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Bill Watterson

Bill (William II) Watterson (Born 1958) is active/lives in Ohio, District Of Columbia.  Bill Watterson is known for Cartoonist-"Calvin and Hobbes".

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 stopped drawing Calvin and Hobbes 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.  During the early years of his career he produced several drawings and additional contributions for Target: The Political Cartoon Quarterly. Watterson is known for his views on licensing and comic syndication, as well as for his reclusive nature. He drew his first cartoon at the age of 8.

William Boyd Watterson was born in Washington, D.C. in 1958, where his father, James G. Watterson, worked as a patent examiner while going to George Washington University Law School before becoming a patent attorney in 1960.

In 1964, when Bill was six years old the   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 12157 characters.]  Artist bio

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