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The Bill Watterson Interview - The Comics Journal

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In this 1989 interview, Bill Watterson talks about the tension between realities in Calvin and Hobbes, how popular art doesn't have to pander, nuance, animation and why he chose not license the strip.

From The Comics Journal #127 (March 1989) , and conducted by Richard Samuel West. Calvin and Hobbes is America’s hottest comic strip. After less than three years in syndication, it appears in more than 600 newspapers. The three Calvin and Hobbes collections are permanent fixtures on The New York Times best-seller list. And its creator, Bill Watterson, has already won the coveted National Cartoonist Society Cartoonist of the Year award. So why haven’t you seen the Calvin and Hobbes characters splattered across the American landscape on burger glasses, greeting cards, and as stuffed toys? Becaus

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