would cuddle
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 September 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1990/07/24
i think you'll find THIS chart quite revealing.
― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 8 September 2012 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
Household six year olds were polled on their favorite bedtimes
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 September 2012 23:40 (eleven years ago) link
hahaha omg, i talk about the color/B&W all the time but I had completely forgotten "Not necessarily. A lot of great artists were insane."
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 9 September 2012 04:16 (eleven years ago) link
really disappointed that I didn't think to use 'attack of the stupid fruity crazy swag goons' when that was the rolling goon title
― 乒乓, Thursday, 7 February 2013 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
Dear Mr. Watterson documentary hitting festivals next month.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 4 March 2013 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
a sweet tribute:
http://zenpencils.com/comic/128-bill-watterson-a-cartoonists-advice/
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 00:59 (ten years ago) link
oh wow I love that!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 01:32 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, that's pretty amazing.
― Shart Week (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 01:37 (ten years ago) link
i love how he even captures the way watterson draws trees.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 01:37 (ten years ago) link
the series of strips with the sick bird that ended with this was just..
http://i29.tinypic.com/2vcj7uu.jpg
― piscesx, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 02:02 (ten years ago) link
wasn't it a raccoon?
― crüt, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 02:21 (ten years ago) link
there's one Sunday strip where he finds a dead bird. but that's different.
― crüt, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 02:22 (ten years ago) link
oh yeah!
― piscesx, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 02:22 (ten years ago) link
thanks for finding that jd. when i was a kid i pored over the 10th anniversary collection and any other scraps of actual watterson-prose i could find and it was clear to me how strongly he felt about merchandising/marketing/consumerism and how angry he got just writing about it but i didn't understand why at all so as i've gotten older, and learned why, and realized what a kind of radical ascetic he was (is), he's kind of unlocked as a personal hero. plus the strip, obv.
the jeep in the spiff-landscape is a neatly compressed desecration.
― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 02:33 (ten years ago) link
i mean, i understood that he wanted to retain control of his characters, but i didn't understand what it was like to grow up here.
― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 02:37 (ten years ago) link
sacrilege :/ sorry
― brimstead, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 02:37 (ten years ago) link
sacrilege how
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 03:11 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmRI3Ew4BvA
― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 05:23 (ten years ago) link
http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/
― Un peu d'Eire, ça fait toujours Dublin (Michael White), Friday, August 13, 2010 6:46 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark
this is fucking amazing btw
― sktsh, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 08:58 (ten years ago) link
When Watterson quit Calvin & Hobbes, wasn't he supposed to move on to other comic/cartoon projects that he could produce without the pressure of drawing a daily strip? Whatever happened to those? I have all the respect for him for stopping C&H before it got stale, but it's kinda sad that he hasnät released anything ever since, for 18 years.
And I'm not saying he has some obligation to his readers/fans, if he doesn't want to or doesn't have the inspiration to produce any new material for the public, that's his prerogative. But it's still kinda sad, because it felt he could've still done more with the comic medium.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 11:09 (ten years ago) link
He's carried on producing C&H strips, he just locks them up in a big safe next to all his Glass family manuscripts
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 11:12 (ten years ago) link
I thought he just wanted to paint watercolours
― Number None, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 12:05 (ten years ago) link
He works under a pseudonym -- he does XKCD now
― Øystein, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 14:31 (ten years ago) link
late work:
http://questionablecontent.net/comics/300.png
― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 14:54 (ten years ago) link
it's already getting attributed to watterson directly http://imgur.com/gallery/V6KoHbF
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 17:08 (ten years ago) link
it's a lovely homage
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 17:22 (ten years ago) link
yeah a fb friend already shared it basically saying HAY LOOK AT THIS BILL WATTERSON COMIC and I was like, 'Wait...but it's not...ugh nevermind'
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
Good job but it's way too self-aggrandizing to come from him.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
I want to, but I can't let that *thing* Listening Hour posted go by without comment, so ... UUURGH
― Øystein, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 17:24 (ten years ago) link
Mogwai
― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 17:31 (ten years ago) link
MERCURY REV
DESERTER'S SONGS
MOGWAI
HAPPY SONGS FOR HAPPY PEOPLE
― Vinetalic - "My Friend Terio" (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 17:33 (ten years ago) link
It's kind of creepy the way the girl in the homage strip is just Calvin with a wig
― Number None, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 20:09 (ten years ago) link
Anyone who thinks Watterson drew that doesn't deserve to read Calvin & Hobbes ever again. Anyone who thinks he lettered it doesn't deserve eyes.
― ᕦ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ᕤ (sic), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 22:17 (ten years ago) link
<3
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 22:27 (ten years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, August 27, 2013 8:11 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
in the heat of the moment, it was a gut reaction to this sad fool appropriating watterson's words for self-aggrandiziing bs on top of annoying watterson-esque illustrations.
― brimstead, Thursday, 29 August 2013 00:38 (ten years ago) link
the rest of his blog looks terrible as well, but i haven't kept up with comics in almost 20 years so i can't talk.
― brimstead, Thursday, 29 August 2013 00:45 (ten years ago) link
“I worked too long to get this job, and worked too hard once I got it, to let other people run away with my creation once it became successful. If I could not control what my own work was about and stood for, then cartooning meant very little to me.”
It's funny that the guy quotes this, then does exactly that. The comments are full of people wanting to buy this print. This tribute is well done, and it's cool that people want to do a kickstarter documentary about him or whatever, but it is sort of sad that his authenticity has ultimately become a commodity.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 29 August 2013 03:19 (ten years ago) link
otm. it's kind of just a twee version of a Calvin-peeing-on bumper sticker.
― some dude, Thursday, 29 August 2013 03:41 (ten years ago) link
hahaha
― crüt, Thursday, 29 August 2013 03:42 (ten years ago) link
that was not a lovely homage wtf
― Treeship, Thursday, 29 August 2013 04:46 (ten years ago) link
oh jesus lighten up
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 29 August 2013 06:39 (ten years ago) link
i really like it. thought it was a depiction of watterson at first (he got into his career in a similar way), but then again BW doesn't have kids.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 29 August 2013 06:41 (ten years ago) link
It's nicely done, but the way it seems to be saying "this is a choice you can make!" is kinda condescending, as most people don't have the financial security and/or a spouse willing to support them that's required to make a choice like this.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 29 August 2013 10:50 (ten years ago) link
otm. it's kind of just a twee version of a Calvin-peeing-on bumper sticker. --some dude
Haha yessss
― Vinetalic - "My Friend Terio" (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 29 August 2013 12:22 (ten years ago) link
― Tuomas, Thursday, August 29, 2013 6:50 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
OTM x1000.
― Shart Week (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 29 August 2013 13:47 (ten years ago) link
I bet no one's gonna draw a Watterson-esque cartoon where he calls his fellow cartoonists out for not actually drawing their own shit.
― Shart Week (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 29 August 2013 13:51 (ten years ago) link
very few comic strip artists have worked without some form of assistance, be it writing, pencilling, lettering, inking - schulz and watterson are rare exceptions - and would like to see watterson, or anyone, produce one of the classic daily adventure strips w/out hired help
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 29 August 2013 13:55 (ten years ago) link
watterson was a fan of walt kelly, who always used assistants -- i think his ire toward jim davis et al was mainly due to the quality of their ('their') work.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 29 August 2013 17:30 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, and he took sabbaticals as well, I'm sure he understood the need for assistants for people who worked straight through for decades. It still boggles my mind how much extraneous work Kelly did while drawing Pogo.
― JoeStork, Thursday, 29 August 2013 17:38 (ten years ago) link