Bill Watterson

William B. "Bill" Watterson II (born July 5, 1958) is an American cartoonist, and the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes and select Target: The Political Cartoon Quarterly Magazine drawings. Watterson was born in Washington, D.C., where his father, James G. Watterson, worked as a patent examiner while going to George Washington University Law School, before becoming a patent attorney in 1960. The family moved to Chagrin Falls, Ohio, where his mother Kathryn became a city council member when Bill was six years old. He has a younger brother, Thomas, who is currently an English teacher at Austin High School in Austin, Texas. In 1980, Watterson graduated from Kenyon College, with a BA in political science. Immediately the Cincinnati Post offered him a job drawing political cartoons for a six-month trial period: Bill Watterson designed grocery advertisements for four years prior to working on Calvin and Hobbes. Calvin and Hobbes was first published on November 18, 1985. Bill... full article at wikipedia