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
I still read newspaper comics, but without much hope for their future.
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Boy, there's nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.
But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
But for my own example, I'd never believe one little kid could have so much brains!
I always think of "Popeye" and "Barney Google" as quintessential comic strips in that old rollicky, slapstick way we've sort of lost.
Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
I chose to tell the story visually, so that anyone of any age, from any country, could understand it.
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.
Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.
I've been interested in cartooning all my life. I read the comics as a kid, and I did cartoons for high school publications - the newspaper and yearbook and soon. In college, I got interested in political cartooning and did political cartoons.