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In lugnet.space, Jon Palmer writes:
> "Tom Boucher" <trekkie@spamyou.nomorestars.com> wrote in message
> news:G5tx1s.2tE@lugnet.com...
> > He was kinda odd though and I'd worry about him suing everyone. He quit
> > doing Calvin and Hobbes (much to my great despair) because he couldn't • stand
> > the pressure anymore.
>
> Yes I've also heard that he was eccentric. this seems to be a quality of the
> best cartoonists.
> >
> > I really stopped reading comics the day the last Calvin was printed. They
> > could of at least ran the re-runs like they do with Peanuts.
>
> Same here. My favorites were Calvin and Hobbes and Bloom County (Outland was
> decent but I really missed the daily strips) and of course I'd have to say
> the Far Side. I'm completely with you on the despair. I actually get
> incredibly sad when I look in the newspaper and don't see my old favorite
> strips. Its very akin to the feeling I got when Jim Henson died. I'm
> optimistic that another good strip will come along or that maybe there is
> even a good one out there now (I suppose Dilbert is fairly good but) but
> its hard to look when you open the paper and see all of these base, poorly
> drawn, shrunken down strips. I believe comic strips can be a true and
> sophisticated art form capable of moving the reader. I'm sorry but Beetle
> Baily and Blondie just don't do it for me at all.
>
> 2 cents
> -Jon
I agree. Bloom County and Calvin & Hobbes were my favourite. I
particularly loved Calvin's wild imagination and introspective look at
overly-adult situations, and Berkley Breathed's increadible ability at
political and social satire. Truely they were two dailies that were needed
all too much during the time that they were ran. I think Dilbert took over
in the nineties along with corporate downsizing, but with the downsizing
went the childlike humor of the the other two strips. Sort of like growing
up, and that is a tough thing to swallow right when you're entering your
dark ages.
THANK GOODNESS I REDISCOVERED MY FAVORITE MEDIUM!
:)
Trev
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| (...) It's really too bad. But where did he go? Wouldn't he have published more books by now? Someone I know, and does not lie, claims to be related to Bill Waterson. A distant cousin, or something. There is no reason to doubt this, so I believe it. (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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