- I think comics are something like folk art--sometimes breathtakingly kitschy, sometimes kooky and charming, and once in a while, as interesting and significant as any fine art.
- One of the reasons that Calvin's character is fun to write is that I often don't agree with him.
- I hope some day some historian will confirm I was the first cartoonist to use the world "booger" in a newspaper comic strip.
- Only thieves and vandals have made money on Calvin and Hobbes merchandise.
- Most people assume that Calvin is based on a son of mine or of memories of my own childhood. but the fact is I don't have children. and I was a quiet fairly obedient kid, almost Calvin's opposite.
- I have never given Calvin's parents names because as far as the strip is concerned they are only important as mom and dad.
- My strip is about private realities, the magic of imagination, and the specialness of a certain friendship. Who would believe in the innocence of a little kid and his stuffed tiger if their popularity was used to sell over priced kick knacks nobody needs?
- I went into cartooning to draw cartoons, not to run a corporate empire.
- Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie like the noodle incident which I've referred to in several strips is left to the readers imagination wheres its sure to be even outrageous.
- you can call them gripping you can call them graphic novels but comic books are still incredibly stupid.
- the nature of Hobbes reality does not interest me.
- cartoonist who think they can talk serious about life while using there strips charectors to sell boxer shorts are fooling them selves.
- people have asked me how you play Calvin ball its pretty simple you just make up the rules as you.
- for years they presured me to go on a limited licensing program they said would rule out making offensive products if i would just agree to go along with the rest but compromising my principals was offensive to me and i refused to corporate.
- approving of somebody elses work is not the same as doing it yourself in spite of what some cartoonists say.
- i don't want want Calvin wishing someone a happy anniversary and Hobbes being given an actors voice and i don't want the nature of Hobbes reality being decided by some doll maker.
- i never write a story with the ending in mind because i like it to surprise me trough tout.
- early on Calvin's parents were criticized for being unloving and needless sarcastic. but now that TV sitcoms r nothing more than a half hour of vicous insults. my strip looks heartwarming in comparison.
- i regret introducing uncle max into the strip.
- I clearly miscalculated how popular it would be to show Calvin urinating on a Ford logo.
- [on the unlicensed Calvin car decals] I figure that, long after the strip is forgotten, those decals are my ticket to immortality.
- tracer bullet stories are very time consuming so i dont attempt them often. im not alll familiar with film noir or detective novels so there just a]spoofs on cliches of the gere.
- my strip is low-tech one-man operation and i like it that way. its the only place in the world where everything works exactly the way i want it too.
- everybody's always looking for the next snoopy or Garfield and Calvin and Hobbes were imagined to be the perfect candidates mugs tv specials postors etc can turn the strip into a gold mine. the more i thought about merchandising however the less i liked it
- The nature of hobbes reality does not interest me and each strip goes out of its was to resolve the issue.
- i made a mistake early on by putting Calvin in cub scouts. Calvin and Hobbes need to be in there own world not with a group of kids Calvin is not the type of kid who join a group anyway the strips worked against his personality so i abandoned them. later i sent Calvin on camping trips with his parents and the fit the strip much better.
- i remember school being full of idiots like moe i think they spawn on damp locker room floors.
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