I think comics overall would be better. I think there's a tremendous potential to be tapped.
Bill WattersonAh, the life of a newspaper cartoonist - how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
Bill WattersonSpecifically, Iโd like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since itโs less wasteful.
Bill WattersonMy problem is that I don't paint ambitiously. It's all catch and release - just tiny fish that aren't really worth the trouble to clean and cook.
Bill WattersonSaturday morning cartoons do that now, where they develop the toy and then draw the cartoon around it, and the result is the cartoon is a commercial for the toy and the toy is a commercial for the cartoon. The same thing's happening now in comic strips; it's just another way to get the competitive edge. You saturate all the different markets and allow each other to advertise the other, and it's the best of all possible worlds. You can see the financial incentive to work that way. I just think it's to the detriment of integrity in comic strip art.
Bill Watterson