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It’s always better to leave the party early. 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 instead of acquiring fresher, livelier talent. And I’d be agreeing with them. I think some of the reason “Calvin and Hobbes” still finds an audience today is because I chose not to run the wheels off it.

It’s always better to leave the party early. 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 instead of acquiring fresher, livelier talent. And I’d be agreeing with them. 

I think some of the reason “Calvin and Hobbes” still finds an audience today is because I chose not to run the wheels off it.

90 notes Date: 02.03.10 Time: 23:12 PM
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    Most favorite cartoonist ever. Simply the best. (I have every collection except the book “Something Under the Bed is...
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    *coff* Garfield *coff*
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    People nowadays need to learn from him. Undeniably, Watterson is one of the best comic artists in history.
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    This man is extraordinary.
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    youmightfindyourself
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    This man single-handedly enriched my childhood. Reading his comics builds character XD
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    It’s always better to leave the party early. If I had rolled along with the strip’s popularity and repeated myself for...
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    Hobbes was my obsession as a boy
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    Brilliant man, brilliant talent.
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    youmightfindyourself:...It’s always better to leave the party early. If I had rolled along...
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    Bill Watterson !
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