Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it.
Bill WattersonThat's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse.
Bill WattersonA box of new crayons! Now theyโre all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon theyโll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
Bill WattersonI'd always enjoyed the comics more, and felt that as long as I was unemployed it would be a good chance to pursue that and see what response I could get from asyndicate, as I didn't have anything to lose at that point. So I drew up a comic strip - this was in 1980 - and sent it off and got rejected. I continued that for five years with different comic strip examples 'til finally Calvin and Hobbes came together. But it's been a long road.
Bill Watterson