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9/21/05

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A reader recently showed me a quote from the news - I forget which magazine or who'd said it, but it went to the effect of, "There are two kinds of cartoonists today: Those who were influenced by Bill Watterson, and those who don't want to admit they were influenced by Bill Watterson."

Watterson did great work, true. But the only influence on Arthur, King of Time and Space that can be traced to Calvin and Hobbes, with the obvious exception, is the conscious philosophy to attempt to make the most of Sundays as can be (at times when I have a functional scanner at home). As for un- or sub- conscious influence, Calvin and Hobbes came along when I was too old. It was too late for Watterson to get under my skin as Schulz and Hart and Foglio and Trudeau did.

Anyone disagree?

Webcomics I read mornings: The Daily Grind Iron Man Challenge,
Peanuts, General Protection Fault, Todd and Penguin, Achewood, Scary Go Round,
Tux & Bunny, College Roommates from Hell!!!, Kevin & Kell, Real Life
Webcomics I read middays: Calvin & Hobbes, Least I Could Do, User Friendly,
Questionable Content, Starslip Crisis, Dandy and Company, Queen of Wands, Narbonic
Webcomics I read evenings: LuAnn, Pearls Before Swine, Count Your Sheep, Goats,
For Better Or For Worse, Help Desk, Schlock Mercenary, Sinfest, Irregular Comic, Little Dee
Webcomics I read bedtimes: B.C., Something Positive, Bruno,
The Angriest Rice Cooker In The World,
Dinosaur Comics, Wapsi Square, Medium Large, Alice!, Sluggy Freelance, PvP
Webcomics I read M-W-F mornings: El Goonish Shive, Ctrl+Alt+Del, Nukees,
Syntax Errors, Checkerboard Nightmare, Gossamer Commons
Webcomics I read M-W-F evenings: Reasoned Cognition, Two Lumps,
Theater Hopper, Tweep, Shortpacked, Girl Genius, Megatokyo
Webcomics I read Tu-Th-Sa mornings: Digger,
Crap I Drew On My Lunch Break, AppleGeeks, Orneryboy, Striptease, Penny Arcade
Webcomics I read Tu-Th-Sa evenings: Casey & Andy,
Extra Life, The Noob, As If!, Get Out of My Head, Order of the Stick
Webcomics I read Sundays: The Whovian Observer, Nemesis, Loserz, Journey Into History, Butternut Squash,
Dr. Devious vs Lincoln High, Goobs, Ctrl+Alt+Del, Her: Girl Vs Pig, 13 Seconds, Pibgorn, Boxjam's Doodle
See also Talk About Comics, The Belfry Comics Index, The Webcomic List,
Nth Degree, 100% Originality Theatre, Comixpedia, The Living Comic and Websnark.

Arthuriana sources I use or recommend:
Arthurian Legend
Arthuriana - the Journal of Arthurian Studies; the website of the quarterly journal of the North American Branch of the International Arthurian Society.
The Camelot Project at the University of Rochester.
Camelot In Four Colors: A Survey of the Arthurian Legend in Comics
Mystical-WWW - The Arthurian A2Z knowledge Bank which has encyclopedically-arranged entries on the characters of the Arthurian legends.
Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1 and Volume 2.