Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and his Revolutionary Comic Strip [Hardcover]

For ten years, Calvin and Hobbes was one the world's most beloved comic strips. And then, on the last day of 1995, the strip ended. Its mercurial and reclusive creator, Bill Watterson, not only finished the strip but withdrew entirely from public life.

In Looking for Calvin and Hobbes, Nevin Martell sets out on a very personal odyssey to understand the life and career of the intensely private man behind Calvin and Hobbes. Martell talks to a wide range of artists and writers (including Dave Barry, Harvey Pekar, and Brad Bird) as well as some of Watterson's closest friends and professional colleagues, and along the way reflects upon the nature of his own fandom and on the extraordinary legacy that Watterson left behind. This is as close as we're ever likely to get to one of America's most ingenious and intriguing figures - and it's the fascinating story of an intrepid author's search for him, too.

An affectionate and revealing book about uncovering the story behind this most uncommon trio - a man, a boy and his tiger. Martell gets as close as anybody can to Watterson in a book that takes the reader behind the strip, a well-researched portrait of the cartoonist that is both fascinating and revealing. -Currents Barry Goodrich

Prologue



1. Working on a Dream



2. Making Friends



3. Standing on the Shoulders of Giants



4. A Boy And His Tiger



5. Calvin in Wonderland



6. Welcome to the Machine



7. This is How You Disappear



8. Under the Influence



9. There and Back Again



10. The Future is Always Uncertain

Epilogue