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Post number 5622

JFunk2800 — Wed, 31 Jan 2001 15:20:51 -0800

Who knew that Calvin's favorite magazine was real?

By: aladfar

aladfar — Wed, 31 Jan 2001 20:27:14 -0800

Totally off topic, but I gotta ask - anyone know what Bill Waterson is up to nowadays? I didn't realize it till reading this post, but I really miss Calvin n' Hobbes . . .

By: hobbes

hobbes — Wed, 31 Jan 2001 21:07:52 -0800

Went into seclusion. I've read stuff about him saying that sometimes he wished that he didn't draw C&H 'cause of the publicity he gets. Hard to live a normal life.

By: artlung

artlung — Wed, 31 Jan 2001 23:13:22 -0800

Watterson is a genius. Amazing line, drawings that come alive. Always reminded me of sumi-e paintings. Calvin & Hobbes always seemed like the work of a creator dying to share the best of himself. Where is he now? He retired in '96 and is now in Salinger/Pynchon mode. Reading this speech from 1989, one wonders what Watterson might have done had the web been around when Calvin was huge. Would he have shunned it as yet another avenue of commercialization to avoid, or embraced it as another avenue of expression?

By: sonofsamiam

sonofsamiam — Thu, 01 Feb 2001 07:04:21 -0800

Calvin and Hobbes was undoubtedly one of the top 5 influences on the young me. I still read it all the time.

By: Optamystic

Optamystic — Fri, 02 Feb 2001 02:09:55 -0800

sonofsamiam, on that, if nothing else, we can blissfully agree.