[ SECRET POST #5867 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5867 ⌋

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Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

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See, I don't think he's an example of Virtue Ethics - at least as you're defining them. I think he lampoons Do It The Hard Way So Other People Will Be Impressed With You in a lot of the comics between Calvin and his father.

IMO, Watterson did an eloquent job explaining why he didn't let Calvin and Hobbes be slapped on every consumer product from here to the moon. It was not because he thought other people would think less of him for it - at the end of the '80's and beginning of the '90's, when he was fighting his syndicate for the right to say no to that stuff, there was no particular social downside to cashing in on intellectual property and letting some company get rich off of it. On the contrary: people who knew how much money he was turning down were more likely disparage him for having no business sense and a lot of useless stubbornness. But there are many cartoons that have been passed from hand to hand by contract (from a famous, creator to subsequent ghostwriters) and the people keeping them going afterwards have to limit themselves to what "the property" is supposed to do. That's what Watterson fought to keep Calvin and Hobbes from becoming - a cheap coat of paint over a meaningless consumer product, spit out at regular intervals as long as people were willing to keep paying for it.

I don't doubt that people told him all sorts of things along the lines of "get over yourself and live with how the world works." But the thing is, I think we're better off because he held his ground and fought for his art.