Um so we are sure he's not using AI for his new project right
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Um so we are sure he's not using AI for his new project right
Um so we are sure he's not using AI for his new project right
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He's been painting/illustrating for 30 years since the strip ended, so I'm pretty confident that his style has changed since the days of daily strips.
I doubt it. He seems like the kind of guy who barely knows how to check his e-mail.
Robert crumb better!
Wait he's still alive?
Yes, he chose to retire years ago at the top of his game with his integrity intact and not spend every waking moment screeching on social media. Shockingly rare today, I know.
When he quit C&H he was only like 40.
He has the perfect life:
>create one of the most beloved and respected comic strips of all time
>develop sterling reputation for unshakable integrity
>retire relatively young from massive success
>spend rest of life living quietly with his family doing the occasional art project when he feels like it
Nah
>won't grant any interviews or appear in any dopey documentaries for 30 years
>emerges from a cave with a very '90s book no one asked for
>looks nothing like any of his other work
>not even the primary artist
Absolute king shit.
There's not going to be a discernable difference in a few years and people who try to duscern between the two on their own are going to be seen as nuts with too much time in their hands.
It's going to be like the rise of digital image software in the 90s/2000s. AI tools will just be integrated into the way artists work. Boring, uncreative people will continue to be boring and uncreative even with these tools, others with talent will use them to create new and interesting art.
he looks just like my dad and it's pretty uncanny, Cinemaphile
Also Watterson is one of the few cartoonists I really respect
>no drama
>no woke Netflix adaptations
>no sequels 100 years in making to make a quick buck
What a chad
Does Bill Watterson seem like the kind of person who'd use AI to you?
What does this guy does for a living? My dream is to create something one day and not to have to sell me out if I ever face a financial crisis.
>What does this guy does for a living?
It's called Calvin and Hobbes. I am pretty sure he doesn't need to work a single day in his life ever again.
>My dream is to create something one day
The key is consistency, webtoon/comic artists can't meet deadlines, meanwhile this fricking guy was drawing a comic strip every single day for 10 years.
And somehow the quality was always so fricking high
Because he knew when to stop. He felt he had come to the end of what he wanted to do with the strip, so he stopped doing it.
Yeah
Calvin and Hobbes were colored and published in a local magazine (around 2 pages/8 strips a week), I've bought every single one.
it was my fricking childhood, man.
>webtoon/comic artists can't meet deadlines, meanwhile this fricking guy was drawing a comic strip every single day for 10 years.
Most webcomic guys do it on top of day jobs. Newspapers strips used to pay VERY well, probably still do decently even with the dying Newspaper industry. It's national syndication.
daily comic strips are a sweet gig. People who phone it in are fricking hucksters. Next to getting a scholastic book deal or being a political cartoonist it's the easiest fricking job in comics. If you do comics you need to churn out like 22+ pages a month to break even, with strips you only need to do 3 panels a day and one 9-10 panel sunday strip.
Not that it lessens Watterson's work, he should be commended for putting in 100% when most strip artists effectively draw with templates now, along with the dignity to walk away from what could be easy pay checks.
Can't you just get a second job or esle?