Bill Watterson Bio (Biography)
Real name:
Bill Watterson
Date of birth:
August 20. 1973
Place of birth:
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Astrology Sign:
Leo
Biography
The brains behind the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, William Bill Waterson III created a whole new idea in comics industry. Waterson was born on July 5, 1958 in Washington DC. His father James G. Watterson was a patent examiner and his mother Kathryn was a city council member.
Waterson is actually a political cartoonist, a Political Science graduate of Kenyon College (Gambier). He was initially offered the cartoonist position. He later published his popular Calvin and Hobbes comic in an attempt to elevate newspaper comic writing. He counteracts the usual newspaper standards in cartoon writing and he managed to change this usual standard practice in newspaper cartoons.
He wanted his work valued and never compromise to sell his ideas by pasting Calvin and Hobbes images on commercial items like stickers, t-shirts and mugs. He made sure that his cartoons appeared to be real as they are as he refused to sell the rights for Calvin and Hobbes to appear in an animated series.
Calvin and Hobbes were the characters Watterson dearly loved. The comic strip was first published on November 18, 1985. He greatly influenced other comic strip writers like Charles Schulz (Peanuts), Walt Kelly (Pogo) and George Herriman (Krazy Kat). Calvin and Hobbes last publication was released on December 31, 1995 and Watterson thereafter retired, switched to painting.
Waterson is a public person who refused to sign autographs or even license his characters to maintain his valuable work and profession. Watterson was awarded the National Cartoonist Society Humor Strip Award in 1998 and the Reuben Award in 1986. The National Cartoonist Society declared that the award given to Waterson was a once in a lifetime award when they declared that the same recipient could not be nominated twice.
These days, Watterson retired in the public eye without any indication of coming back in the cartoon writing industry. He spends his days with wife Melissa in Chagrin, Falls Ohio.
Waterson is actually a political cartoonist, a Political Science graduate of Kenyon College (Gambier). He was initially offered the cartoonist position. He later published his popular Calvin and Hobbes comic in an attempt to elevate newspaper comic writing. He counteracts the usual newspaper standards in cartoon writing and he managed to change this usual standard practice in newspaper cartoons.
He wanted his work valued and never compromise to sell his ideas by pasting Calvin and Hobbes images on commercial items like stickers, t-shirts and mugs. He made sure that his cartoons appeared to be real as they are as he refused to sell the rights for Calvin and Hobbes to appear in an animated series.
Calvin and Hobbes were the characters Watterson dearly loved. The comic strip was first published on November 18, 1985. He greatly influenced other comic strip writers like Charles Schulz (Peanuts), Walt Kelly (Pogo) and George Herriman (Krazy Kat). Calvin and Hobbes last publication was released on December 31, 1995 and Watterson thereafter retired, switched to painting.
Waterson is a public person who refused to sign autographs or even license his characters to maintain his valuable work and profession. Watterson was awarded the National Cartoonist Society Humor Strip Award in 1998 and the Reuben Award in 1986. The National Cartoonist Society declared that the award given to Waterson was a once in a lifetime award when they declared that the same recipient could not be nominated twice.
These days, Watterson retired in the public eye without any indication of coming back in the cartoon writing industry. He spends his days with wife Melissa in Chagrin, Falls Ohio.