I still read newspaper comics, but without much hope for their future. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I think comics overall would be better. I think there's a tremendous potential to be tapped. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“There are few things less comforting than a tiger who's been up too late.” — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
You can make your superhero a psychopath, you can draw gut-splattering violence, and you can call it a "graphic novel," but comic… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I always think of "Popeye" and "Barney Google" as quintessential comic strips in that old rollicky, slapstick way we've sort of lost. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
In a comic strip, you can suggest motion and time, but it's very crude compared to what an animator can do. I… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
All the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Although I'm certainly glad cartoons are finally getting some respect as an art, I'm fairly ambivalent to see cartooning as a legitimate… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
We consume everything like potato chips. In this environment, I suspect the cartoonist's connection with readers is likely to be superficial and… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Too often cartoonists just look at other cartoonists and, after a lot of inbreeding, everyone has the same funny look. The challenge… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
As "Calvin and Hobbes" went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity. One of the jokes I really like is… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Obviously the role of comics is changing very fast. On the one hand, comics are widely accepted and taken seriously. On the… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
It's gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I'd always enjoyed the comics more, and felt that as long as I was unemployed it would be a good chance to… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Saturday morning cartoons do that now, where they develop the toy and then draw the cartoon around it, and the result is… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Amazingly, much of the best cartoon work was done early on in the medium's history. The early cartoonists, with no path before… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Cincinnati at that time was also beginning to realize it had major cartooning talent in Jim Borgman, at the city's other paper,… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do. — Bill Watterson Copy Share
For your information, I'm staying like this, and everyone else can just get used to it! If people don't like me the way I… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us. — Bill Watterson Copy Share
As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
Miss Wormwood: Calvin, your test was an absolute disgrace! It's obvious you haven't read any of the material. Our first president was not Chef… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
Calvin: Today for show and tell, I've brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake! I think we might all learn a lesson… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
United Features had given me a development contract, which meant I was to work exclusively with them and rather than completing everything on my… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art. — Bill Watterson Copy Share
If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
I tell you all this because it's worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success. You will do well to… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
By golly, life's too darn short to waste time trying to please every meddlesome moron who's got an idea how I ought to be!… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
