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on Wednesday June 11 2014, @05:54PM
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from the I-should-start-demanding-full-page-color-department-names dept.
After almost 20 years Bill Watterson has officially drawn another comic strip. Pearls Before Swine artist Stephan Pastis was in the right place and the right time (and also had just published this strip) and the two collaborated briefly.
Stephan Pastis's wordpress website describes the encounter.
The comic strips:
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Creator of Calvin & Hobbes Returns for Three Guest Strips
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... I don't know why but, suddenly, I want to discuss declining I.Q.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 11 2014, @06:08PM
The best strip was the one where Libby leaves. That is the one that initially clued me in to something else going on as the ending was a little too familiar. http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2014/06/07 [gocomics.com]
(Score: 4, Informative) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday June 11 2014, @06:09PM
Bill's comics from his college days [edgecastcdn.net] were also pretty good. [robotbeach.com]
(Score: 1) by arslan on Thursday June 12 2014, @03:17AM
Is it me or does that guy sitting behind Mr. Groobman looking bored kinda looks like Calvin's dad..
(Score: 3, Interesting) by tynin on Wednesday June 11 2014, @07:48PM
I generally do not see myself as selfish, and I'm a huge fan of privacy. But for YEARS I've been wanting Bill Watterson back in my life. It is almost like a sense of abandonment. I want to know what that guy is doing, I want him to be producing something great, awesome, filled with life and joy and often deep thought. I want him, more than any other artist ever, to keep producing. I keep flipping through my copies of his books, and in the end, I'm so happy he didn't sell out / jump the shark, and told the entire story that needed to be told and nothing more. But at the same time, I'm left longing.
I did enjoy his co-op with Pearls Before Swine. I hope this might be a sign that he will dust off his drawing board and spring forth with something wonderful.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 11 2014, @07:57PM
Meh, I'm happy with the state of affairs. I'm assuming that, at some point in the next few decades, or at least after he passes, the paintings (he's been painting, apparently) and other works he's created will be released. In the meantime he can have his privacy.
(Score: 2) by tynin on Wednesday June 11 2014, @08:03PM
Yeah, I suppose it has been a while since those feelings really griped me. Over time, I got over it. It has been a LONG time now. But seeing him doing a couple of panels really drove it back up fresh. I usually have at least one of two of his books on my desk, though I don't think I could find them all now. Time fades everything.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday June 11 2014, @08:20PM
I feel the same way, I miss having new comics but strongly respect that Bill actually let it die gracefully and didn't prolong it kicking and screaming into mediocrity and rampant product placement like what happened to Doonesbury, or Metallica's music, or the show Family guy.
And we want to respect that privacy, because it would be really annoying to keep having it come back, especially spun-off ad-nauseum like how Bloom County became Outland became Opus (although there were a lot of great strips from all those series).
Though if you have all the Calvin and Hobbes books, you could read the series over and over again and have enough material for it to seem fresh. To this day, it's one of the few things (besides racist trolling) that make me laugh out loud. Seinfeld - not funny. Ellen Degeneres - not funny. Anything on TV, or released in the movies within the last 10 years - not funny.
Hilarious. [in8sworld.net]
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Tork on Wednesday June 11 2014, @08:15PM
Mr. Watterson wanted to leave Calvin uncorrupted. His fear, if I interpret his writings correctly, was that when it stopped being fun for him the comic would be ruined for all. Now whether he's right or wrong on that (I *still* love the first few seasons of the Simpsons), it's a respectable view. He's given us a treasure that will not corrode.
I do agree with you, though. I have a reoccurring nightmare that he's spent the last decades compiling a new Calvin and Hobbes book. It has no panel limitations, he's watercolored every image, and he spent exactly as much time as he wanted on each one. I go to a bookstore, I find the book, I flip through a few pages of Susie and the Snowmen. I buy the book, get in the car, start to drive home.. then I wake up before I've read it. >_
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Alfred on Wednesday June 11 2014, @09:06PM
I would hate to have that nightmare.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by physicsmajor on Wednesday June 11 2014, @11:53PM
To partially satisfy your Watterson cravings, check out the webcomic Max Overacts:
http://occasionalcomics.com/ [occasionalcomics.com]
It's what I thought was impossible: completely original, yet full of "the Watterson vibe" that made me love Calvin and Hobbes so much. This guy needs more readership, because he's absolutely top shelf.