Bill Watterson the creator of the legendary comic strip Calvin and Hobbes broke a twenty-year silence this week. He had not given an interview since 1989. A proud Clevelander, Watterson sill lives in the greater Cleveland area. He answered a few questions for his hometown paper, The Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Clarion Content cannot help but wonder if he was influenced by the recent passing of one of the other all-time famous recluses, J.D. Salinger. Both men were brilliant thinkers in their own mediums. We can't help but believe that the explosion of media attention surrounding Salinger's death, and the subsequent speculation into the vacuum that Salinger left, had to influence Watterson's decision to air some of his positions now. Less is more up to a point, but leave the masses too blank a slate and they will make use of it. Read the whole Plain Dealer article here.
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2 comments:
nice, ive always loved calvin and hobbes and was quite disappointed
when he just stopped..
fortunately it was around the time of
the simpsons so....
its nice to see that interview with Watterson. thanx.
TM-
Thanks so much. Agreed that the Simpsons did fill a void that Calvin left. But Bart's cyncism may have presaged a cultural coarsening (Fox is often blamed) that has left us all a little poorer.
Popped over to the The Minstrel's Culinary Endeavors. Looks delicious!
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