Latest Bill Watterson Quotes from Interviews

• It seems the less I do and say, the better everyone likes my work!

  Bill Watterson

  Likes, Seems

  Source: www.annistonstar.com

• As "Calvin and Hobbes" went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity. One of the jokes I really like is that the fantasies are drawn more realistically than reality, since that says a lot about what's going on in Calvin's head.

  Bill Watterson

  Writing, Reality, Drawing

  Source: www.annistonstar.com

• Although I'm certainly glad cartoons are finally getting some respect as an art, I'm fairly ambivalent to see cartooning as a legitimate academic offering. If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them.

  Bill Watterson

  Art, Offering, Needs

  Source: www.annistonstar.com

• Es gratificante oír eso de gente a la que le importa el arte del cómic. Nunca sé qué pensar cuando alguien me escribe para decirme: "Calvin y Hobbes es la mejor tira del periódico. Me gusta incluso más que Nancy".

  Bill Watterson

  Arte, Escritura, Personas

  Fuente: bob.bigw.org

• The writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each.

  Bill Watterson

  Writing, Drawing, Vices

  Fuente: bob.bigw.org

• When I get to the drawing, I really enjoy taking a big chunk of time and working on the drawing and nothing else. That allows me to make sure that I'm really challenging the art, making each picture as interesting as I can.

  Bill Watterson

  Art, Drawing, Interesting

  Fuente: bob.bigw.org

• I've never sat down to quantify how many hours I actually spend on the strip. I use the deadlines to estimate my progress; each month I know that I have to produce so many strips, and by the end of the month I'll make sure that I have.

  Bill Watterson

  Progress, Each Month, Use

  Fuente: bob.bigw.org

• I write separately from the inking up. I'm sure this varies from cartoonist to cartoonist; I find that the writing is the hard part and the drawing is the fun part.

  Bill Watterson

  Fun, Writing, Drawing

  Fuente: bob.bigw.org

• Obviously the great thing about this job is the complete freedom of the schedule. So long as I meet the deadline, they don't care when I work or how I work.

  Bill Watterson

  Jobs, Long, Schedules

  Fuente: bob.bigw.org

• Si se da un poco de crédito al concepto del artista, creo que hay que permitirse un poco los excesos, porque eso refleja la personalidad del escritor. Ahora bien, si un chiste es de mal gusto o no tiene gracia, vale, eso es otra cosa, pero la forma de elaborar un chiste es realmente el trabajo del escritor, y no creo que esa técnica deba estar sujeta a ninguna restricción editorial.

  Bill Watterson

  Trabajo, Pensamiento, Artista

  Fuente: bob.bigw.org

• My 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 Watterson

  Tiny, Problem, Trouble

• Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development. I assume they're either homages or satiric riffs, and are not intended to be taken too seriously as works in their own right. Otherwise I should be talking to a copyright lawyer.

  Bill Watterson

  Taken, Artist, Talking

  Source: mentalfloss.com

• Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.

  Bill Watterson

  Architect, Form, Function

  Source: mentalfloss.com

• All the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and versatile, so I think they'll continue to find relevance one way or another. But they definitely won't be the same as what I grew up with.

  Bill Watterson

  Thinking, Media, Looks

  Source: mentalfloss.com

• Obviously the role of comics is changing very fast. On the one hand, comics are widely accepted and taken seriously. On the other hand, the mass media is disintegrating, and audiences are atomizing. I suspect comics will have less widespread cultural impact and make a lot less money.

  Bill Watterson

  Taken, Impact, Media

• I think comics overall would be better. I think there's a tremendous potential to be tapped.

  Bill Watterson

  Thinking, Would Be

  Fuente: bob.bigw.org

• If you've ever compared a film to a novel it's based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It's inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie's needs get served.

  Bill Watterson

  Media, Different, Needs

  Source: mentalfloss.com

• I'm willing to take the blame if the strip goes down the drain, and I want the credit if it succeeds. So long as it has my name on it, I want it to be mine.

  Bill Watterson

  Names, Long, Credit

  Fuente: bob.bigw.org

• I don't enjoy lettering very much, but that's the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.

  Bill Watterson

  Writing, Reflection, Way

  Fuente: bob.bigw.org

• The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.

  Bill Watterson

  Special, World, Admire

  Fuente: bob.bigw.org

• Garry Trudeau is the only cartoonist with the clout to get his strip published large enough to accomodate extended dialogue. It's ashame.

  Bill Watterson

  Enough, Dialogue, Clout

  Fuente: bob.bigw.org

• I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.

  Bill Watterson

  Paper, Standards, Higher

  Fuente: bob.bigw.org

• Saturday 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

  Morning, Art, Integrity

  Fuente: bob.bigw.org

• If you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well.

  Bill Watterson

  Character, Stereotype, Plastic

  Fuente: bob.bigw.org

• United Features me había dado un contrato de desarrollo, lo que significaba que iba a trabajar exclusivamente con ellos y, en lugar de completar todo por mi cuenta y entregárselo a ellos y que lo rechazaran o lo aceptaran, estaba trabajando mucho más directamente con el sindicato, entregando lotes más pequeños con mucha más frecuencia y recibiendo comentarios sobre ellos. La idea era que me ayudaran a desarrollar la tira y luego, suponiendo que les gustara, se convertiría en un contrato normal de distribución.

  Bill Watterson

  Ideas, Development, Flow

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