Quote

I think comics overall would be better. I think there's a tremendous potential to be tapped.

Bill Watterson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
Author
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Washington
District of Columbia
Overall
Comics
Tremendous
Potential
Better
Would
Think
Thinking
Tapped

More quotes by Bill Watterson

Image
Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?
Bill Watterson
Image
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
Bill Watterson
Image
You can make your superhero a psychopath, you can draw gut-splattering violence, and you can call it a graphic novel, but comic books are still incredibly stupid.
Bill Watterson
Image
It seems the less I do and say, the better everyone likes my work!
Bill Watterson
Image
The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
Bill Watterson
Image
At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.
Bill Watterson
Image
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.
Bill Watterson
Image
So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.
Bill Watterson
Image
It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out.
Bill Watterson
Image
Calvin the zombie searches for food. Horribly, the undead feed upon the living! ...Although, in a pinch, a PBJ will do, if you eat it messily enough.
Bill Watterson
Image
As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don't even like riding in elevators.
Bill Watterson
Image
Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension.
Bill Watterson
Image
Mom’s not feeling well. So I’m making her a get well card.” “That’s thoughtful of you.” See, on the front it says, ‘Get Well Soon’ … and on the inside it says,’Because my bed isn’t made, my clothes need to be put away and I’m hungry. Love Calvin.’ Want to sign it?” “Sure, I’m hungry too
Bill Watterson
Image
Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
Bill Watterson
Image
Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development. I assume they're either homages or satiric riffs, and are not intended to be taken too seriously as works in their own right. Otherwise I should be talking to a copyright lawyer.
Bill Watterson
Image
I still read newspaper comics, but without much hope for their future.
Bill Watterson
Image
I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.
Bill Watterson
Image
Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
Bill Watterson
Image
They can't chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can't contain it! Laws can't restrain it! Authority has no power over it!
Bill Watterson
Image
You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.
Bill Watterson