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For those who are interested and may not know; Bill Watterson also ghost-drew a few strips for the comic Pearls Before Swine (part of an arc beginning on the 2n
by endominus 4y ago
For those who are interested and may not know; Bill Watterson also ghost-drew a few strips for the comic Pearls Before Swine (part of an arc beginning on the 2nd of June 2014[0] and continuing till the 8th). There are a couple of neat references to who it is behind the better art (anyone who's read Watterson's complaints on shrinking panel space in print media will be familiar with the guest character's comments) and I recall an old blog post by the artist of Pearls describing what it was like to work with Bill (terrifying; the thought of the postal worker just chucking these, the only comics anyone had gotten out of Watterson in years, onto his porch in the rain was horrible), but I can't find it.
[0]: https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2014/06/02 https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2014/06/02
EDIT: Nevermind, found it! https://stephanpastis.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/ever-wished-that-calvin-and-hobbes-creator-bill-watterson-would-return-to-the-comics-page-well-he-just-did/ https://stephanpastis.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/ever-wished-t...
- Natsu 4y agoIt's funny how it says there's "one picture in existence" but the site just shows "watterson.jpeg" and no actual photo, even in old archives.
- jamiek88 4y agohttps://www.themarginalian.org/2013/05/20/bill-watterson-1990-kenyon-speech/ https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/05/20/bill-watterson-199...
- upwardbound 4y agoIf anyone wants this, here's the highest-resolution version I could find of that photo of Watterson. https://image.cleveland.com/home/cleve-media/width2048/img/nationworld_impact/photo/calvin-fans-reason-to-smile-due-out-soon-film-and-a-rare-interview-357831e82e3960ed.jpg https://image.cleveland.com/home/cleve-media/width2048/img/n... He looks just like Calvin's dad for sure :)
- jamiek88 4y agoThat’s what I thought as well, Calvin’s dad as self portrait adds another lovely layer to it too!
- Natsu 4y agoI wonder if this can be added to Wikipedia under 'fair use' as it's apparently the only pic around.
- grepfru_it 4y agoA quick google for bill watterson brought up several photos. IANAL and as such YMMV
- sedev 4y agoShort version: no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Image_use_policy#Fair-use/Non-free_images https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Image_use_policy#Fai...
- Izkata 4y agoLooks like broken javascript. If you inspect "watterson.jpeg" and go up a few sibling elements, there's this: <div class="rawhtml"> <span class="resimg adv-photo-large" data-image="http://media.cleveland.com/ent_impact_home/photo/11001963-mmmain.jpg" data-position="article-main"></span> </div> http://media.cleveland.com/ent_impact_home/photo/11001963-mmmain.jpg http://media.cleveland.com/ent_impact_home/photo/11001963-mm...
- Sateeshm 4y agoThat was a great read. I really liked the second comic.
- JoeAltmaier 4y agoIt so easy to see that Bill Watterson drew those 'Libby' panels. Once you're told anyway. Especially 2nd one!
- JoeAltmaier 4y agoAnother comic that I identified by style, is the 'Secondhand Lion' strips. They seem almost identical to Berkely Breathed's strips 'Bloom County'
- classichasclass 4y agoThat's because Breathed drew them for the film.
- dcminter 4y agoThat's amazing, thank you for posting it!
- tomcam 4y agoBeautiful. Thank you very much.
- dclowd9901 4y agoThere’s definitely strong thematic overlap between the two. It delights me to know Watterson had some hand in PBS as I really love it too.
- guggalugalug 4y agoPatsis's blog contains a post from 2014 and a post from 2018. Yet its "Pearls Books" page has been kept slightly more up to date. There is something comically sad about a recently active blog with only two posts over a 6+ year period. Bill Waterson and a canceled United flight were some of the most noteworthy things to have happened to him.
- JJMcJ 4y agoLike many people, he now posts on Twitter instead of blogging.