Why did we never get anything else?

>>93028296

Wanting more is proof that you didn't understand the comic at all.

Sad.

>>93028296
Because the man finished the story he wanted to tell and had enough integrity not to sell out and whore his comic out for money.

>>93028296
Are we so up to our neck in franchises now that we cannot fathom a story that is a single complete work?

>>93028337
>>93028365

Eventually Watterson will have health issues in his old age, his royalty checks won't be enough to cover them, and he'll have no choice but to license Calvin & Hobbes or outright sell it to a corporation.

Either that, or when he dies whoever inherits his estate will license/sell it.

We've just got to play the waiting game a little bit longer.

>>93028405
You're the type of person who'd fuck a dead possum just to have an orgasm.

I'd rather live in a world where Calvin and Hobbes ended and exists in prepertuity as a single complete work than a hollowed out shell, over sold, over exposed, and emotionally killed in order to sell to the masses like a common street whore.

Let a masterpiece be a masterpiece.

Things end, and they are all the more beautiful because of that fact.

You prick.

>>93028504

Even if his estate doesn't sell out after he dies, C&H will enter the public domain eventually, then it'll be whored out by everyone, everywhere.

Trying to maintain the "purity" of your art is a pointless exercise. You're lucky if it lasts your lifetime. Because once your dead, either your descendants or copyright laws will fuck you over.

Might as well make a buck and live well while you can instead of wasting your life with a martyr complex.

>>93028405
I doubt someone like Watterson hasn't prepared for their future.

>>93028566
>I doubt someone like Watterson hasn't prepared for their future.

"Now son, promise me that after I die, you won't sell my IPs for hundreds of millions of dollars so you can retire at age 30."

"Uh, yeah, sure pops. I promise."

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>>93028556
>C&H will enter the public domain eventually

Yeah, sure.

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>This isn't as hard to understand as people try to make it. By the end of ten years, I'd said pretty much everything I had come there to say. It's always better to leave the party early. If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, ten, or twenty years, the people now "grieving" for Calvin and Hobbes would be wishing me dead and cursing newspapers for running tedious, ancient strips like mine instead of acquiring fresher, livelier talent. And I'd be agreeing with them. I think some of the reason Calvin and Hobbes still finds an audience today is because I chose not to run the wheels off it. I've never regretted stopping when I did.

The guy is one of the few people who understood when to gracefully step out of the spotlight.

>>93028602
You act like trusts don't exist. I bet you don't even plan estates for a living.

>>93028912
was meant for
>>93028602

>>93028862
>Dobson
kys

> In previous years, Watterson was known to sneak autographed copies of his books onto the shelves of the Fireside Bookshop, a family-owned bookstore in his hometown of Chagrin Falls, Ohio. However, after discovering that some were selling the autographed books online for high prices, he ended this practice, as well.

This made me sad.

>>93028296
Because childhood ends
If childhood doesn't end it becomes a really sad and pathetic thing, you don't want to be a 30 year old child

>>93028405
>Looking forward to the death of the author just so you can get more whater down sequel crap made by some soules corporation that doesn't care about the product

>>93028556
I sincerely hope that you die before that happens and you never get to see it

>>93028862
>the people now "grieving" for Calvin and Hobbes would be wishing me dead and cursing newspapers for running tedious, ancient strips like mine instead of acquiring fresher, livelier talent.
>fresher, livelier talent.
And yet my shitty local newspaper's single comics page is 90% legacy strips like Peanuts, Garfield, For Better or For Worse, Beetle Bailey, and Blondie.

>>93028365
>>93028337
>>93028332
>>93028504
>>93028862
Why does /co/ treat Calvin And Hobbes better than literally everything else? Was it really that good?

>>93029259
Yes.

>>93029259
It was pretty good but that barely has to do with this topic, wanting something to get milked forever is shitty.

>>93029259
I wouldn't call it better than anything else, but they're solid reads, and some damn good laughs.

>>93028556
It doesn't have fanart because it isn't popular, not because it's copyright protected. Silly

>>93028405
Man, anybody can write a follow up to a Shakespeare's play, it's still not a new Shakespeare's play.

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>>93029259

It's well made, and intelligent, and it never tried to be anything other than what it was.

And when Bill Watterson wanted to stop, he did.

Also for a fuckload of us it struck us right in our formative nostalgia years, and that shit is powerful.

>>93028296
>Why did we never get anything else?

Question: Do we deserve anything else?

>>93029259
Same reason as Final Fantasy 7. Nostalgia.

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have some very recent guest artwork Bill Watterson did.

and imagine that he makes a new comic filled with babes.

The guy is in a better place mentally than he has ever been and regularly sneaks shit into Bloom County as well as other things. He owes us nothing.

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>>93028862
>Licensing characters for money
>White knight furry who calls all men misogynists
>Marketable

>>93028912
Trust exists.

As does debt and taxes.

>>93029463
Where's this from? Does Watterson know how to internet now?

>>93028405
I don't want to join the echo chamber giving you shit. But that's a super poisonous attitude to have about art.

>>93029233
I think the party Watterson was referring to here: >>93028862 ended up being the comic strip medium as a whole. Because it's gone beyond dying; it's a vegetable on crummy life support now. When he quit, after Gary Larson quit and right before Charles Schultz passed from this earth, his life's work complete, newpaper strips just were never the same. Calvin and Hobbes was the last true masterpiece.

>>93028668
How dose /co/ fell about copyright duration being so long? When should a work enter the public domain?

It personally makes me sad to know that I will not live long enough to see any art made in my lifetime enter the public domain.

>>93031329
he did some guest strips for pearls before swine

>>93029259
Here you go senpai, you have some catching up:
http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1985/11/18

>>93033307
Why is this even a concern? I love knowing I have a birth right to my own creations.

Keep in mind all fanart ever is a copyright infringement. So we have firsthand experience that there is no hinderence to content(especially shitty content)

But I don't get why anyone would want continuation of a series that's been run by one person the whole time only to be written by someone else

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>>93031329
I have them saved, I'll post em

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>>93033977
there are 2 more before that one but they dont have Watterson art

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>>93031257
No, not trust as in him trusting his kids not to do shit. Trusts, with an s. It's a legal thing that allows a third party to hold an estate on various conditions.

>>93033901
>I love knowing I have a birth right to my own creations

In an ideal situation this is how copyright is supposed to work but in reality it rarely has and probably rarely will ever work this way.

>Why is this even a concern?

I don't think people should be able to own ideas for a 100+ years after they're dead.

>Keep in mind all fanart ever is a copyright infringement

This is one of the reason copyright law as it is today is ridiculous.

>I don't get why anyone would want continuation of a series that's been run by one person

It doesn't have to be a continuation tons of classic fiction are retelling or re-imaginings of older stories

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>>93034170
unrelated but I like the joke

>>93028405
There's a part of me that hopes Breathed somehow inherits C&H.

>>93028296
Because Bill Watterson was a man of great integrity. He created hiscomic on his terms, and when it was time to go, he ended it gracefully and in line with the series as a whole.

It may helper to know that we will never get anything beyond what we got, but it is for the best. We do not need a movie, or a sequel, what we got was perfect and we should risk blemishing it with some commercial gimmick.

>>93034199
It's fine as it is. We're not talking about ideas here, we're talking about cartoon/comic characters.

Retellings works for fairy tales or marvel/DC. Reboots suck most of the time everywhere else

>>93031329
He has basic internet, he just doesn't like to use it. He understands it's usefulness though

>>93034264
This got me

>>93034706
>we're talking about cartoon/comic characters

how are these not ideas?

copyright law as it is now is a fucking joke it's not about ensuring that a creator can profit off of his ideas it's about protecting corporations right to profit off of creators.

>>93028862
God i never wanted to punch someone in the face so bad

>>93029259
Consistently and wholeheartedly good. Calvin and Hobbes comics are funny, touching, and capture a beautiful feeling of childhood innocence and mysticism in the world. As a collection they're great, as individual strips they're great.

>>93034876
You're talking about patent or some other shit. You can't copyright ideas

>>93028862
My paper still runs Calvin & Hobbes strips.

>>93034905
At worst the jokes with punchlines fall a bit flat. At best they can be pretty good without a single word.

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>>93028862
Nick wanted to make a Bone movie in the 90s but the creator wouldn't let them because they said they would make it more "child friendly"

>>93028862
Some people think Peanuts outlived its usefulness.

>>93028405
Medicare can't deny you treatment for any reason, so he'll be fine.

>>93035509
So it would have been like that godawful Series of Unfortunate Events movie.

>>93035509
Now it's being done at WB as a trilogy by the director of Kung Fu Panda and the Little Prince

>>93029259
It raised the bar on newspaper comic strips at the time when everything else was stuck to the same 3 or 4 panel strips with cookie cutter Sunday panels. He wasn't afraid to lose publishers if it meant he could make better comics.

Wish he'd post some of his landscapes online for people to see.

The last rumor I heard in the early 2000's, that he paints them, photographs them, and then destroys/paints over them so no one can sell them or something.

I don't need more Calvin and Hobbes from him, but I'd love to see what else he's up to.

>>93034883
Wait, you mean Dobson or Watterson?

>>93037098
>that he paints them, photographs them, and then destroys/paints over them so no one can sell them or something.

Why not just write up a public domain release and get it notorized for each one?

>>93037141
Dobson obviously jesus christ, how did that guy even manage to get internet fame he can't draw or color for shit

>>93037266
His parents are well off and can afford their good for nothing son to make "art".

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>>93028296
It ended while Watrerson's ideas were still fresh, and the magic hadn't burned out yet. If it returned or was brought back by a new author, we would never get the same feeling that we did from the original work.

Haven't we learned by now not to wish on the monkey's paw?