Got to respect Mr Watterson's stance, but I was a little bit gutted to learn he had turned down Pixar - surely a safe set of hands that could produce something incredible from his creation. Would he turn down Hayao Miyazaki as well?
Watterson seems close to enlightened in the Buddhistic or Daoistic traditions.
"Therefore he who knows that enough is enough will always have enough." Dao De Jing - Chapter 46