Coming out of a 28-year retirement.
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Came out 5 days ago.
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@Mik said in Coming out of a 28-year retirement.:
Wow.
Ohio's own!
Initial review:
If he never publishes anything else it'll serve as an ideal bookend to his incredible career. -
More in-depth review:
This is an old person's book. Not something anyone young would be able to write or even hold an interest in. This is the kind of thing you make after you have many decades under your belt.
So, it's challenging. It's full of suggestion but explains very little. It evokes a lot but there's no real, concrete protagonist or plot. But it's also not wooey or pretentious, I think it's Bill just riffing on where we're at, what kind of mistakes we make and how we should properly frame them.
And the illustrations are just delightfully weird. There's a great process video on YouTube about it. It's no kind of collaboration I've ever heard of.
This is a real "love it or hate it" kinda project. And people looking for another C&H are going to be terribly disappointed.
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Wonder about the rights to C&H after his death. Even though it will be many years since the last one, I suspect the rights will avidly sought by several companies.
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Wonder about the rights to C&H after his death. Even though it will be many years since the last one, I suspect the rights will avidly sought by several companies.
@Jolly said in Coming out of a 28-year retirement.:
Wonder about the rights to C&H after his death. Even though it will be many years since the last one, I suspect the rights will avidly sought by several companies.
Probably it'll go to a trust or something and be legally locked up. Ain't no way he or his family would let it go to pot. He's said no to basically everything always, with the exception of one-offs for charities.
I wish people would stop asking for more C&H. His ending it when he did is precisely why people want to see more of it. Let things resolve for fuck's sake. Not everything has to be Star Wars.
Please love yourself.
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C&H is arguably more like Frasier than Star Wars. And I feel like they shouldn't have brought that back.
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C&H is arguably more like Frasier than Star Wars. And I feel like they shouldn't have brought that back.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Coming out of a 28-year retirement.:
C&H is arguably more like Frasier than Star Wars. And I feel like they shouldn't have brought that back.
I was really interested in the Frasier return.
But the conceit is an older father not only noticing that he's distanced from his son but wants to do something about it. Which completely destroyed all suspension of disbelief. Lightsabers and Wookies are more believable.
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@Jolly said in Coming out of a 28-year retirement.:
Wonder about the rights to C&H after his death. Even though it will be many years since the last one, I suspect the rights will avidly sought by several companies.
Probably it'll go to a trust or something and be legally locked up. Ain't no way he or his family would let it go to pot. He's said no to basically everything always, with the exception of one-offs for charities.
I wish people would stop asking for more C&H. His ending it when he did is precisely why people want to see more of it. Let things resolve for fuck's sake. Not everything has to be Star Wars.
@Aqua-Letifer said in Coming out of a 28-year retirement.:
I wish people would stop asking for more C&H. His ending it when he did is precisely why people want to see more of it. Let things resolve for fuck's sake. Not everything has to be Star Wars.
Nothing should be Star Wars. Not even Star Wars. C&H ran its course and it is done. Let it be done. There's a FB group that regularly rehashes the strips and that's fine.
We haven't watched the new Frasier yet. I am not expecting much.
