Calvin and Hobbes

Bill Watterson’s comic strip, cited by Naval Ravikant in The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (“Escape competition through authenticity”) as the go-to example of a creative work so bound up with its creator’s identity that no one could out-compete it: “Is someone going to compete with Bill Watterson and create a better Calvin and Hobbes? No. They’re being authentic.” It’s paired with Dilbert (Scott Adams) in the same passage — a one-line illustration of authenticity as an unassailable moat, not further discussed.

Where this appears

• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant — Naval’s authenticity-as-moat argument.