Chapelle doesn’t want his fans to watch his show anymore

[DesiDucati]

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Thank you for this!

 

[Abacinator]

I looked up this Bill Watterson guy and his comics are really funny! What amazing is that I think his comics aren’t just for little kids and have a lot of do with advanced topics for adults. I’m surprised there’s barly merchandise of his comics. Now I figured out the meaning of those stickers I see on so many cars.

Bill's own words. Those stickers don't at all represent his work.

[L]icensing is inconsistent with what I’m trying to do with Calvin and Hobbes… [it] isn’t a gag strip… The humor is situational, and often episodic. It relies on conversation, and the development of personalities and relationships… To explore character, you need lots of time and space. Note pads and coffee mugs just aren’t appropriate vehicles for what I’m trying to do here. I’m not interested in removing all the subtlety from my work to condense it for a product… I have no aversion to obscene wealth, but that’s not my motivation either. I think to license Calvin and Hobbes would ruin the most precious qualities of my strip and, once that happens, you can’t buy those qualities back.

I’m convinced that licensing would sell out the soul of Calvin and Hobbes. The world of a comic strip is much more fragile than most people realize. Once you’ve given up its integrity, that’s it. I want to make sure that never happens. Instead of asking what’s wrong with rampant commercialism, we ought to be asking, “What justifies it?”

 

[TylerW]

Bill's own words. Those stickers don't at all represent his work.

The only good thing about those stickers is that they've been bootlegged for so long and the copies have become so derivative of each other is that the kid in there is almost unrecognizable as Calvin.

 

[berth]

One of my favorite stickers was an ancient Spaceman Spiff (in his space ship), as one of those white decals, on the back of my helmet.

Watterson eschewed all merchandising save his books, as he wants the comics to speak for themselves.

He's a comics purist and had long battles with his syndicate over control of the space he was alloted in newspapers.

Him and Berkley Breathed defined comics in the 80s and early 90s. Everything else was pretty much drek in comparison.

You can do far worse than idling away a few hours catching up on Calvin and his hijinks.

 

[wazzuFreddo]

My oldest is reading my old Calvin and Hobbs books. It is great seeing another generation enjoy it.

 

[Johndicezx9]

Made me think of this...

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[Eldritch]

Made me think of this...

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If that strip was more that way I would have totally dug it.

I used to read it in the funny papers when I was a kid, but never understood the excitement for Bill Waterson's work.

Gary Larson or Jhonen Vasquez, those guys wrote strips I loved when I was a kid that I can still go back to today and they have staying power, I still enjoy their work.

Each their own I guess.

 

[berth]

If that strip was more that way I would have totally dug it.

You mean more chainsaws? or shock therapy?

Because the strip was almost entirely this, we just rarely saw the parents POV. But it was certainly there.

I think someone else did a comic of putting Calvin on medication that "killed" Hobbes. I don't recall if it was Waterson or somebody else.

 

[TylerW]

If that strip was more that way I would have totally dug it.

I used to read it in the funny papers when I was a kid, but never understood the excitement for Bill Waterson's work.

Gary Larson or Jhonen Vasquez, those guys wrote strips I loved when I was a kid that I can still go back to today and they have staying power, I still enjoy their work.

Each their own I guess.

It's a comic about childhood, friendship and the power of imagination. It ended long before Watterson ran out of ideas for it, so it was consistently funny and heartfelt and meaningful for its entire run, instead of a cash grinder that so many great comics eventually turn into.

I scarce to describe much of anything as perfect, but Calvin & Hobbes absolutely is.

 

[Eldritch]

It's a comic about childhood, friendship and the power of imagination. It ended long before Watterson ran out of ideas for it, so it was consistently funny and heartfelt and meaningful for its entire run, instead of a cash grinder that so many great comics eventually turn into.

I scarce to describe much of anything as perfect, but Calvin & Hobbes absolutely is.

Yeah, I think you are right, that is really it for me. The whole basis of the strip is an appeal to fundamental humanity, which is something I have always found kind of repugnant even as a very small child.

 

[nbean16]

Dave Chapelle is a brilliant and troubled individual but so are the people that run HBO and Netflix.
Capitalism can be a bitch sometimes.

Troubled how? Seems like a pretty reasonable and well balanced guy to me.

 

[Eldritch]

Troubled how? Seems like a pretty reasonable and well balanced guy to me.

He is now that he is grown, but comedians usually have a lot of personal problems when they were younger, he is no exception.