Bill Watterson's approach to deadlines

I noted down a discipline practice that one of my favorite creators used. I had also seen this practice with a successful student, Yesh Dattareya, at the OMSCS. His (Bill Watterson's) approach to deadlines was to stay well ahead of them. When you’re faced with a due date (as he told Lee Nordling in Your Career in Comics ) “there’s no quality control. It’s just garbage in, garbage out.” This was…