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An Interview with Bill Watterson (1987)

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Re: An Interview with Bill Watterson (1987)

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I don't know. The farside is pretty good, as well as Pearls Before Swine. Oh, and Cyanide and Happiness. None of them reach the meta level of social/theological commentary that C&H did, but they're still really, really good on their own, doing their own things.

...theological?

Sorry, I tend to put the concept of man's place in the universe into theology; that's the one layover from a very strict Catholic childhood. Lol.

Is there a better word for it?

Re: An Interview with Bill Watterson (1987)

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I have immense respect for Watterson. He's the only artist I can think of to achieve that level of fame and success and not sell out. Selling out is barely even a concept any more because it's simply assumed, and Watterson is still out there in a cabin in the woods, communicating only by mail and refusing every corporate offer that comes his way.

Thomas Pynchon has as well but I guess he’s not as famous. But certainly extremely successful. I respect him because a theme of Gravity’s Rainbow is the observation that capitalism will absorb anything that is useful and you can’t fight it as the fight against it will be commodified and sold. That you can only fly under the radar and avoid it - to just not create a market potential. He’s certainly lived by that.

Pynchon is great, but avoiding the creation of commercializable art is a different tactic that never has an inflection point-there's no moment of "If I sign this paper and give my creations to vultures, I will become rich on the spot."

Re: An Interview with Bill Watterson (1987)

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> Blocked because of application > Your computer has been blocked because of an application detected in your system. For more information, contact the system administrator. No Tor browsers.

> detected in your system How?

People get the Tor exit node list and block their IPs, I think.
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