Bill is alive and kicking and is currently 62 years old.
However, the unfamiliarity of the political situation in Cincinnati made him as well as the newspaper feel that he was a misfit for the job, and he was let go before his contract ended.Bill Watterson then joined a small- scale advertising agency where he had to design advertisements for groceries and design ads. In 1993, Bill Watterson battled Universal Press Syndicate when it was discovered his contract allowed for merchandising. Bill Watterson received the Reuben Award for ‘Cartoonist of the Year’ by the NCS. He once again received the same award in 1988.The National Cartoonists Society awarded him the ‘Newspaper Comic Strips Award’ in 1988.In 1989, he received the Harvey Award in the ‘Special Award for Humor’ category for his work ‘Calvin and Hobbes’.He received the Harvey Award for ‘Best Syndicated Comic Strip’ for seven consecutive years, i.e. The duo collaborated to assist the Michael J Foundation and Team Cul de Sac.He has also contributed his poster art for the documentary titled ‘Stripped’.https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/william-boyd-watterson-ii-864.php
He drew Calvin's father to look exactly like himself, for symbolism. The final "Calvin and Hobbes" piece ran on December 31, 1995.In 2014, in an effort to raise money to fight Parkinson’s disease, it was revealed that Bill Watterson collaborated with cartoonist Bill Watterson and his wife live in Cleveland, where he keeps a low profile and declines most interview requests. First Name Bill #25. Throughout school he engaged in artistic activities, and was encouraged by his parents to nurture his interests.He was deeply influenced by cartoonists Charles Schulz, George Herriman, and Walt Kelly. See the events in life of Bill Watterson in Chronological Order However, they were doubtful about being able to sell the comic strip to newspapers.At this point Universal Press Syndicate bought the strip in 1985 and began publishing the comic strip titled ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. In 1980, Watterson graduated from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio with a degree in political science. The couple lives in Cleveland and keeps a very low public profile.Bill Watterson collaborated with cartoonist Stephan Pastis on comic strip ‘Pearls before Swine’ in 2014 as a fundraiser to fight against Parkinson’s disease. Bill Watterson, creator of the syndicated cartoon strip " Calvin & Hobbes" is shown in this 1986 file photo.
Birthday July Jul 5, 1958 .
Bill Watterson was born in Washington D.C, United States on Saturday, July 5, 1958 (Baby Boomers Generation). He was once approached with a offer to create a strip featuring the character of a robot with a propeller on his head, which had a huge licensing program planned with plush toys.
The comic strip was syndicated for ten years from 1985 to 1995 at the end of which he announced his retirement from cartoon work. Bill Watterson is the creator of Calvin and Hobbes, one of the most popular and well-regarded cartoon strips of the twentieth century. This period in his life was important, he later said, because it proved to him that the substance of his work mattered more than money. He is known to have taken interest in painting.In December 1999, he wrote a short note on the event of the forthcoming end of the iconic comic strip ‘Peanuts’.In 2005, he answered reader’s questions and two years later wrote a review for the biography of cartoonist Charles Schulz titled ‘Schulz and Peanuts’.He has given only two interviews since his comic strip ended, the first in 2010 for newspaper ‘The Plain Dealer’ and the second in October 2013 for magazine ‘Mental Floss’.