Bill Watterson Quotes - Page 13

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• Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty. Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

  Bill Watterson

  Class, League, Superhero

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• Hey Dad, will you buy me a flame thrower? Of course not. Don't be silly. Even if I didn't use it in the house?

  Bill Watterson

  Dad, Silly, Flames

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• Too often cartoonists just look at other cartoonists and, after a lot of inbreeding, everyone has the same funny look. The challenge of drawing is that there is no one right way to visually describe something. It's a good thing to confront your limitations and preconceptions every so often.

  Bill Watterson

  Drawing, Challenges, Inbreeding

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it.

  Bill Watterson

  Sports, Team, People

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• I don't enjoy lettering very much, but that's the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.

  Bill Watterson

  Writing, Reflection, Way

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• Books are almost always better than the movies made from them, because there are things books do well and things movies do well, but usually those things don't overlap: the same with comics and animation.

  Bill Watterson

  Book, Made, Animation

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• In a comic strip, you can suggest motion and time, but it's very crude compared to what an animator can do. I have a real awe for good animation.

  Bill Watterson

  Real, Comic, Animation

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.

  Bill Watterson

  Girl, Sex, Fun

  "The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury". Book by Bill Watterson, September 1988.

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• S...For Stupendous! T...For Tiger, ferocity of! U...For Underwear, Red! P...For Power, Incredible! E...For excellent physique! N...For...Um...Something..Hm, well, I'll come back to that... D...For Determination! U...For...Wait, How do you spell this? Is it "I"??

  Bill Watterson

  Determination, Waiting, Underwear

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• [Calvin, who has the chicken pox, calls Susie on the telephone.] Susie: Hello? Calvin: Hi, Susie! It's me, Calvin! I was wondering if you'd like to come over and play. Susie: Why, sure! Boy, I don't think you've ever invited me to... Calvin's Mom: Calvin, what are you doing? Calvin: Nothing, Mom. Go away. Calvin's Mom: You're contagious! You can't have anyone over to play! Calvin: Shhhh! Shhhh! You'll spoil the whole thing! I was going to trick Susie into catching... HEY! OW! LET GO! Susie: [Hanging up the phone] Any chance of getting transferred, Dad?

  Bill Watterson

  Mom, Letting Go, Dad

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• I'm a misunderstood genius.

  Bill Watterson

  Misunderstood, Genius, Misunderstood Genius

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• I chose to tell the story visually, so that anyone of any age, from any country, could understand it.

  Bill Watterson

  Country, Age, Stories

  Source: www.mixedmartialarts.com

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• I'm willing to take the blame if the strip goes down the drain, and I want the credit if it succeeds. So long as it has my name on it, I want it to be mine.

  Bill Watterson

  Names, Long, Credit

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• I was offered a job at the Cincinnati Post as their editorial cartoonist in a trial six month arrangement. The agreement was that they could fire me or I could quit with no questions asked if things didn't work out during the first few months. Sure enough, things didn't work out, and they fired me, no questions asked.

  Bill Watterson

  Jobs, Fire, Agreement

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• I think comics overall would be better. I think there's a tremendous potential to be tapped.

  Bill Watterson

  Thinking, Would Be

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live up to his expectations. My Cincinnati days were pretty Kafkaesque.

  Bill Watterson

  Editors, Expectations, Winner

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• I still read newspaper comics, but without much hope for their future.

  Bill Watterson

  Newspapers, Stills

  Source: www.mixedmartialarts.com

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• I always think of "Popeye" and "Barney Google" as quintessential comic strips in that old rollicky, slapstick way we've sort of lost.

  Bill Watterson

  Thinking, Google, Way

  Source: www.mixedmartialarts.com

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• I've always been a huge fan of fantasy and adventure, putting yourself in someone else's shoes, I'm sure that's why I'm an actor. It's why I played with action figures as a kid, that's why I wrote and drew and read comics as a kid.

  Bill Watterson

  Adventure, Kids, Shoes

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• I think the experience forced me to consider how interested I was in political cartooning. After I was fired, I applied to other papers but political cartooning, like all cartooning, is a very tough field to break into. Newspapers are very reluctant to hire their own cartoonists when they can get Oliphant or MacNelly through syndication for a twentieth of the price.

  Bill Watterson

  Thinking, Political, Paper

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• Saturday morning cartoons do that now, where they develop the toy and then draw the cartoon around it, and the result is the cartoon is a commercial for the toy and the toy is a commercial for the cartoon. The same thing's happening now in comic strips; it's just another way to get the competitive edge. You saturate all the different markets and allow each other to advertise the other, and it's the best of all possible worlds. You can see the financial incentive to work that way. I just think it's to the detriment of integrity in comic strip art.

  Bill Watterson

  Morning, Art, Integrity

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• Cincinnati at that time was also beginning to realize it had major cartooning talent in Jim Borgman, at the city's other paper, and I didn't benefit from the comparison.His footsteps seemed like good ones to follow, so I cultivated an interest in politics, and Borgman helped me a lot in learning how to construct an editorial cartoon. Neither of us dreamed I'd end up in the same town on the opposite paper.

  Bill Watterson

  Opposites, Cities, Cartoon

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• I have enough friends who are gamers. I actually enjoy watching them play because of the visuals and the storytelling of the games. I just love being able to go on an adventure and games are just so sophisticated now that you can just get lost in a world for 20 hours and just be someone else in a very visceral, emotional way. And that's just fascinating.

  Bill Watterson

  Adventure, Love Is, Emotional

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• I played in rock bands in college and then right out of college I moved over to Europe and lived in Ireland for about four years playing in indie rock bands. I love and miss being in a band, I still am in a band but pursuing that as a career I definitely missed it but I felt like that ship had sailed.

  Bill Watterson

  College, Rocks, Years

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• Cleveland is a really hard place, it's a very creative place, it feeds you creatively, but it's a very hard place to make a living creatively.

  Bill Watterson

  Creative, Cleveland, Hard

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