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
Mothers are the necessity of invention.
Reality continues to ruin my life.
Garry Trudeau is the only cartoonist with the clout to get his strip published large enough to accomodate extended dialogue. It's ashame.
I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live up to his expectations. My Cincinnati days were pretty Kafkaesque.
Hold it. You know what I'd like to see? I'd like to see the three bears eat the three little pigs, and then the bears join up with the big bad wolf and eat Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood! Tell me a story like that, OK?
We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.
People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
I guess I have a gift for expressing pedestrian tastes. In a way, it's kind of depressing.
You can present the material, but you can't make me care.
I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework...procrastinating and negotiation.
Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.