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