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[–] jwigum 17 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Shouldn’t use Watterson’s work. He fought long and hard against stuff like this…

[–] paddirn 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Could you link to more information about this?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

He's famously against all commercialization of the strip and I think he'd feel this similarly devalues it.

One source.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That seems to be mostly about monetization and commodification, which should already be absent from shitposting.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I get that but I respect Watterson too much to assume his stance.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think he’d feel this similarly devalues it.

I respect Watterson too much to assume his stance.

Well… which is it? Do you respect him too much to assume his stance or are you assuming he’d feel this similarly devalues it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I mean I don't want to assume he'd be alright with it therefore I won't use it. Nothing I said was definitive, just what I think.

[–] SpaceNoodle 3 points 7 months ago

Well somebody should pop over to Chagrin Falls and ask him

[–] samus12345 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Did you mean "this" stance, maybe?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I suppose that would also have worked, but no.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Here is a wiki source (insert error bars here) discussion of his stance on his work being officially licensed. He thought that use of his work outside of a comic strip would cheapen the value of the strip itself. This was frusterating as a child (who wouldn't want a fucking Hobbes plushy) but now later I can see that it was at the very least a very defensible choice. Compare how people feel about C&H vs something that was commercialized to death like Garfield. Anyway, hope it's useful.

[–] SpaceNoodle 5 points 7 months ago

Like this specifically?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I mean, not really though. He fought to keep companies from merchandizing C&H, mainly because he “wanted to keep the characters pure to every reader’s internal voice.” Basically to keep companies from turning it into a shitty profit center or bastardizing it with a cartoon, etc. I don’t think he really said anything or would have a problem with fans using the images to share stuff, y’know?

[–] SpruceBringsteen 3 points 7 months ago

Becoming a meme format is a great way to strip all of the original context for most, just look at the point of this thread. Just because it's C+H isn't going to stop that.

Like we saw with the bumper stickers, it wasn't just the stupid Ford v Chevy thing, it was that anyone wanting to make a stupid point on their bumper sticker was lending Calvin's voice to their own stupid crusade.