Hi Alexandra:! Just noticed your comment and link to Nicky510. I'm glad to hear that you find "stuff to enjoy" in Nicky510 and am sad that you don't think it'll be one of your favorites. But I'll hold out hope that, as you read further, it'll rise to that level for you.
There's no overt "please compare this to Watterson" dynamic going on (in my head at least). There's a ton of similarity between his childhood and mine (apparently) so it's not surprising that there's going to be some similarity in the base material. And there may well be some unconscious channeling. I read a LOT of comic growing up (and after grown), and C&H was one of them. But so was Peanuts, Bloom County, Far Side, L'il Abner, Pogo, Buck Rogers, and so on and on. They're all probably influencing me to some degree. But when I come up with an idea it really does simply start as a proto-idea that grows as I chew on it. The toon you linked to (the chalk one) sprang from a discussion I had with one of my children years ago and it evolved from there.
Anyway, a little feedback from the cartoonist, for what it's worth.
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on 2011-01-09 03:42 pm (UTC)There's no overt "please compare this to Watterson" dynamic going on (in my head at least). There's a ton of similarity between his childhood and mine (apparently) so it's not surprising that there's going to be some similarity in the base material. And there may well be some unconscious channeling. I read a LOT of comic growing up (and after grown), and C&H was one of them. But so was Peanuts, Bloom County, Far Side, L'il Abner, Pogo, Buck Rogers, and so on and on. They're all probably influencing me to some degree. But when I come up with an idea it really does simply start as a proto-idea that grows as I chew on it. The toon you linked to (the chalk one) sprang from a discussion I had with one of my children years ago and it evolved from there.
Anyway, a little feedback from the cartoonist, for what it's worth.
Toonfully yours,
Crow