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I know. It's horrible.

Calvin wouldn't see through Tate. We'd get a good 16/24 panel arc of him treating Susie like shit getting that turned on him over and over and then realizing he's a grifrer imbecile. And Hobbes would make him feel real stupid about every watching him from the jump.

Don’t have to imagine! He wrote a new book recently called “the mysteries” that’s short and very good and particularly subtle

I would imagine he's far, far more disdainful of generative AI than even its biggest critics

Waterson's essays at the front of the 10th anniversary books were huge influences on young me

Did you check out the very short graphic book he did the background art for a few years ago called THE MYSTERIES? It's just a small thing, very simple but predictably great, mixing optimism and pessimism about the state of things.

When I was a kid, way too long into adulthood, I had the autism fixation on correcting grammar for accuracy of tense ("that one movie I Seen") the current moral rehabilitation of creole and regional dialect as valid did not yet exist Similarly, Many autist have not course corrected for internet

Every household has 8+ screens and every screen is full of advertisements and information, devoid of knowledge and culture. Content made to make money and further content to make even more money.

Watterson made bank and then backed the fuck away from it all. Wish I could do the same. Sadly, I didn't create one of the greatest comic strips of all time.

I was genuinely impressed with his ability to draw beautifully accurate fighter aircraft Oh and Tracer Bullet, Private Eye

Yes! I’ve also reflected recently on the gripes against TV that I vaguely remember from the 80s and 90s from Cranky Old People and realized, ooop! They knew what was up. TV show hosts running the country. People streaming their lives for 12 hours a day, everything is a “take” etc

Hopefully at least in part satisfied with his legacy of a mix of insight and whimsey being part of multiple generations of culture.

Oh, he always seemed like a profound humanist and fierce art purist. He spends his days chewing through concrete in a blind rage, I imagine.

Butlerian Jihad with Calvin & Hobbes as sacred texts when?

I mean, I’m speaking about the social anxieties around TV during that era, not the content of the TV shows themselves

I know a lot of problematic stuff about him came out subsequently but David Foster Wallace’s essays on media and TV really left an impression on me when I first read them.

Don't miss @rubenbolling.bsky.social's Flowers for Trinitron:

People known for simply being known are a plague

It did a good job not losing sight of the fundamental absurdities, plus she spends a lot of time dunking on Naomi Wolf, which breaks up the depressing bits

This frame in particular feels very influencer like.