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1. Dad (noyoushutthefuckupdad@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 00:49:37 JST Dad

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   • Dr. Btc
   @DrBtc better than he didn't stick around long enough to get annoying.
   
   >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.[35]
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   • Dad (noyoushutthefuckupdad@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 00:49:38 JST Dad

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     Watterson turned down tens, maybe hundreds of millions of dollars in merchandising deals that would have been easy and lucrative. Watterson rejects almost all interviews, and there are fewer photographs of him than Kentaro Miura. He even turned down a call from Steven Spielberg to have a talk about a possible Calvin & Hobbes animated movie.
     
     All because he loved his art.
   • Dr. Btc (drbtc@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 00:49:38 JST Dr. Btc

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     Shame he retired so soon
   • Dad (noyoushutthefuckupdad@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 00:49:39 JST Dad
     Watching this on my computer because SPC Movie Night hates documentaries.
     
     https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2222206/