Bill Watterson is one of the most elusive characters in modern American letters. His Calvin &#; Hobbes strip is an embarrassment of riches, but the man himself has valued privacy above all, largely fading to a quiet existence following his strip&#;s much mourned retirement. However, Mental Floss scored a very rare interview (all done via email) with him, and it reveals Watterson to be every bit the kind, intelligent, articulate soul his fans always suspected he would be. Here&#;s a few excellent quotes.
On why he won&#;t allow anyone, even Pixar (who has begged him for the rights), to adapt his characters.
The visual sophistication of Pixar blows me away, but I have zero interest in animating Calvin and Hobbes &#;As a comic strip, Calvin and Hobbes works exactly the way I intended it to. There’s no upside for me in adapting it.
Why he won&#;t honor his fans&#; requests to write more Calvin and Hobbes:
Well, coming at a new work requires a certain amount of patience and energy &#;You can’t really blame people for preferring more of what they already know and like. The trade-off, of course, is that predictability is boring. Repetition is the death of magic.
On rumors
An Interview With Bill Watterson
The creator of Calvin and Hobbes
on cartooning, syndicates, Garfield,
Charles Schulz, and editors.
But its true. Against heavy odds, one man with a lot of determination and a fierce sense of his craft may have single-handedly given the strips a new lease on their artistic life. It's been a struggle, but Bill Watterson, like his creation, is the real thing at last.
Andrew Christie: Let's start with the basics: when, where, why, and how?
Bill Watterson: Well, I don't know how far back you want to go; 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 politica lcartoons every week for four years at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, and majore
Hours passing without number,
My eye trace 'round the room. I lay
Dripping sweat and now quite certain
That tonight the final curtain
Drops upon my life's short precious play.
From the darkness, by the closet
Comes a noise, much like a faucet
Makes: a madd'ning drip-drip-dripping sound.
It seems some ill-proportioned beast,
Anticipating me deceased,
Is drooling poison puddles on the ground..
A can of mace, a forty-five,
Is all I'd need to stay alive,
But no weapon lies within my sight.
Oh my gosh! A shadow's creeping,
Ominous ans black, it's seeping
Slowly 'cross a moonlit square of light!
Suddenly a floorboard creak
Anounces the bloodsucking freak
Is here to steal my future years away!
A sulf'rous smell now fills the room
Heralding my imm'nent doom!
A fang gleams in the dark and murky gray!
Oh, blood-red eyes a tentacles!
Throbbing, pulsing ventricles!
Mucus-oozing porses and frightful claws!
Worse, in terms of outright scariness,
Are the suckers multifarious
That grab and force you in its mighty jaws!
This disgusting aberration
Of nature needs no motivation
To devour helpless children in their beds.
Relis
Bill Watterson
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 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 Oct
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