Bill Watterson
Bill Watterson
William Boyd "Bill" Watterson IIis an American cartoonist and the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, which was syndicated from 1985 to 1995. Watterson stopped drawing Calvin and Hobbes at the end of 1995 with a short statement to newspaper editors and his readers that he felt he had achieved all he could in the medium. Watterson is known for his negative views on licensing and comic syndication and his move back into private life after he stopped...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth5 July 1958
CountryUnited States of America
Bill Watterson quotes about
I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
Hobbes: Do you think there's a God? Calvin: Well, somebody's out to get me!
HOBBES: If you don't get a goodnight kiss you get Kafka dreams.
I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family.
I'd hate to have a kid like me.
Mom and dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in. But every time I do, they tell me to stop it.
Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.
I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock.
Calvin: Life's a lot more fun when you aren't responsible for your actions.
There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them. And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It's hard to charge admission without a gate.
For no reason I can think of, I've wandered far astray. And that is how I got to where I find myself today.
Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.
I think the experience forced me to consider how interested I was in political cartooning. After I was fired, I applied to other papers but political cartooning, like all cartooning, is a very tough field to break into. Newspapers are very reluctant to hire their own cartoonists when they can get Oliphant or MacNelly through syndication for a twentieth of the price.
But for my own example, I'd never believe one little kid could have so much brains!