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Interestingly Jim Davis stopped doing Garfield ages ago - he just had a team of people doing it on his behalf so he could keep making the money... Obviously it

Interestingly Jim Davis stopped doing Garfield ages ago - he just had a team of people doing it on his behalf so he could keep making the money... Obviously it diminished any legacy Garfield has had but he's still got to go and do what he wanted (Orson's Farm). But it's not clear that Waterson's something else would ever be commercial or public - just that he was going to go and do something that wasn't Calvin and Hobbes. Only he will know what his original intention was (or even if he had any sort of clear idea at the time) but he has no children and is presumably financially secure for life from Calvin and Hobbes so at the very least he'll have known that not "working" again was an option.

techtalsky 13y ago
I wonder how he managed to be "financially secure for life" without any merchandising. Just from book sales and syndication money? That seems amazing.
- scott_karana 13y ago
  If he lives as modestly as I suspect, he may be able to easily live off the growth of investments on one or two million dollars. :)
- Tyrannosaurs 13y ago
  As of January 2010 it had been featured in 2,400 newspapers worldwide and there are 18 books with combined sales of nearly 45 million... Reruns of the strip still appear in over 50 countries. He's married but has no children and seems, from what you can read, to live a relatively modest life. I'm assuming that adds up to being secure and I suspect if it were to go one way or another from secure it would go towards being very well off indeed.