625 Quotes by Bill Watterson

I’ve been interested in cartooning all my life. I read the comics as a kid, and I did cartoons for high school publications – the newspaper and yearbook and soon. In college, I got interested in political cartooning and did political cartoons.

In a comic strip, you can suggest motion and time, but it’s very crude compared to what an animator can do. I have a real awe for good animation.

I’ve nearly started!

Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I’d say our afternoon just got booked solid!

Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?

I guess I have a gift for expressing pedestrian tastes. In a way, it’s kind of depressing.

It’s always better to leave the party early.

As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don’t even like riding in elevators.

You can make your superhero a psychopath, you can draw gut-splattering violence, and you can call it a “graphic novel,” but comic books are still incredibly stupid.