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Bill Watterson Interview

I've always had the utmost respect for Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson. He created, in my opinion, the greatest / most timeless comic strip known to man and he never tainted the experience by licensing their likeness for profit. In this interview he speaks to what life is like for him after 15 years of the strip being done; and 10 years of not really taking any interviews. It's a rather short piece but this struck a chord with me:

It's always better to leave the party early. If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now "grieving" for "Calvin and Hobbes" would be wishing me dead and cursing newspapers for running tedious, ancient strips like mine instead of acquiring fresher, livelier talent. And I'd be agreeing with them.

I think some of the reason "Calvin and Hobbes" still finds an audience today is because I chose not to run the wheels off it.

Somehow I respect the man even more now than I already did.