William B. "Bill" Watterson II (born July 5, 1958) is an American cartoonist and the author of the influential and popular comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. Bill is known for his controversial views on licensing and comic syndication, as well as for being reclusive or media shy. His career as a syndicated cartoonist ran from 1985 to 1995, he retired on December the 31st with a short statement to newspaper editors and his fans that he felt he had ach...
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William B. "Bill" Watterson II (born July 5, 1958) is an American cartoonist and the author of the influential and popular comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. Bill is known for his controversial views on licensing and comic syndication, as well as for being reclusive or media shy. His career as a syndicated cartoonist ran from 1985 to 1995, he retired on December the 31st with a short statement to newspaper editors and his fans that he felt he had achieved all he could in the comic strip medium. During the early years of his career he produced several drawings and additional contributions for Target: The Political Cartoon Quarterly.
William B. Watterson was born in Washington, D.C. in 1958, 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.
In 1964, when Bill was 6 years old the family moved to Chagrin Falls, Ohio, where his mother, Kathryn Watterson, became a city council...
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