Timeless advice on integrity and the creative life from Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson (b. July 5, 1958), who delivered one of the best commencement addresses of all time.
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The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
On this day in 1990, Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson gave his magnificent Kenyon College commencement address about integrity and the creative life.
Advice on life from Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson (b. July 5, 1958) – one of the greatest commencement addresses of all time.
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May 20, 1990: Advice on life and creative integrity from Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson’s fantastic Kenyon College commencement address, one of the greatest commencement addresses of all time.
Every artist learns through imitation.
In this rare interview, interview-averse Calvin & Hobbes creator Bill Watterson echoes Mark Twain’s notion that “all ideas are second-hand” and Virginia Woolf’s assertion that the essence of art is imitation.
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You may be surprised to find how quickly daily routine and the demands of “just getting by” absorb your waking hours. You may be surprised matters of habit rather than thought and inquiry. You may be surprised to find how quickly you start to see your life in terms of other people’s expectations rather than issues.
Calvin & Hobbes creator Bill Watterson‘s timeless advice on life and creative integrity
Every artist learns through imitation.
In this interview with Bill Watterson, the beloved Calvin & Hobbes creator echoes Mark Twain, Henry Miller, and Virginia Woolf.
Pair with Watterson’s timeless advice on life and creative integrity.
Personally, I like paper and ink better than glowing pixels, but to each his own. Obviously the role of comics is changing very fast. On the one hand, I don’t think comics have ever been more widely accepted or taken as seriously as they are now. 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. I’m old enough to find all this unsettling, but the world moves on. 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.
Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson on the evolving role of the comic strip in today’s culture. Complement with Watterson’s remarkable 1990 commencement address on creative integrity, then revisit the comic genre’s finest masterpieces of the past year.
Trailer for Dear Mr. Watterson, a documentary about the beloved creator of Calvin & Hobbes. Complement with Watterson’s timeless 1990 Kenyon College commencement address on creative integrity.
The ever-delightful Zen Pencils adapt Calvin & Hobbes creator Bill Watterson’s timeless advice on integrity and the creative life in a comic.
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It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves. And with all due respect to John Stuart Mill, maybe utilitarianism is overrated. If I’ve learned one thing from being a cartoonist, it’s how important playing is to creativity and happiness.
Wise words from Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson, born on July 5, 1958.
In response to Kierkegaard’s meditation on the relationship between creativity and anxiety, reader Diego Viarengo sends this perfectly matched Calvin and Hobbes cartoon.
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Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules and rewards.
The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson in his timeless Kenyon College commencement address, May 20, 1990.