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I haven't read his prior interviews, but I must say, I took away none of that from this one. He seems to display an appropriate humility about his art: "Reade
by mquander 17y ago
I haven't read his prior interviews, but I must say, I took away none of that from this one. He seems to display an appropriate humility about his art:
"Readers will always decide if the work is meaningful and relevant to them, and I can live with whatever conclusion they come to...I'm proud of the strip, enormously grateful for its success, and truly flattered that people still read it."
Although we all hope for some kind of tremendous story of revelation and inspiration and toil behind meaningful art, I don't think you can really fault him just because he doesn't have one ready to offer.
- bgraves 17y agoThere's a great C&H collection with tons of commentary [1]. He does talk about the creative process a bit and how he loathes certain aspects of the newspaper industry. I find it all very fascinating and could probably watch an entire documentary series on this guy and what he went through during his career. [1] http://books.google.com/books?id=xtiMQXCLdJEC&lpg=PP1&dq=isbn%3A0836204387&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q=&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=xtiMQXCLdJEC&lpg=PP1...
- mquander 17y agoThank you very much for digging that up. It's an interesting piece of background.
- bgraves 17y agoYou are welcome. I just stumbled across this collection from WikiQuotes; very much worth a browsing (if you've read C&H). http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Watterson http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Watterson
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- albertsun 17y agoI read and re-read this book probably 100 times. It's really amazing. There's another collection of Sunday strips that has some commentary and the original sketches of the comic too that I really liked. http://www.amazon.com/Calvin-Hobbes-Sunday-Pages-1985-1995/dp/0740721356 http://www.amazon.com/Calvin-Hobbes-Sunday-Pages-1985-1995/d...