"I Could Do Better If I Had More Space."

Posted on the 08 June 2014 by Russellarbenfox
The fantastic tale of how Stephan Pastis, author and artist of the very fine (though not, in my humble opinion, truly great) comic strip Pearls Before Swine, ended up drawing the reclusive genius of Calvin and Hobbes (very simply, one of the four or five utterly essential comic strips in the entire history of the medium), Bill Watterson, back to America's newspapers under the greatest secrecy has been bouncing around social media today, and probably everyone who is the sort of person who would geek ought with delight at such news has already heard it. Well, so what? If for whatever reason you're reading this blog post, and you--like all right-thinking people--dearly miss Calvin and Hobbes, but somehow haven't heard the amazing story of how Watterson actually emerged from his world of privacy and secretly shared his wit and skill with the reading public, well, read this, and then enjoy the resulting strips. And see if you can spot Watterson's work (hint: it's not hard).





As they say, some guys have all the luck. But fortunately, sometimes they share it.