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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
Author
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Washington
District of Columbia
Language
Comic

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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 always think of Popeye and Barney Google as quintessential comic strips in that old rollicky, slapstick way we've sort of lost.
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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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It must be hard to cook if you anthropomorphisize your vegetables.
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I wasn't having any luck getting accepted anyway and it forced me to re-examine what it was that I really wanted to do. In my experience in political cartooning, I was never one of those people who read the headlines and foams at the mouth with rabid opinion that I've just got to get down on paper.
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The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
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My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
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If you've ever compared a film to a novel it's based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It's inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie's needs get served.
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Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules and rewards.
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It's gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy.
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I'm not a vegetarian! I'm a dessertarian!
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The problem with people is that they're only human.
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Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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No sport is less organized than Calvinball.
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In a comic strip, you can suggest motion and time, but it's very crude compared to what an animator can do. I have a real awe for good animation.
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Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
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There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family.
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In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.
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It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw.
Bill Watterson