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                               A rare interview

> **Christie:** Well, let's talk about your peers for a bit.
>  **Watterson:** You're gonna get me in trouble.
>  **Christie:** No, no; you can say anything you want.
>  **Watterson:** Yeah, that's what's going to get me into trouble.
>  **Christie:** What about Gary Larson?
>  **Watterson:** I really like the lunacy of The Far Side. It's a one-panel
> strip so it's a slightly different animal than a four-panel strip like
> mine. I don't really compare one-panel strips to four-panels strips because
> there are different opportunities with each. Larson's working with one
> picture and a handful of words, and given that, I think he's one of the
> most inventive guys in comics. The four-panel strip has more potential for
> storyline and character involvement than just a single panel. But I do
> enjoy his stuff a lot.
>  **Christie:** What about Jim Davis?
>  **Watterson:** Uh…Garfield is…(long pause)…consistent.
>
>

“Calvin and Hobbes at Martijn's—Interview [1]”

This is probably about the only interview Bill Watterson did. I'm a big fan
of both Calvin and Hobbes and of Bill Watterson.

And even though I met Jim Davis (April 20, 1981 at 2:30 pm in Lauderdale
Lakes Mall, which doesn't exist anymore), I can say for certain that Garfield
is … consistent (although the earlier strips were much better than what is
going on nowadays).

Update on Wednesday, October 18^th, 2006

I found another interview [2]!


[1] http://www.reemst.com/calvin_and_hobbes/author/intrvw.htm
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2006/10/18.1

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