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Bill Watterson’s New Book Is Out. Here’s What He’s Done Since Calvin and Hobbes

Nearly 28 years since the final strip of his wildly popular Calvin and Hobbes last graced newspaper comics, Bill Watterson is back in the headlines with his first new book since that wildly popular comic strip.

The Mysteries by Bill Watterson and John Kascht

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Watterson has partnered with caricaturist John Kascht on The Mysteries, which released Tuesday. Described as a “fable for grown-ups” about “what lies beyond human understanding,” it tells the story of a long-ago kingdom afflicted with “unexplainable calamities,” prompting the king to dispatch his knights to investigate.

It’s a rare new release for the famously private artist. Watterson has largely kept out of the public eye since ending Calvin and Hobbes’ 10-year run in 1995. Described by The Washington Post as “the J.D. Salinger of the strips,” Watterson gives few interviews, rarely releases new artwork publicly, and made Time’s list of most reclusive celebrities.

“He would like it all to fade away

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A Short Biography Of Bill Watterson

by Tim Hulsizer, 2002

William B. Watterson II was born in Washington D.C. on July 5, 1958. At age 6, his family moved to Chagrin Falls, OH, where he spent his childhood alone much of the time, drawing as often as he could. In high school, he drew cartoons for the school newspaper and yearbook. His parents both served on the city council, and it's interesting to note that his father is a patent attorney, the same profession as Calvin's dad. Bill has a younger brother, though little is known about him, which is the way Bill prefers it. An intensely private man, Watterson seeks solitude for himself and for his family.

Bill attended Kenyon College in Gambier, OH from 1976 - 1980, where he drew for the school newspaper 'The Kenyon Collegian'. Graduating with a degree in political science, Bill was immediately hired by The Cincinnatti Post as a political cartoonist. Though knowledgeable about the subject matter, Bill always felt ill-suited for that particular vocation, and the paper felt the same way. Less than six months after he'd begun, he f

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“Nothing is permanent. Everything changes. That’s the one thing we know for sure in this world,” Calvin says to Hobbes in the first panel of a two-panel strip that ran in more than two thousand newspapers on Monday, July 17, 1995. The two friends are in a wagon, plummeting perilously forward into the unseen—a common pastime for them. Outside the world of the cartoon, it’s less than half a year before Bill Watterson, thirty-seven at the time, will retire from producing his wildly beloved work. “Calvin and Hobbes,” which débuted in 1985, centered on six-year-old Calvin and his best friend, Hobbes, a tiger who to everyone other than Calvin appears to be a stuffed animal. Six days a week, the strip appeared in short form, in black-and-white, and each Sunday it was longer and in color. The second panel of the July 17th strip is wide, with detailed trees in the foreground, the wagon airborne, and Calvin concluding his thought: “But I’m still going to gripe about it.”

After retiring, Watterson assiduously avoided becoming a public figure. He turned his attention to painting, music, and