was the full extent of my concern. You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens. I can't explain why the strip caught on the way it did, and I don't think I could ever duplicate it. A lot of things have to go right all at once."
I'll tell you what I once told my son: "My love is limited, there is only so much I can share and I don't see why I should give you any when your sister is clearly the better child."
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Part of Calvin and Hobbes' popularity should be contributed to the lack of copyright in the beginning.
What the hell are you talking about? These are the first month of the comics and you can see an explicit copyright on all of them.
And what civil engineer hasn't told his kid that they determine weight limits for a bridge by driving continually heavier trucks across until it collapses and then rebuild it?
Or that there was color photography in the late 1800's/early 1900's, but all the stuff they took pictures of was black and white?
No. The point of letterboxing is to create extra space for TV logos and animated overlay advertisements.
It has become so popular that now, all my cable channels have 10% black borders on all four sides of the movie.
It's a good thing that they invented letterboxing or else we would have to have commercial breaks instead of animated advertisements during the movie or show!
Sheesh, some folks just don't understand.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
> I too share empathy for those rovers.
Don't anthropomorphize machines. They hate that!
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