Dilbert

[brettdale]

The right has Dilbert, the left has Calvin and Hobbes.

[gratuitous]

1. The right has Lee Greenwood

The left has Bruce Springsteen.

This is gonna be fun.

[spooky3]

2. The right has Kevin Sorbo and some piggish "suits."

The left has 98% of the rest of Hollywood.

[MurrayDelph]

4. The left

has people with talent.

[spooky3]

5. Good one! Nt

[IcyPeas]

3. Are you a Bill Watterson fan? Have you heard about his new project....

Overview:

From Bill Watterson, bestselling creator of the beloved comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, and John Kascht, one of America’s most renowned caricaturists, comes a mysterious and beautifully illustrated fable about what lies beyond human understanding.

In a fable for grown-ups by cartoonist Bill Watterson, a long-ago kingdom is afflicted with unexplainable calamities. Hoping to end the torment, the king dispatches his knights to discover the source of the mysterious events. Years later, a single battered knight returns.

For the book's illustrations, Watterson and caricaturist John Kascht worked together for several years in unusually close collaboration. Both artists abandoned their past ways of working, inventing images together that neither could anticipate—a mysterious process in its own right.

From The Guardian:

... compelling, provocative story that invites readers to examine their place in the universe and their responsibility to others and the planet we all share”, calling it “a fable that dares to intimate the big questions about our place in the universe”.

The book is a collaboration between Watterson and the celebrated caricaturist John Kascht, and it appears far bleaker than either illustrator’s earlier work. The few published panels are sombre and foreboding, presented in shades of gray. “The style of the writing, the style of the art is intensely different from Calvin and Hobbes. And I think that’s a very conscious decision on [Watterson’s] part. He would not ever want to be pigeonholed as just the Calvin and Hobbes guy,” Martell says.

“The artwork is very different from both [Watterson’s and Kascht’s] styles,” says Robb. “So I’m really curious to know how they collaborated on that and how that worked. Because it doesn’t really look like John and doesn’t really look like Bill to me.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/22/calvin-hobbes-bill-watterson-the-mysteries-new-book?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

[brettdale]

6. Thank you

I didnt know this!! Huge Bill Watterson/Calvin and Hobbes fans.

Cheers for the link.

[Johnny2X2X]

7. Here

The Right has Jon Voight

The Left has Robert DeNiro.

[sanatanadharma]

8. The 'right' isn't, but what's left is

The 'right' has rage, the 'left' has love

[scarletlib]

9. They do have rage, but I would use hate to contrast with love.

[leftyladyfrommo]

10. Adams is just destroying himself. nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. I have no issues with banning this idiot

I have no problem with papers banning Dilbert

Link to tweet

[Tommy Carcetti]

12. I enjoyed Calvin and Hobbes. Not a big fan of Bill Watterson himself.

He left a bad impression on me when he rather snidely and gratuitously trashed Garfield's creator Jim Davis.

I mean, I get it. He didn't want to do heavy merchandising of Calvin and Hobbes or continue on with it indefinitely, and that's a respectful decision on his part. But if other cartoonists wanted to merchandise their strips or continue their work on a long term basis, what's it to him?

He's making a comic strip, not working to cure cancer.

Besides, he lauded Charles Schulz (and rightfully so), who a) heavily merchandized Peanuts and b) continued to draw into his late 70s just before he died. So why go after other cartoonists by name for the same exact thing?

Calvin and Hobbes was a delightful and whimsical strip, but Watterson himself comes off as a smug, self-righteous jerk. Thankfully not a flaming racist asshole like Scott Adams, but I'm still not a fan of him personally beyond his work.