If you can sum up who your characters are in a sentence or two, you’re in trouble. People are complicated, and cartoon characters need to reflect that complexity to be intriguing to the reader. One reason Pogo is fun to read and reread is that the core characters are many-sided. They all have good sides and bad that reveal themselves gradually. The characters are full of life and unpredictability.
Bill Watterson, as quoted in Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip by Nevin Martell. Continuum Intl Pub Group, 2010 p.73, 74
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