And I was curious to see what he has been up to since he retired from being the greatest cartoonist ever. I found this article on him. It is weird why they keep gettig his retirement wrong, he left the Far Side in 94, which wold make it 12 years.
He does make reference to cartoonists he mail it in, now I wonder if he is referring to the same person that Berke Breathed is talking about in his Onion interview in 2001, or someone completely different.
Reading Berke Breathed's interview led me of course to the third of the triumvirate of the greatest cartoonists ever, so I checked out Bill Watterson's Wikipedia page and sure enough, he has some strong commentary regarding commercializing his work.
I do find it interesting that two of three cartoonists I mentioned are critical of the same cartoonist and quite possibily Gary Larson is too, but may just be too polite to say his name. I agree with them though, I find that series to be bland and unfunny.
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