Storage area, Old City, Shanghai
Did you see the latest episode of Dollhouse?
Found Xtranormal, a fun make-your-own movie site thanks to Frank J. of IMAO.
Since I woke up at 4:30 AM with jet lag, I had time to put together this one-minute meditation on Joss Whedon’s “Dollhouse” and sci-fi:
Brass urn, Forbidden City
Back in the USA
After reading two articles, “Bill Watterson, creator of beloved ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ comic strip looks back with no regrets” and “Tobogganing” by John Campanelli in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, I have to wonder if the paper was the real-life inspiration for The Onion…
Because your work touched so many people, fans feel a connection to you, like they know you. They want more of your work, more Calvin, another strip, anything. It really is a sort of rock star/fan relationship. Because of your aversion to attention, how do you deal with that even today? And how do you deal with knowing that it’s going to follow you for the rest of your days?
Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist — how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
But since my “rock star” days, the public attention has faded a lot. In Pop Culture Time, the 1990s were eons ago. There are occasional flare-ups of weirdness, but mostly I just go about my quiet life and do my best to ignore the rest. I’m proud of the strip, enormously grateful for its success, and truly flattered that people still read it, but I wrote “Calvin and Hobbes” in my 30s, and I’m many miles from there.
An artwork can stay frozen in time, but I stumble through the years like everyone else. I think the deeper fans understand that, and are willing to give me some room to go on with my life.
..and Tobogganing:
| Tobogganing with John Campanelli |
Shanghai constructs
Shanghai, January 2010
Greetings from Shanghai
Soup in dumpling shop in the Old City