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Creator of Calvin & Hobbes Returns for Three Guest Strips

posted by Woods on Wednesday June 11 2014, @05:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-should-start-demanding-full-page-color-department-names dept.

skullz writes:

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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 11 2014, @07:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 11 2014, @07:57PM (#54264)

    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

    by tynin (2013) on Wednesday June 11 2014, @08:03PM (#54270) Journal

    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

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Wednesday June 11 2014, @08:20PM (#54279) Homepage

    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.

    " It troo! Dat darn kahlfin stole ma spacechip! "

    Hilarious. [in8sworld.net]