About Bill Watterson

" Meet the creative genius of Calvin and Hobbes! I hereby present to you, Bill Watterson!

PERSONAL DETAILS

Watterson was born the 5th of July 1958, in Washington D.C. At the age of six, he moved to Chagrin Falls in Ohio. He has a younger brother. His father was an attorney and his mother served on the city council. They claim their son was 'nothing' like Calvin. He lives with his wife, Melissa, their adopted children and several cats in Hudson, Ohio.

HISTORY

As a kid, he spent hours drawing cartoons. After college, at Kenyon College, he worked six months at The Cincinnati Post as an editorial cartoonist. Staffers at the Post remember Watterson as 'that little guy with the round glasses, who was really strange.' He kept trying to sell comic strips, but failed. 'I don't regret the years of effort and disappointment,' Watterson once recalled.

ACHIEVEMENTS

After trying six other strips, he finally hit on 'Calvin and Hobbes', in 1985. In 1986, he won a 'Reuben', the top award of the National Cartoonists Society (NCS). He did it again in 1988. He Graduated from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, in 1980 with a degree in political science, but says: 'I always wanted to draw a comic strip.'

CONTACT INFO

c/o Universal Press Syndicate,
4900 Main Street,
Kansas City,
MO 64119 "

- Information courtesy of Calvin and Hobbes Fireside.

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