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Stephan pastis bill watterson6/8/2023 … It was just a silly idea, and I didn’t know Stephan, so I never pursued it, and years went by.” Stephen Pastis, the creator of “Pearls Before Swine”, by some miracle pulled Watterson out of a retirement which not only included the bittersweet end of “Calvin” but also didn’t include any sort of public appearance.Īccording to The Washington Post‘s Michael Cavina, Watterson had considered working with Pastis’ “Pearls” a few years ago: “I thought it might be funny for me to ghost ‘Pearls’ sometime, just to flip it all on its head. So hearing that Watterson made a comeback of sorts last week shocked me. All of them walked away after saying what needed to be said, and as a result, comic strips have never held the same significance for me. Generally speaking, when it comes to comic strips, there are three heroes for me: Gary Larson, Berke Breathed and Bill Watterson.Īll of them produced hilarious masterpieces in a finite amount of time - Larson with “The Far Side”, Breathed with “Bloom County” (sorry, his stuff on “Outland” didn’t quite work for me) and Watterson with perhaps my all-time favorite, “Calvin and Hobbes”.
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