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Fifteen years after drawing this strip, Calvin and Hobbes creator, Bill Watterson, stepped out from his low-key profile and was interviewed (via email) for a Cleveland-based paper.
“By the end of 10 years, I’d said pretty much everything I had come there to say…If I had rolled along with the strip’s popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now ‘grieving’ for “Calvin and Hobbes” would be wishing me dead and cursing newspapers for running tedious, ancient strips like mine,” Watterson said.
I love Calvin and Hobbes, but I do understand where he’s coming from. More of the same would have made this comic less special than it is.
“The only part I understand is what went into the creation of the strip. What readers take away from it is up to them. Once the strip is published, readers bring their own experiences to it, and the work takes on a life of its own,” Watterson said.
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