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Quotes by Bill Watterson

Anyone can publish now, and there are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is […]

Bill Watterson

Peanuts is long overdue for a serious reappraisal. Its ubiquitous licensing program unfortunately obscures what a well-crafted, beautifully written and drawn strip it is. Peanuts is one of […]

Bill Watterson

The visual attraction of the comics is largely a thing of the past. Until something is done to restore the size of comics, they will only continue to […]

Bill Watterson

A beautiful strip like Pogo would be impossible to read at today’s sizes. Adventure strips are dead. Comics have been deprived of much of their ability to entertain. […]

Bill Watterson

To save space, newsprint, and money, newspapers have been reducing the size of comics for years. It has gotten to the point now, where cartoons can no longer […]

Bill Watterson

New cartoonists don’t have to reinvent the wheel. They can build on others’ accomplishments. Books allow cartoons to live longer and that’s a real service.

Bill Watterson

I’m convinced that licensing would sell out the soul of Calvin and Hobbes. The world of a comic strip is much more fragile than most people realize. Once […]

Bill Watterson

I have no interest in turning my characters into commodities. If I’d wanted to sell plush garbage, I’d have gone to work as a carny.

Bill Watterson

Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.

Bill Watterson

Repetition is the death of magic.

Bill Watterson

Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist – how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!

Bill Watterson

The comics were invented for commercial purposes. They were, and are, a graphic feature designed to help sell newspapers. Cartoonists work within severe space constraints on an inflexible […]

Bill Watterson

We’ve got too many comic strip corpses being propped up and passed for living by new cartoonists who ought to be doing something of their own. If a […]

Bill Watterson

As comic strips are printed smaller and smaller, the drawings and dialogue have to get simpler and simpler to stay legible. Cartoons are just words and pictures, and […]

Bill Watterson

Characters are more important than jokes.

Bill Watterson
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