Even as a child, Bill Watterson knew he wanted to be a cartoonist.

Eugene R.Bill Watterson is a well-known cartoonist best known for his work on ‘Calvin and Hobbes.’ He began drawing as a child and continued to contribute his artwork to high school and college magazines and newspapers.

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HOME Search Search for: Search Mad Shadows Darker than Weird Hither Came Conan Get Back Issues of Black Gate Recent Comments You can see the entire sequence drawn by Watterson here, and this morning’s article by Michael Cavna’s at The Washington Post that broke the story here.

But it’s another thing to propose an idea to Bill Watterson. I was frightened. Frightened because it’s one thing to write a strip read by millions of people. What followed was a series of back-and-forth emails where we discussed what the strips would be about, and how we would do them. And he had a great sense of humor about the strip I had done, and was very funny, and oh yeah… He had a comic strip idea he wanted to run by me… Bill Watterson really exists? And he sends email? And he’s communicating with me?īut he was. Just getting an email from Bill Watterson is one of the most mind-blowing, surreal experiences I have ever had. And never expected to get a reply. And what do you know, he wrote back. Let me tell you. I emailed him the strip and thanked him for all his great work and the influence he’d had on me. Stephan Pastis, creator of the bestselling Pearls Before Swine comic, revealed on his blog this morning that Watterson has been co-writing and co-drawing the strip with him for much of the past week:

It turns out that it’s already been published - and, typical for Watterson, in a surprisingly understated fashion. He made Time Magazine‘s list of Top 10 Most Reclusive Celebrities (at #7) a few years ago (and Time accompanied the piece with one of the only known photographs of him.) For years, fans have been wondering what his next project would be.

After he retired from comics in 1995, he vanished from public life. Bill Watterson, the legendary creator of Calvin and Hobbes, is one of the most famous cartoonists in the world. He’s also one of the most private.

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