Bill Watterson
Bill Watterson was born on July 5, 1958, to the loving parents of Kathryn and James G. Watterson. Bill has a younger brother named Thomas, who was a great contributor to Bill’s imagination. When Bill was six years old, he moved to Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Here is where most of the Calvin and Hobbes adventures would take place. In 1980 Bill graduated from Kenyon College. He graduated with a BA in political science. Once he graduated the Cincinnati Post hired him to draw political cartoons. He was fired a few months after he was hired. After he was fired, Bill designed grocery advertisements for four years before starting Calvin and Hobbes.
At the young age of twenty seven, Bill started on a cartoon strip called Calvin and Hobbes. The main idea of the strip is the adventures of a six year old boy (Calvin) and his pet tiger (Hobbes), which seemed alive only to Calvin. The first issue was published on November 19, 1985, and was distributed by Universal Press Syndicate. The first issue......
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