Interviewer: What you're doing is the best stuff in the papers.
Bill Watterson: Thank you very much; it's gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, "Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy." Ugh.
Interviewer: That's Andy Warhol's favorite strip.
Bill Watterson: Oh, well, that would figure. Maybe he's the nut writing me.
Bill Watterson: Thank you very much; it's gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, "Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy." Ugh.
Interviewer: That's Andy Warhol's favorite strip.
Bill Watterson: Oh, well, that would figure. Maybe he's the nut writing me.
1987 interview with Honk magazine