Bill William Watterson

Bill William Watterson bio

Who is bill watterson?Bill watterson is an illustrator for his known book for his comic book creation “ Calvin and Hobbes” about a boy and his fake friend.

Bill watterson was born on July the 5th 1958 in Washington D.C. While attending Kenyon college.Watterson drew cartoons for the college paper, leading to a position at the Cincinnati post. Watterson wanted to draw comic strips and began trying syndicate his original creation “ Calvin and Hobbes” a cartoon about a controlled boy and his fake friend that went on to garner wide fame.

Bills early life When he was 6 years old, Bill watterson moved with his father james, a patent attorney, and his mother, Kathryn, to chagrin falls, Ohio.After the family settled in, Kathryn soon won a job in the city council.James Watterson would also be in the city council, but not till the same 30 years.

As a child bill watterson “-unlike his creation clavin-”never had imaginary Animale friends later he remembered “ I generally stayed out of troubled, i did fairly well in school.” He developed in early interest in drawing, and was inspired by classic cartoonist like “Peanuts” creator “Charles Schulz” and “Pogo” illustrator “Walt Kelly”.

In 1967, Watterson enrolled at Ohio Kenyon College, Where he spent four years drawing political cartoons for the collegian campus newspaper and a few weeks during his sophomore year painting a copy of Michel angelo's “Creation of Adam” on his dorm room ceiling.Following his 1980 graduation, Watterson was immediately offered a job as an editorial cartoonist at the Cincinnati post.

His editors were unimpressed with his work, However, and less than an year later Watterson found himself unemployed and found himself going back a living with his parents.He decided to leave political cartoons he was not particularly interested in politics anyway and return to his first love: Comic Strips.

Bill William is a really good drawer and has a really long childhood and he has more to his life apparently he is still alive and what the bad news he has retired from writing comic strips.