![]() Unable to fulfill his editor’s fuzzy notion of what an editorial cartoon should be, Watterson was fired before the end of his first year. Upon graduation in 1980, he became the political cartoonist for The Cincinnati Post, an experience he remembers as relentlessly depressing but mercifully short. At Chagrin Falls High School and Kenyon College in Ohio, he drew for the student newspapers and yearbooks. Watterson was born in Washington, D.C., 1958. Frankly, he’s not interested in it, and he tells us why in this interview. In fact, Watterson probably says “No” more than Calvin’s prank-weary parents. ![]() So why haven’t you seen the Calvin and Hobbes characters splattered across the American landscape on burger glasses, greeting cards, and as stuffed toys? Because Watterson says “No” to licensing. And its creator, Bill Watterson, has already won the coveted National Cartoonist Society Cartoonist of the Year award. The three Calvin and Hobbes collections are permanent fixtures on The New York Times best-seller list. After less than three years in syndication, it appears in more than 600 newspapers. ![]() From the TCJ Archives The Bill Watterson Interviewįrom The Comics Journal #127 (March 1989), and conducted by Richard Samuel West.Ĭalvin and Hobbes is America’s hottest comic strip. ![]()
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