"Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good."

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On my coffee table is an anthology of Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes. Much like a Bible, I can flip it open to any page and find something original and worthwhile. The most astonishing thing, however, was that Watterson did this work daily, for years straight. How could Watterson produce such a high-volume of creative work when many of us struggle with doing one memorable thing in a lifetime?

That is the trade of the cartoonist (whether in print or online); do interesting work and lots of it. To accomplish this seemingly impossible task of constant cleverness takes some natural talent, but more than that is craft. Craft is learnable in the same way wisdom is transferable.

On Doing the Work

In Stripped, a documentary about comic strips, Bill Watterson said of his work: