Bill Watterson

Born 5 July 1958

From Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States · Nationality: United States

William Boyd "Bill" Watterson II (born July 5, 1958) is an American cartoonist and the author of the influential and popular comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. His career as a syndicated cartoonist ran from 1985 to 1995; he retired at the end of 1995 with a short statement to newspaper editors and his fans that he felt he had achieved all he could in the comic strip medium.

Quotes

“Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist -- how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!”
Interview with John Campanelli of The Plain Dealer

Quotes from Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Books by Bill Watterson in order

Books by Bill Watterson in the order they were published, from Calvin and Hobbes (1987) to The Mysteries (2023).

If you like Bill Watterson

Authors readers of Bill Watterson often like, from our AI-written notes

Gary LarsonAlso a one-panel and strip cartoonist with a strong sense of absurd humor and a loyal following. The Far Side draws on similar playfulness about animals and everyday life.
Charles M. SchulzCreated Peanuts, which deals with childhood, friendship and disappointment in a comic strip form. Readers who like Calvin and Hobbes often enjoy his melancholy and humor about children.
Bill AmendWrites FoxTrot, a family-and-school strip that mixes gentle domestic humor with wider social jokes and occasional fantasy.
Berkeley BreathedCreated Bloom County and Outland, which combine political satire with whimsy and fantasy, an approach some readers find close to Watterson's.
Gary TrudeauDoonesbury is a long-running strip with sharp satire, and it shares Watterson's strong interest in using the strip form to comment on wider life.