• Instigate@aussie.zone
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            7 months ago

            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?

            • can@sh.itjust.works
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              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.

    • Numberone@startrek.website
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      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.