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I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
Bill Watterson
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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
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Hobbes
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Too often cartoonists just look at other cartoonists and, after a lot of inbreeding, everyone has the same funny look. The challenge of drawing is that there is no one right way to visually describe something. It's a good thing to confront your limitations and preconceptions every so often.
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Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.
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I'm willing to take the blame if the strip goes down the drain, and I want the credit if it succeeds. So long as it has my name on it, I want it to be mine.
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I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family.
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