In recent years, comics have been ensconced as high art in the pages of McSweeney's, the New York Times Magazine, and The New Yorker. In the comics issue of McSweeney's last year, Chris Ware—the author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth and of the Times Magazine's serialized strip Building Stories—noted that, "In the past decade or so, comics appear to have gained some greater measure of respect and acceptance than ever before, due in no small part to the number of cartoonists who have begun to take the medium seriously, appearing in magazines as journalism, museums as art, and literary magazines as writing." Magazines, museums, and literary journals may have longer shelf lives than newspapers, but they don't offer cartoonists a daily relationship with millions of readers. Barring the mainstream emergence of Internet comics, only a newspaper strip can accomplish that level of intimacy. With Calvin and Hobbes, Watterson took newsprint as seriously as graphic novelists take magazines and books.