Originally posted by LePaul
I have all the cartoon books, he's a very gifted artist.
If you read up on the cartoonist, he quite primarily because he felt "boxed in" at the size he was limited to in his comic strips. Good read about him on Wiki and elsewhere.
Having drawn (very poorly) a comic strip for my college newspaper for awhile, I am completely amazed at how he managed to pull off everything that he did. Especially with the tools he used (finer technical pens are hard enough to get the hang of, I can't imagine getting that sort of detail on such a small scale with a sable brush).
The thing I really admire about Watterson is that he looked at his work as "art" rather than "product." There are not an awful lot of people who are willing to do more work for less money the way he did.
(And for those of you who don't think it's "work," try it for awhile. Putting out just one a week can be tedious... I can't imagine drawing 3-4 a day).
