old, it still means a lot to me. and the reason it means a lot to me and some ways is because it does have that dual sort of thing going love it. but it s got so much depth to it, so much meaning. there s things that i get now, and that i appreciate now, even more. that i just didn t catch when i was a kid. so true. it s one of those rare things. this comic means so much to so many people worldwide. and waterson actually had a number of opportunities to license the characters, to license the story. even turn into a movie, buyers like disney, steven spielberg or george lucas that would have made him millions of dollars. and he always refused and it seems to me that the reason is because this story was so personal to him that it took place in his hometown. this was really this is really his. and he didn t want to lose that. do you think that s why he was always so private and so secretive? well, i think in terms of the licensing, he really respected
what are the most important strips of the last, say, 20 years? there are three strips that came up in the 1980s. it was calvin and hobbes by bill waterson, which in my mind is probably one of the b strips ever. there s another panel called the far side which some of you might remember by gary larson. just consistently hilarious on a daily basis. the third cartoon is bloom county. which started as a doonesbury imitation. it took off in its own direction. is there an up and comer we should keep an eye out for? the cartoonist that all the other cartoonists are talking about is richard thompson who does a wonderful strip called cul-de-sac c bout a little girl who goes to a preschool. i read somewhere that people under age 40 no longer read a newspaper regularly. what happens to comic strips? well, i think there s no question that newspapers are in a very challenging period right now financially.