Bill Watterson’s refusal to license Calvin and Hobbes (2016)
Two observations:<p>Bill Watterson did return to public cartooning, if briefly, in 2014.  There&#x27;s a reference here:[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mentalfloss.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;55321&#x2F;first-new-bill-watterson-cartoon-almost-20-years" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mentalfloss.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;55321&#x2F;first-new-bill-wat...</a><p>Berkeley Breathed&#x27;s &quot;Bloom County&quot; shares a similar cultural and temporal space (1980--1989 initial run) with &quot;Calvin and Hobbes&quot;, and I was going to comment that <i>for the most part</i> Breathed&#x27;s also avoided commercialisation.  Only to learn that there&#x27;s an animated series planned to appear on Fox:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;collider.com&#x2F;bloom-county-animated-series-berkeley-breathed-fox&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;collider.com&#x2F;bloom-county-animated-series-berkeley-b...</a><p>In the current world of Web2.0 &#x2F; Web3 hype and catastrophe, much of the Waterson ethic resonates fairly strongly with me.  The 1980s and early 1990s were something of a spiritual child &#x2F; echo of the 1960s, within the digital realm, and there was a promise of possibilities which ... have to a large extent failed to materialise.<p>The cesspits of Facebook and Twitter are the Altemont to Usenet and the WELL&#x27;s Woodstock.  Reality, bad trips, and Hells Angels have intruded.<p>________________________________<p>Notes:<p>1. Stealth footnote edit:  thaumaturgy&#x27;s commented with the strip in question, Pearls Before Swine, see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32116647" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32116647</a>