{"id":15175,"date":"2014-02-26T14:40:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T20:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailycartoonist.com\/?p=15175"},"modified":"2014-02-26T17:08:15","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T23:08:15","slug":"bill-watterson-provides-poster-art-for-stripped-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailycartoonist.com\/index.php\/2014\/02\/26\/bill-watterson-provides-poster-art-for-stripped-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Watterson provides poster art for Stripped documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><p>The upcoming release of <strong>Dave Kellett<\/strong> and <strong>Fred Schroeder&rsquo;s<\/strong> documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strippedfilm.com\"><em>Stripped<\/em><\/a> got a big win when <strong>Bill Watterson<\/strong> provided artwork for the poster.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/02\/26\/some-new-art-from-calvin-hobbes-creator\/?_php=true&amp;_type=blogs&amp;_r=0\">From The New York Times Arts Beat<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and an elegance that really I would put against any other art,&rdquo; Mr. Watterson says in his interview. Mr. Schroeder said, &ldquo;It seemed like he really wanted to express some thoughts about comics and cartooning, where they had been and where they are going.&rdquo; The retired cartoonist was so pleased with the documentary that he also supplied the artwork for the poster of the film.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><p>What a coup for Dave and Fred and what a generous contribution from one of the great masters of the art. Documentary is released on April 2.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/02\/26\/some-new-art-from-calvin-hobbes-creator\/?_php=true&amp;_type=blogs&amp;_r=0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/tdc-images\/stripped-poster-watterson.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The upcoming release of Dave Kellett and Fred Schroeder&rsquo;s documentary Stripped got a big win when Bill Watterson provided artwork for the poster.From The New York Times Arts Beat: &ldquo;In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and an elegance that really I would put against any other art,&rdquo; Mr. Watterson says in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[502,127],"class_list":["post-15175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic-strips","tag-billwatterson","tag-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailycartoonist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailycartoonist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailycartoonist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailycartoonist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailycartoonist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailycartoonist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailycartoonist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailycartoonist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailycartoonist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}