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William Boyd Watterson II is a retired 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; his efforts to expand and elevate the newspaper comic as an art form; and his move back into private life after he stopped drawing Calvin and Hobbes. Watterson was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. The suburban Midwestern United States setting of Ohio was part of the inspiration for Calvin and Hobbes.



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✵ 5. July 1958  •  Other names ビル・ワターソン, 빌 워터슨
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Bill Watterson Quotes

“I'M SIGNIFICANT!!!
…
Say's the dust speck.”

Bill Watterson

Source: The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

“Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'… what do you suppose that means?"
Television: "… it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet”

Bill Watterson

Source: Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue

“You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet could be running loose in your pants.”

Bill Watterson

Source: Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

“I wonder where we go when we die?”
“…Pittsburgh?”
“You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?”

Bill Watterson

“I must follow the inscrutable exhortations of my soul.”

Bill Watterson

“Susie: The way Calvin's brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
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Bill Watterson

23 Apr 92
The Days Are Just Packed
Source: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“From now on I’ll connect the dots my own way.”

Bill Watterson

“Calvin: But for my own example, I'd never believe one little kid could have so much brains!
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Bill Watterson

Source: The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes

“Mothers are the necessity of invention.”

Bill Watterson

“Boy, there's nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.”

Bill Watterson

“Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.”

Bill Watterson

Variant: You know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon... everything's different.

“I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.”

Bill Watterson

Source: The Days Are Just Packed: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

“Calvin's Dad: It's going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn't know anything but what it's seen on TV.
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Bill Watterson

Something Under the Bed Is Drooling
Source: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“Scientific Progress goes boink?”

Bill Watterson

“Good friends are hard to come by.. I need more money.”

Bill Watterson

The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes

“You know what's the rage this year?… Hats.”

Bill Watterson

Source: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines."
"Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce."
"We need more special effects and dance numbers.”

Bill Watterson

There's Treasure Everywhere

“Virtual reality has nothing on Calvin.”

Bill Watterson

Source: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“Paul Gauguin asked, "whence do we come? What are we? Where are we going?" Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I came from my room, I'm a kid with big plans, and I'm going outside! See ya later! Say, who the heck is Paul Gauguin anyway?”

Bill Watterson

“My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin”

Bill Watterson

Source: The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes

“Never argue with a six-year-old who shaves.”

Bill Watterson Calvin and Hobbes

Source: Calvin and Hobbes

“I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip.”

Bill Watterson

Source: The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

“Calvin: I'm a genius. I can't believe how smart I am.
… I've got more brains than I know what to do with.
Hobbes: So I've noticed.”

Bill Watterson

Source: Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons

“Sleepwalking?"
"Nightmare?"
"Homicidal psycho jungle cat!”

Bill Watterson

Source: Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

“So long, Pop! I'm off to check my tiger trap!”

Bill Watterson

“Calvin: Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
p77”

Bill Watterson

The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes

“I'm resolving to just wing it and see what happens.”

Bill Watterson

“Calvin: If you do the job badly enough, sometimes you don't get asked to do it again.
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Bill Watterson

Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat
Source: Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

“Dad: Honey, have you seen my glasses? I can"t find them.
Mom: I haven't seen them.
Calvin: (with glasses, to Dad) Calvin, go do something you hate! Being miserable builds character!”

Bill Watterson

Source: Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons

“The more you think about things, the weirder they seem. Take this milk. Why do we drink COW milk?? Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said, 'I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these things when I squeeze 'em!'?”

Bill Watterson

Source: The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes

“You can make your superhero a psychopath, you can draw gut-splattering violence, and you can call it a "graphic novel," but comic books are still incredibly stupid.”

Bill Watterson

“The only permanent rule in Calvinball is that you can never play it the same way twice! (Calvin)”

Bill Watterson

Source: The Revenge of the Baby-Sat

“I should be doing my homework now. But the way I look at it, playing in the snow is a lot more important. Out here I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life.

- Such as?

- Procrastination and rationalization.”

Bill Watterson Calvin and Hobbes

Source: Calvin and Hobbes

“Calvin: It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
p62”

Bill Watterson

08 Nov 90
Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons

“MOMMMM, I'm thirsty… What's this, just water?”

Bill Watterson

Source: The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

“Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist -- how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!”

Bill Watterson

Interview with John Campanelli of The Plain Dealer http://www.cleveland.com/living/index.ssf/2010/02/bill_watterson_creator_of_belo.html

“It's always better to leave the party early. If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now "grieving" for "Calvin and Hobbes" would be wishing me dead and cursing newspapers for running tedious, ancient strips like mine instead of acquiring fresher, livelier talent. And I'd be agreeing with them.”

Bill Watterson

Interview with John Campanelli of The Plain Dealer http://www.cleveland.com/living/index.ssf/2010/02/bill_watterson_creator_of_belo.html

“The only part I understand is what went into the creation of the strip. What readers take away from it is up to them. Once the strip is published, readers bring their own experiences to it, and the work takes on a life of its own. Everyone responds differently to different parts. I just tried to write honestly, and I tried to make this little world fun to look at, so people would take the time to read it. That was the full extent of my concern. You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens. I can't explain why the strip caught on the way it did, and I don't think I could ever duplicate it. A lot of things have to go right all at once.”

Bill Watterson

Interview with John Campanelli of The Plain Dealer http://www.cleveland.com/living/index.ssf/2010/02/bill_watterson_creator_of_belo.html

“Calvin: Somewhere in Communist Russia, I'll bet there's a little boy who has never known anything but censorship and oppression. But maybe he's heard of America, and he dreams of living in this land of freedom and opportunity! Someday, I'd like to meet that little boy…and tell him the awful TRUTH ABOUT THIS PLACE!!
Calvin's Dad: Calvin, be quiet and eat the stupid Lima beans.”

Bill Watterson Calvin and Hobbes

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Calvin & Hobbes