A deep love for the work itself

I’m fiddling with the dials of social networking… uninstalling apps, retiring accounts, setting strict limits — that sorta thing. I’m bumping into glorious walls of opportunity while breaking habits.

One intended upside is to tackle piles of books. Tonight I broke into the chonky first tome of Calvin and Hobbes. I didn’t realize Bill Watterson had a brief failed stint at the Cincinnati Post.

“To persist in the face of continual rejection requires a deep love of the work itself.” he said of the time period.

I very much get that, from many time periods!

Related tangent: I once did a daily comic strip for the student paper at OSU that was 1000% influenced by Watterson and Berkley Breathed’s Bloom County.

My comic featured a dog called Potbelly that didn’t talk but held up signs.

I posted a strip a few years back and intend to scan in more someday, but the reality is they weren’t very good. I still had a deep love for the work, but writing a daily comic strip requires special talent.