Comments on: “Calvin and Hobbes” Creator Grants First Interview In 20 Years

By: mykeyhope

mykeyhope — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:20:52 +0000

In October of 2005, approximately 10 years after his retirement, Bill Watterson responded to 15 reader questions through his publisher:
http://www.andrewsmcmeel.com/calvinandhobbes/interview.html

By: Peter Ha

Peter Ha — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:03:06 +0000

@kabong30 cheers to that.

By: kabong30

kabong30 — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:19:40 +0000

The guy just does not interview that well. It’s not a secret! I respect the guy for not trying to milk his creation and I think it gives Calvin and Hobbes a legitimacy that most “comics” never get. Now he’s just a dude, off doing his thing. What do you want from the guy? It reminds me of the scene from Forrest Gump where he just decides to stop running, and the people following him get angry. “NOW WHAT DO WE DO?!?!?!” Just accept the strip for what it is and love it and read it.

By: mimsysnark

mimsysnark — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:16:29 +0000

Hooray, Calvin & Hobbes! I didn’t so much read it in the newspaper as buy all the books and read (and laugh) repeatedly, but I grew up with Calvin & Hobbes and it still stands as my favorite comic strip of all time. As a kid I got that it was funny but poignant, and I feel that perhaps even more strongly as an embittered, cynical (yet sometimes optimistic) adult.
Thanks for the link to the article, although I do feel like it was a rather wasted interview opportunity. Could they have been any more generic?

By: dennitzio

dennitzio — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:13:59 +0000

This ranks up there as one of the most snoozy interviews since Larry King scored the one with Larry King. They could have made something interesting up or used had a kid with bad spelling write up the copy. Anything to make the creator of the most important comic strip in the last 1/4 century seem at least a little bit, well, alive…

At least we found out JD Salinger attended church roast beef dinners! He… eats… meat! Roasted! In a church!