The Creator
Bill Watterson
Bill Watterson published his first Calvin & Hobbes strip on 18 November 1985 and ended it with his last strip on 31 December 1995.
The man who created Calvin & Hobbes is Bill Watterson. Watterson was born in Washington DC in 1958. His last known home was in Hudson, Ohio. Here he lived a quiet life together with his wife Melissa, and their three cats. (Juniper Boots, Sprite and Pumpernickel) Watterson has now moved, and the public does not know where he lives at present
"Long ago the sunday comics were printed the size of an entire newapaper page.Each comic was like a color
poster.Not surprisingly, with all that space to fill, cartoonists poduced works of incredible beauty and the
power that we just on't see anymore, now that strips are a third of quarter of the former size.Whereas little nemo
could dream through 15 surreal panels - especially if the characterd move.All the things hat make comics fun to
read - the stories, the dialogu,the pictures - have gotten simpler in order to keep the work legible at smaller and
smaller sizes.The art has been in a process of retrograde evolution for decades.For those of us trying to return
some of the childhood fun we had marveling at comic drawings,the opportunities today are discouraging.
Cartoons can be much more than we've been seeing lately.How much more will dependon what newspaper
readers will demand.One thing, though, is certain : Little boys, lik tigers,will roam all the teritory they can get."
- Bill Watterson.
