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user-inactivated  ·  3823 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Bill Watterson just did a Pearls Before Swine cameo

    “Dear Bill,

    I will do whatever you want, including setting my hair on fire.”

    So he wrote back and explained his idea.

    He said he knew that in my strip, I frequently make fun of my own art skills. And that he thought it would be funny to have me get hit on the head or something and suddenly be able to draw. Then he’d step in and draw my comic strip for a few days.

    That’s right.

    The cartoonist who last drew Calvin and Hobbes riding their sled into history would return to the comics page.

    To draw Pearls Before Swine.

Fuck me this is surprising.





rob05c  ·  3822 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, as Pastis put it, "Bill Watterson is the Bigfoot of cartooning."

He also came out of the woodwork to do a poster for Stripped, a recent comics documentary by the author of Sheldon and Drive.

user-inactivated  ·  3822 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Maybe he's getting senile and paradoxically less reclusive with age since he was already like a level 80 hermit