Bill Watterson
Real Name and aliases:
Website:
Country:
U.S.A
Character:
Calvin(creator), Hobbes(creator), Susie Derkins(creator), Rosalyn(creator)
Award:
- 1986: Reuben Award, Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year,
- 1988: Reuben Award, Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year,
- 1988: National Cartoonists Society, Newspaper Comic Strips Humor Award,
- 1988: Sproing Award, for Tommy og Tigern (Calvin and Hobbes),
- 1989: Harvey Award, Special Award for Humor, for Calvin and Hobbes,
- 1990: Harvey Award, Best Syndicated Comic Strip, for Calvin and Hobbes,
- 1990: Max & Moritz Prize, Best Comic Strip, for Calvin and Hobbes,
- 1991: Harvey Award, Best Syndicated Comic Strip, for Calvin and Hobbes,
- 1991: Adamson Award, for Kalle och Hobbe (Calvin and Hobbes),
- 1992: Harvey Award, Best Syndicated Comic Strip, for Calvin and Hobbes,
- 1992: Eisner Award, Best Comic Strip Collection, for The Revenge of the Baby-Sat,
- 1993: Eisner Award, Best Comic Strip Collection, for Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons,
- 1993, 1994, 1995, 19962014: Grand Prix, Angoulême International Comics Festival: Eisner Award, Best Comic Strip Collection, for Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons,
- 2020: Inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame
Biography
William Boyd Watterson II (born July 5, 1958) is a retired American cartoonist and the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, which was syndicated from 1985 to 1995. Watterson stopped drawing Calvin and Hobbes at the end of 1995, with a short statement to newspaper editors and his readers that he felt he had achieved all he could in the medium. Watterson is known for his negative views on comic syndication and licensing, his efforts to expand and elevate the newspaper comic as an art form, and his move back into private life after he stopped drawing Calvin and Hobbes. Watterson was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. The suburban Midwestern United States setting of Ohio was part of the inspiration for Calvin and Hobbes.
