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09:16 - Watterson Preplugged
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Wow. You know... looking at the very earliest Calvin & Hobbes strips, I'm always inclined to think of it as "unrefined", "immature", and "simplistic", particularly compared to how high-flyingly artistic the later strips became.
But six years earlier, when Watterson was in college, he was already drawing cartoons for his campus paper, and while it has the look of the early C&H about it, it looks anything but unrefined. Looks, indeed, like it could have propelled him down a career path in the editorial cartooning business, in which he'd have immediately been able to establish himself with art easily the equal of anything up to the Cox & Forkum level.
Awesome. And that's some of the very earliest stuff right there, in 1979. How on earth did he get to that point so quickly?
Via Cartoon Brew.
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Brian Tiemann
