Part One: The Dennis the Menace Creator was a Shockingly Bad Man | BEHIND THE BASTARDS 

Did Calvin and Hobbes’ creator do anything bad, or is he also in the clear?

@@glarnboudin4462 As far as we know, Bill Watterson is just an extreme recluse, a la J.D. Salinger. He might be in exile for doing something shady, but it's probably because he's scared of his stalker. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UTaszc1Q6eY.html

@@glarnboudin4462 Bill Watterson is pretty awesome. He resisted efforts to commercialize C&H, ultimately failing (all those truck stickers of Calvin pissing on stuff are completely unofficial and he gets no royalties from them), and eventually pulled a JD Salinger and just... stopped. And went into hermit-mode. He came out with some sort of children's book (completely unrelated to C&H) like six months or so ago and otherwise has basically been in hiding since he stopped doing C&H in 1995. (edit for grammar)

You'll be singing a different tune when his hummingbird fetish goes public

@@TheDarthbinkyyeah, how the hell do those Calvin pissing stickers get out there? It is a pretty awful distortion of a rad character.

What makes his autobiography worse is, "I am Dennis the Menace from Venice" was a said by the UK Dennis, with reference to the British Song.

@@McBlazingtonIf his book was just called “The Merchant of Dennis” it would be hilarious. The fact that he called it “The Merchant of Dennis the Menace” makes it tedious and terrible.

@@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick m Merchant of Dennis is so much better! Did this man not have an editor?

I was going to ask about that.

American, so I'd never heard of this, but it looks 100 times cooler than blonde freckly Dennis. Also, kind of astounding they both started publication at the same time.

I'm shooting to be the subject of one of the non-bastard xmas specials .

I use these podcasts as a guide for how to be ENOUGH of a bastard to get my own episode. Gotta have goals.

He does positive mentions at holidays, or at least at christmas.

I feel like with my luck I’ll end up being an authoritarian strongman but completely on accident. Like, a series of misunderstandings and pratfalls coupled with my inability to tell people ‘no’ would result in a series of political purges and massacres that I was simply to incompetent to prevent. My episode would be called “The Dear Evan Hansen of Authoritarian Regimes.”

@@fredericksmith7942 Your story would make a great episode.

The saddest part is how utterly _NORMAL_ that kind of "fathering" was at the time 😢

a generation that grew up during the great depression and then came of age just in time to get sent into a meat grinder in a different continent was never gonna turn out to be good fathers i guess ​@@suzbone

@@alonedownthere47 100% true. Almost everybody involved was pretty much doomed 😕

@@suzbone he was from Monterey, California, the home of Frank Beardsley, whom Henry Fonda played in the 1968 movie *Yours, Mine, and Ours.* That movie also covered up some very similar treatment of the children of his second wife (played by Lucille Ball). There is even a book called *True North* about how the second wife’s children tried to restore their birth father’s name years later.

I didn't know that; pretty cool!

This may be the case, but Disney has infinite money for lawsuits so it may not be a fight you want to pick

The canonical-outfit-Mickey is a few months older than Willie and is it's own thing, a derived work. By the time anyone reads this comment it will be public domain too.

Best comic ever made. I hope Bill Watterson never shows up on this show. Except as a guest. Assuming he isn't dead.

​@@justinwatson1510 He's not dead, but he's also very much not the 'guest appearance' type.

If they did an episode on a former publisher he might.

There's a wonderful documentary about him on here if it's still up.

@@Desmaad yes, as mentioned in the episode lol

The government was right there. Monterey is where they train military intelligence.

You may now rest... in peace.

So in other words, Walt had a logical reason for not trusting the studio jews.

@@Louie_The_DagoYet you defend his worst movie even though Jews wrote those lousy songs in it and saved the actually good songs they wrote for other movies.

@@Attmay You clearly have no taste if you think mary poppins is his worst movie

I love him and his comic, fr

His comic is, in fact, something positive.

Corporate artists in the 1980's were basically Don Draper from MadMen as far as partying and getting laid and being hep

What is x :P But the latform still known as twitter , didnt hitler basically ran germany in the ground too.

Why are you calling it X when that's what the Hitler of Twitter wants?

Twitter, a post is a tweet, forwarding one is a retweet. What are those on "X"? Elon is a branding genius. Has anybody asked him if he named it for Malcolm X?

And that dog looks just cool.

@@Syurtpiutha That thing is supposed to be a dog?

@@Louie_The_DagoI think so, yes.

I always forget that word. Thanks!

not to be confused with the warhammer 40k tyranid unit, the zoanthrope.

They just misspelled googol, they've admitted it

Theres also the 19th century east coast term for exposing yourself to a dock worker, "Gorgle"

Meh, its been done to death literally everywhere else, and now hes a complete loser burn out whose art projects have fallen short in every capacity, causing all his credibility and value to animation to be lost with even his most dedicated fans willing to look past his grooming

Dennis the Menace from the 90s films was just a hyperactive child. It sounds like Dennis from the early cartoons was basically Baby Herman from Who Framed Roger Rabbit

@@sandpiperr The cartoon was shit as well.

@@Louie_The_Dagothis from someone who hates Walt Disney but makes excuses for his worst film?

And the word "groovy" was late 1920's-early 30's jive talk.

He was born in Dundee Scotland. He was okay.

Probably stinky because he was from the United Kingdom.

His daughter has some fun stories about how he based Beryl the Perils wild expressions on her tantrums and a kid called Robert Fair inspired the way Dennis the Menace struts around but by these accounts he found their antics and their energy funny and inspirational and he never brought it up to save embarrassment

I mean its bound to be inspired by a fun guy with humor who comments on the parents bloody watch them more, if its funny too. Or a bad parent :(

The UK version was pretty openly homophobic from what I recall. The US version never even approaches the subject.

I don't remember it being that bad, beyond the weird sacred vow feats like vow of obedience or vow of chastity. Do you have some other examples?

XD and i read the "unfortunately you have to play like mother theresa for it to be useful" that sounds damning in actual usefulness. And kinda fitting to punish?!

@@Tyrentenir the one basic example would be vow of non-violence. While it meant you couldn't do real damage to humanoids or monstrous humanoids, it did let you do non-lethal damage. It also gave you a +4 untyped bonus to save DCs against spells *or special abilities* that don't do damage. So, a caster using Dominate or a monk using stunning fist (and doing non-lethal damage) suddenly have a very strong tool that basically ends fights even easier than normal. And that's just a basic example. I'd have to go back through (read:find) my old notes for more examples

@@marocat4749 nah, it was very shenanigans friendly. It had a lot of abilities that appeared like what your saying at first glance (for example Vow of Non-violence. Why would I ever want to be non-violent in a d&d game?), but once you actually broke down what they did, were absolutely insane.

what do you do? Drink piss?

Dick Tracy is in my opinion the gold standard for American comics. All this marvel and DC bullshit, with ludicrous overcomplicated galaxy and dimension hopping while every character continues talking like sarcastic hipsters... ...And then theres Dick Tracy, with his jewish partner Sam Ketchum and female street smart detective Liz Grove at a time when Marvel had Captain America literally worshipping McCarthyism. Even in the 1930's, Chester Gould had female villains that were outsmarting both criminal underworld figures as well as cops, and even being more cruel and sociopathic than alot of Tracy's other enemies. In like the early 1950's, one Tracy villain was Crewy Lou, who over the course of the story beats other women, nearly fractures Dick Tracys wifes skull, kidnaps his baby, slaps the shit out of his baby, then dumps his baby in the woods, tries to steam a crime boss to death in a hospital sterilizer oven... I mean, no its not a positive depiction...but creating a female character that is that unhinged, dangerous, formidable, and captivating is progressive. And so many of the villains had layers and layers, that would flesh out their motivations and morality, often times making the concept of right and wrong grey areas, or even making the villains sympathetic. And at a time when movies and TV was essentially justifying all police brutality and deadly force, Dick Tracy was using his intelligence and rational thinking, always restrained his emotions and personal feelings, never mistreated a suspect in custody, and would go to great lengths to avoid deadly force so they could stand trial

@@Louie_The_DagoJewish is capitalized. Only bigots do not.

Mary Poppins exonerates all of Walts misdeeds.

@@Louie_The_Dago no, it doesn’t. In fact, it was his single biggest misdeed. The blood of movie musicals is on his hands and Julie Andrews’, and I want reparations.

Do an episode of vilifying him and I will downvote it and flag it for misinformation and encourage everyone else I know to do rhe same.

So whats up with Vaush being caught with loliporn

*All in the Family* never should have premiered. The only reason we tolerated it at all was to get the spin-offs. At this point, I would gladly sacrifice the entire legacy of Norman Lear, just to restore the sexual function of Gay MEN and Lesbian, whose bodies were sacrificed at the altar of the tr-ns cult he enabled with his buckbreaker propaganda.

How many cold-war polacks does it take to...

Boomers were brats when they were children, and they became malignant narcissists as adults. Therefore, it is an accurate representation of a degenerate generation.

Boomers were brats whose parents were right to raise them as they raised them. I say this as a child of boomers. They were disappointment to their parents, and they are a disappointment to their children. They are responsible for the largest act of upward generational wealth hoarding in history. Blaming their parents is victim-blaming when they all ended up in raisin ranches getting degenerative diseases eating nothing but glorified restaurant food. Boomers are to blame for pretty much everything that has gone wrong since the end of WWII, so Dennis Ketcham’s treatment at the hands of his father is nobody’s fault but his own. Boomers really are a menace to society.

Good. Walt Disney was right about them then and now. Police, entertainment, and education unions have been holding this country over a barrel. They only care about their own self aggrandizement.

Confession through projection. The most racist member of the Disney family is Abigail Disney. Yes, Israel hate is racism and saying otherwise doubles the racism. And Israel hate is not just racist, but homophobic as well because Israel protects Gay rights and Israel let Gay in the military before the US.

I look at it as we don't know what we would have done

Ward Kimball’s participation in the greatest movie ever, *Bedknobs and Broomsticks* does not let him off the hook for using a homophobic slur in a letter to Lorenzo Music in 1978 when he wrote to him about whether a snail would make a good cartoon character.

Can we talk about how Sparky outed a family member without her permission?

you mean the Tim Burton travesty of that classic Walt Disney movie?

@@Attmay Live Action one

Yea, but the difference is back then Disney made good stuff.

@@Louie_The_DagoNone of it had that common guttersnipe Julie Andrews in it.

False dichotomy is false. At what time do boomers get the blame for being spoiled brats and actually justifying the way their parents treated them because they went on to 😊treat their children even worse?

Man who created Bart Simpson: flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane