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^^^^^^ One of the greatest comics ever. Enjoy!!
 
The best ever. Bill Watterson had an incredible way of parsing the burdens of human existence through a boy and his stuffed tiger. Many times I've been struck by the wisdom that comes through his wit.
 
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Calvin and Hobbes' Bill Watterson Weaves a Dark Fable That's Not for Kids in THE MYSTERIES (Review)​

The Mysteries is a book that dares you to unravel it. Developed via a years-long collaboration between caricaturist John Kascht and Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson, both the words and images are evocative, but leave much to the imagination. The graphic novel is 72 pages long, but only about 350 words, demanding the reader fill in any gaps they find themselves.

Billed as a dark fable for adults, The Mysteries tells the story of an old kingdom, fearful of the creatures they call Mysteries that live in the dark. The king sends out his knights to capture a Mystery, believing that actually seeing one will make it less fearsome.

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Life After “Calvin and Hobbes”​

“Nothing is permanent. Everything changes. That’s the one thing we know for sure in this world,” Calvin says to Hobbes in the first panel of a two-panel strip that ran in more than two thousand newspapers on Monday, July 17, 1995. The two friends are in a wagon, plummeting perilously forward into the unseen—a common pastime for them. Outside the world of the cartoon, it’s less than half a year before Bill Watterson, thirty-seven at the time, will retire from producing his wildly beloved work. “Calvin and Hobbes,” which débuted in 1985, centered on six-year-old Calvin and his best friend, Hobbes, a tiger who to everyone other than Calvin appears to be a stuffed animal. Six days a week, the strip appeared in short form, in black-and-white, and each Sunday it was longer and in color. The second panel of the July 17th strip is wide, with detailed trees in the foreground, the wagon airborne, and Calvin concluding his thought: “But I’m still going to gripe about it.”

After retiring, Watterson assiduously avoided becoming a public figure. He turned his attention to painting, music, and family life. He kept the work he made to himself; he gave few, but not zero, interviews. (When asked in an e-mail interview that ran in 2013 in Mental Floss why he didn’t share his paintings, he replied, “It’s all catch and release—just tiny fish that aren’t really worth the trouble to clean and cook.”) Still, now and again his handiwork appeared. He wrote twice about Charles M. Schulz, the creator of “Peanuts,” whom he never met. For the charity of the cartoonist Richard Thompson, who had been given a diagnosis of Parkinson’s, Watterson illustrated three strips for “Pearls Before Swine,” by Stephan Pastis, and also donated a painting for auction. In other words, he came out for the team.

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Life After “Calvin and Hobbes”

Bill Watterson’s return to print, after nearly three decades, comes in the form of a fable called “The Mysteries,” which shares with his famous comic strip a sense of enchantment.
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