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To: Lorianne
"Ten years ago Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes, left newspaper cartooning for painting."

...and Calvin and Hobbes went touring America on the back of pickup trucks, relieving their bladders as they pleased. I do miss that comic stip.

3 posted on 11/08/2005 11:05:20 PM PST by MilesVeritatis (Beware the fury of a patient US military)
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To: MilesVeritatis

When asked why he never licensed C & H commercially, Watterson said, "I greatly underestimated the market for Calvin pissing on a Ford logo".


6 posted on 11/08/2005 11:14:12 PM PST by fat city ("The nation that controls magnetism controls the world.")
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To: MilesVeritatis

Oh yeah- all that "pickup truck art" is black-marketed- Waterson has nothing to do with it.


7 posted on 11/08/2005 11:16:33 PM PST by fat city ("The nation that controls magnetism controls the world.")
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