2007-06-29 08:15:49 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Comics & Animation
Several reasons:
1. He was sick of doing it. It was getting old.
2. He was sick of all the commercialism.
3. He was annoyed that the comics in newspapers were getting smaller and smaller.
In summary, he was against "the system." That about sums it up.
2007-06-29 08:23:33 · answer #1 · answered by Mr. Taco 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think he did the right thing. Calvin and Hobbs is perhaps the best cartoon series ever, and he didn't want to screw it up by driving it into the ground like Shoultz did with Peanuts. He quit on top while it was still funny. He did have issues with the cartoon layouts of news papers, but I think that he quit because what he started was completed, and he surely made his fortune. So why not?
2007-06-29 15:31:54 · answer #2 · answered by Gary S 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Watterson just felt that he'd gotten to the point where he had done all he could with the strip. He wanted to move on to something where he wasn't always working with the artistic restrictions that a daily comic strip (and deadlines) put on him.
If that seems strange, bear in mind that Watterson is a self-confessed odd duck, even by cartoonist standards.
2007-06-29 15:27:09 · answer #3 · answered by Navigator 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He felt that he had done all that he could do with the characters and wanted to try something new. He was also sick over the commercialism and despised Calvin & Hobbs being used on T-Shirts, etc.
He's a bit...off his rocker. Now he's basically a hermit. He burns paintings and drawings once he completes them so no one can "steal his work."
2007-06-29 16:27:07 · answer #4 · answered by Ari 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
cause Calvin brain washed him.
2007-06-29 16:00:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋