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Bill Watterson is back ... sort of
This here is a recent interview... yes, recent.
mentalfloss.com/article/53216/mental-flo...rview-bill-watterson
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Q - "Owing to spite or just a foul mood, have you ever peeled one of those stupid Calvin stickers off of a pickup truck?"
A - "I figure that, long after the strip is forgotten, those decals are my ticket to immortality."
He hasn't changed but he seems to have a good sense of humour about it all.
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Yeah, sadly, I don't think he was "ahead of his time" at all, but rather way way behind his time, a throwback to the days when beautiful drawing in comic strips mattered. The dude really knows his comic-strip history, too. I can't wait for my son to be old enough to enjoy it.JonJacob wrote: He was way ahead (or just outside of) his time
If you like C&H, you should really check out the new Crockett Johnson Barnaby collection. It has many similarities to Calvin & Hobbes (though I think Watterson claims that he surprisingly wasn't influenced by it at all), and also like Calvin & Hobbes it burned short and sweet; I think the plan is for the complete Barnaby to be 5 volumes, and only the first two and the tail-end of the fifth are by Crockett Johnson. I find that even friends who aren't into old comic strips are really digging that Barnaby, even despite its unappealing appearance.
PS: He is not in the new documentary. At least, they list a LOT of interviewees, and do not mention him as one of them.
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He is, in many ways, behind his time, I get that. At least as a technician but I think that conceptually there are some things that were ahead of their time. I'm thinking specifically of things like Tracer Bullet or a T-Rex flying an F-16. That kind of cross genre surrealism was not common at the time and sure is now and Tracer Bullet certainly seems like it might have had a big influence on Mike Mignola and Frank Miller for example. But there is a really old fashioned feeling to his cartoons and there is something incredibly nostalgic about them.
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I was actually more excited about the interview I posted with him even though there's no video of him and it's just a few questions. He's only done like three interviews his whole career and is private to the extreme. I'll watch the doc too though.
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I still have it. It's one of my most treasured possessions.
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