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BIG BILL HELL'S said:
It's more likely he was talking about Charles Schulz, with whom he had a (long-running?) feud.
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I always thought he had something of a feud with Jim Davis, but maybe I am thinking of Berkeley Breathed and Bloom County. Watterson was not even beyond making fun of some of his own boomerism, with Calvin's father often sounding like the typical "IN MY TIMES THINGS WERE BETTER". It's also useful to know the context, he was working during the darkest ages of American 90ies comics so everything was incredibly edgy and incredibly childish. He had easy targets.

To think that there was an age when someone could make a career by being a political cartoonist. Someone still cares about newspaper comics? They're a dying media so I guess no one, and probably everything is completely poisoned. To think a complete fraud like Trudeau won fame and renown by being the most milquetoast and embarrassing baby boomer ever (I could write a dissertation on Doonesbury). Watterson was truly one of a kind.
 
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Captain Syrup said:
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Chinese political cartoon
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The tiger be like "uhhhhhh why do you think you three are on the same side as me? Last time I checked the Horse is still at war with us, the panda was sending its wumao bug fanatics to fight you and the bear was unloading its thousands of left over tanks and planes and it even flew your Migs for you."
 
Captain Syrup said:
He is the anti–Scott Adams in every conceivable dimension. I bought that Calvin & Hobbes tenth anniversary book and it’s just him ranting about art and dignity, and at one point he’s like, I did not become a cartoonist to be a factory foreman. And you just know he’s talking about the Garfield industrial complex.
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He has a very strict ethical system and does not ever compromise on it. He refused to let any merch be made because he felt it would debase his art, even though he could probably have been a billionaire on merch alone. So never ever buy anything infringing his intellectual property. It's one of the few forms of piracy I actually despise.
BIG BILL HELL'S said:
It's more likely he was talking about Charles Schulz, with whom he had a (long-running?) feud.
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The feud story was made up by journoscum, but it was about Berke Breathed. They're actually friends.

Watterson was very critical of the whole concept of massively exploiting franchises for all kinds of ridiculous merchandise, but never really targeted anyone personally for doing it. He just refused to participate himself. He didn't try to tear down anyone else.
 
BIG BILL HELL'S said:
It's more likely he was talking about Charles Schulz, with whom he had a (long-running?) feud.
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I doubt it, Peanuts was one of Watterson's main inspirations.
RSU 1741 said:
Watterson was not even beyond making fun of some of his own boomerism, with Calvin's father often sounding like the typical "IN MY TIMES THINGS WERE BETTER".
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Calvin's father was mostly based on Watterson's father, so he was making fun of him more than himself.

Captain Syrup said:
He is the anti–Scott Adams in every conceivable dimension. I bought that Calvin & Hobbes tenth anniversary book and it’s just him ranting about art and dignity, and at one point he’s like, I did not become a cartoonist to be a factory foreman. And you just know he’s talking about the Garfield industrial complex.
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There's an interview where he's jokingly asked about U.S. Acres (a lesser-known Jim Davis comic, about farm animals), as a way to get him to talk a bit about commercial comics, and Watterson just responds "I think U.S. Acres is an insult to intelligence".
 
Nuclear Poisoning said:
There's an interview where he's jokingly asked about U.S. Acres (a lesser-known Jim Davis comic, about farm animals), as a way to get him to talk a bit about commercial comics, and Watterson just responds "I think U.S. Acres is an insult to intelligence".
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U.S. Acres was always that punishment block at the end of the Garfield cartoon. Like, “Hey idiot, you didn’t change the channel, here’s some talking pigs.” And they never even showed Jon’s parents or Doc Boy. Absolute bullshit.

 
AnOminous said:
He has a very strict ethical system and does not ever compromise on it. He refused to let any merch be made because he felt it would debase his art, even though he could probably have been a billionaire on merch alone. So never ever buy anything infringing his intellectual property. It's one of the few forms of piracy I actually despise.
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I heard he hated that car sticker decal of Calvin peeing on things.
 
Nuclear Poisoning said:
I doubt it, Peanuts was one of Watterson's main inspirations.

Calvin's father was mostly based on Watterson's father, so he was making fun of him more than himself.


There's an interview where he's jokingly asked about U.S. Acres (a lesser-known Jim Davis comic, about farm animals), as a way to get him to talk a bit about commercial comics, and Watterson just responds "I think U.S. Acres is an insult to intelligence".
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I've completely forgotten anything about that and haven't even heard the name in years. He was probably right.
TeaBaggins said:
I heard he hated that car sticker decal of Calvin peeing on things.
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Everyone I've ever seen who had one of those is a total douche.
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Alarm clocks please.
 
TeaBaggins said:
I heard he hated that car sticker decal of Calvin peeing on things.
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My understanding from reading what he said about it and various other things is he hates it more because it's not true to Calvin than that it is infringing, an affront to him personally, etc. It's not who Calvin is.

Watterson knew two things - 1 - he was richer than he'd ever need to be just from the comics and books (and God knows he could make a million dollars any time he wanted to even now) and - 2 - merchandizing would lose not only creative control, but total control, because if it is just HIM and HIS dependent on his comic, he can say "enough" but if you're the owner/master of a billion dollar enterprise, saying "enough" is tantamount to firing an entire company.

He didn't really hate those who did it, but he did think it put burdens on them that he didn't want to shoulder.

(Even the things that people like and think "fit the style" of C&H are done without consultation or approval from the artist, and so you don't know that it fits what he sees it as - and it's likely nobody really can; apparently Shultz thought Charlie Brown was hilarious but to me he's incredibly depressing)
 
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