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                  Yet another Bill Watterson interview found!
                                        
> Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist—how I miss the groupies, drugs and
> trashed hotel rooms!
> 
> But since my “rock star” days, the public attention has faded a lot. In Pop
> Culture Time, the 1990s were eons ago. There are occasional flare-ups of
> weirdness, but mostly I just go about my quiet life and do my best to
> ignore the rest. I'm proud of the strip, enormously grateful for its
> success, and truly flattered that people still read it, but I wrote “Calvin
> and Hobbes” in my 30s, and I'm many miles from there. 
> 

Via Hacker News [1], “ Bill Watterson, creator of beloved 'Calvin and Hobbes'
comic strip looks back with no regrets | Living - cleveland.com -
cleveland.com [2]”

It's not the best Bill Watterson interview (a much better interview [3] was
done by Andrews McMeel Publishing [4]) but that answer is just great.

The reason for even linking to this is that any interview with Bill Watterson
is a very rare event. Heck, even pictures of the artist are very rare and so
far, I think this is the only picture I've seen of him:

[Reminds me of Calvin's dad, or maybe his uncle Max] [5]
 

Quite the recluse, that Mr. Watterson. [6]

He's also famous of not allowing any Calvin and Hobbes merchandising,
although it does appear he relunctantly gave his endorsement for a new
product coming out in July:

[Cheeeeeeese!] [7] 

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1092777
[2] http://www.cleveland.com/living/index.ssf/2010/02/bill_watterson_creato
[3] http://www.andrewsmcmeel.com/calvinandhobbes/interview.html
[4] http://www.andrewsmcmeel.com/
[5] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2010/02/01/billwatterson_500.jpg
[6] http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10020/1029428-
[7] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2010/02/01/calvin_500.jpg

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