Bill Watterson is the Bigfoot of cartooning.
He is legendary. He is reclusive. And like Bigfoot, there is really only one photo of him in existence.
Few in the cartooning world have ever spoken to him. Even fewer have ever met him.
In fact, legend has it that when Steven Spielberg called to see if he wanted to make a movie, Bill wouldn’t even take the call.
So it was with little hope of success that I set out to try and meet him last April.
I was traveling through Cleveland on a book tour, and I knew that he lived somewhere in the area. I also knew that he was working with Washington Post cartoonist Nick Galifianakis on a book about Cul de Sac cartoonist Richard Thompson’s art.
So I took a shot and wrote to Nick. And Nick in turn wrote to Watterson.
And the meeting…
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Awesome!!! I missed this. Thank you for posting! 🙂
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Hell yeah! I wouldn’t have known these were his unless I had just read this article you linked to. (I kind of felt a bit of “dilbert” in there, even though that’s totally not the same damn thing). Either way, ever since I crossed “something under the bed is drooling”, I was pretty much hooked 😉 Nice find.
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