Talk:Epic Rap Battles of History 52/@comment-27908015-20150114231426/@comment-25598352-20150115040014

I have thought about Davis and Schulz and ultimately decided Waterson was a better representative as I literally know nothing about them as people, which I suspect is true for the vast majority of the population. Waterson had a documentary on his life come out recently, although it didn't do terribly well at all at the box office. He's also somewhat more famous due to his almost complete refusal to draw anything after his strip's run ended and Salinger-like rejection of the cult of personality to the point where it has become a sort of cult of personality that bizarrely makes him a more interesting person than Schulz or Davis, even though the former does have better name recognition.

And, ultimately, Lee and every other cartoonist (and most writers, for that matter) suffer from the trap of having characters more ERB-worthy than they are. Hussie is the rare exception as a cartoonist, partially because Homestuck is arguably as much a dialogue between Hussie and the community as it is an actual story these days and the man goes to great lengths to make himself a character (literally).