Time Mag's Top 10 Famous Recluse Artists

[David Morris]

Facebook daily Calvin & Hobbes
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Daily-Calvin-and-Hobbes/415072388578487


On Thursday, July 10, 2014, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:

> If only for the snowmen.
>
> http://www.chase3000.com/userpages/calvinhobbes/
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 8:49 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','fqmorris at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> Watching "Dear Mr. Watterson" on Netflix, and learn the the creator of
>> Calvin & Hobbes shuns a celebrity existence. He is #7 on the list. TRP is
>> #8.
>>
>>
>> http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1902376_1902378_1902435,00.html
>>
>> As author of *Calvin and Hobbes*, the beloved comic strip about a
>> mischievous 6-year-old and his stuffed tiger, Bill Watterson's work
>> appeared in more than 2,400 newspapers worldwide. He was the youngest
>> person to receive the National Cartoonists Society's highest honor, the
>> Reuben Award — a prize he would win a total of three times. Throughout his
>> career, Watterson consistently resisted pressure from publishers to
>> merchandise his comic, believing that it would devalue the characters.
>>
>> Despite a large and passionate fan following, Watterson retired the strip
>> in 1995, citing frustration with the constraints of daily deadlines and
>> small panels. He has since retreated from the public eye, declining
>> interviews and public appearances and refusing to sign autographs or
>> license his characters. For a time, Watterson stashed autographed copies of
>> his books on the shelves of a local family-owned bookstore — until fans
>> started selling them for higher prices. It remains to be seen if the world
>> will hear from Watterson again.
>>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20140710/875a5025/attachment.html>