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** Watterson made several strips with subtle jabs at his editors and the syndication people.
** There is a Take That related to Calvin and Hobbes, although not in the strip itself. For strips in [[Bloom County]] that parodied cartoon cats that featured characters such as [[Garfield]] and Hobbes, Bill Watterson retaliated hilariously with [http://ignatz.brinkster.net/cimages/cbreathedsketch.jpg this comic]. In response Berke Breathed said this:
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** In one comic Calvin talks about wanting to be a talk radio host. It ends with him saying "Imagine getting to act like a six-year-old and getting paid for it!"
* A mutual [[Take That]] between ''[[Dilbert]]'' and ''[[Zippy the Pinhead]]:'' Bill Griffith used his daily strip ''Zippy the Pinhead'' as a forum to criticize Adams' artwork as simplistic. Adams responded on 5/18/1998, by having Dogbert create a comic strip called "Pippy the Ziphead," "cramming as much artwork in as possible so no one will notice there's only one joke [and] it's on the reader." Dilbert notes that the strip is "nothing but a clown with a small head who says random things" and Dogbert responds that he is "maintaining his artistic integrity by creating a comic that no one will enjoy."
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