What comic strip is Bill Watterson best known for?”
Calvin and Hobbes is a syndicated daily comic strip written and illustrated by American cartoonist Bill Watterson, and first syndicated from November 18, 1985 to December 31, 1995. It follows the humorous antics of Calvin, an imaginative and adventurous six-year-old boy, and Hobbes, his energetic and sardonic stuffed tiger. The pair are named after John Calvin, a 16th-century French Reformation theologian, and Thomas Hobbes, a 17th-century English political philosopher.[2] At its height, Calvin and Hobbes was featured in over 2,400 newspapers worldwide; as of January 2010, reruns of the strip still appear in more than 50 countries (though not in North America).[1] Nearly 45 million copies of the 18 Calvin and Hobbes books have been sold.[1] Set in the contemporary Midwestern United States in an unspecified suburban community, the broad themes of the strip deal with Calvin’s flights of fantasy and his friendship with Hobbes, his misadventures, his unique views on a diverse range of poli
William B. “Bill” Watterson II (born July 5, 1958) is an American cartoonist and the author of the influential and popular comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. Watterson is known for his controversial views on licensing and comic syndication, as well as for being reclusive or media shy. His career as a syndicated cartoonist ran from 1985 to 1995; he retired 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.
