Dear Mr. Watterson

00:00:47 -A comic strip, to me, is a story

00:04:32 But it's one of those rare things

00:07:33 -He's really created characters that, I think

00:11:01 Other than to say, "this is every one of us."

00:14:32 -Well, there were the snowballs, as well as the snowmen.

00:17:47 Bandstand.

00:21:17 -'78.

00:24:56 "you know, he inspires all of us to do a little bit better."

00:28:04 And sometimes it's not just the writing.

00:31:36 Watterson said, in his first hiatus

00:35:09 And he did create "calvin and hobbes."

00:38:20 Where he's in kind of a fantasy world

00:42:11 About relationships, about the world.

00:45:39 Meant there was less chance for visuals

00:49:17 And the art before commerce has to come first."

00:52:30 About how merchandising can change the characters

00:55:50 I don't want my characters

00:58:43 To anything and anyone in the world.

01:02:39 -It won't be in the public consciousness

01:06:07 I knew a guy that could get phone numbers

01:10:42 The market is digitalizing, and it's atomizing.

01:14:39 Of "something under the bed is drooling" or "yukon ho!"

01:18:01 As much as I love some of the strips for the humor

01:22:05 -There's just something magical about that particular strip