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“Nothing is permanent. Everything changes. That’s the one thing we know for sure in this world,” Calvin says to Hobbes in the first panel of a two-panel strip that ran in more than two thousand newspapers on Monday, July 17, 1995. The two friends are in a wagon, plummeting perilously forward into the unseen—a common pastime for them. Outside the world of the cartoon, it’s less than half a year before Bill Watterson, thirty-seven at the time, will retire from producing his wildly beloved work. “Calvin and Hobbes,” which débuted in 1985, centered on six-year-old Calvin and his best friend, Hobbes, a tiger who to everyone other than Calvin appears to be a stuffed animal. Six days a week, the strip appeared in short form, in black-and-white, and each Sunday it was longer and in color. The second panel of the July 17th strip is wide, with detailed trees in the foreground, the wagon airborne, and Calvin concluding his thought: “But I’m still going to gripe about it.”
After retiring, Watterson assiduously avoided becoming a public figure. He turned his attention to painting, music, and family life. He kept the work he made to himself; he gave few, but not zero, interviews. (When asked in an e-mail interview that ran in 2013 in Mental Floss why he didn’t share his paintings, he rep
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Bill Watterson
1958-present
Latest News: Bill Watterson Releases First Book in Years
Bill Watterson, 65, has a new book out. The Mysteries, released on October 10, is his first major book since Calvin and Hobbes. Written in partnership with caricaturist John Kascht, Watterson’s new work is described as a “fable for grown-ups” about “what lies beyond human understanding.” It tells the story of a long-ago kingdom afflicted with “unexplainable calamities,” prompting the king to dispatch his knights to investigate, only one of whom returns.
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Who Is Bill Watterson?
Cartoonist Bill Watterson is best known as the creator of Calvin and Hobbes. While attending Kenyon College, Watterson drew political cartoons for the college paper, leading to a short-lived position at the Cincinnati Post. He worked odd jobs while developing Calvin and Hobbes, a cartoon about a rambunctious boy and his imaginary toy tiger friend, which was syndicated in 1985. The beloved comic strip ended a decade later. A famous recluse, Watterson has mostly stayed out of the spotlight since then. He released a new book, The Mysteries, in October 2023.
Quick Facts
FULL NAME: William Boyd Watterson II
BORN: July 5, 1958
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Bill Watterson
American cartoonist (born 1958)
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Early life
[edit]Bill Watterson was born use up July 5, 1958, connect Washington, D.C., to Kathryn Watterson (1933–2022) and Crook Godfrey Watterson (1932–2016).[2] His father worked as a patent professional. In 1965, six-year-old Watterson and his family watchful to Humiliation Falls, River, a hamlet of Cleveland.[3][4] Watterson has a junior brother, Poet Watterson.[2&#