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    18 days ago

    It used to really annoy Bill Watterson that he’d have to draw his Sunday Calvin & Hobbes strips so that they could be ‘rearranged’ for newspapers that didn’t want to give it as much space; the top third might be removed entirely, and then the remaining two rows of three might be cut-and-paste into three rows of two. He hated taking to waste the top line on a throw-away gag, and couldn’t lay out the whole thing as he’d like. His post-sabbatical strips where he’d arranged a different deal were so much more interesting.

    Jim Davis, on the other hand? Garfield comics are made for this.