On Bill Waterson's Upcoming Book – And Why He Vanished – Slashdot

On Bill Waterson’s Upcoming Book – And Why He Vanished (theamericanconservative.com) Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday August 20, 2023 @12:34AM from the let’s-go-exploring dept. In 1995 Bill Watterson walked away from “the madness that had consumed him for practically his entire adulthood,” writes the American Conservative. Though everyone loved his Calvin & Hobbes comic strip, “I had virtually no life beyond the drawing board,” he said of the years leading up to the decision… So it came as some surprise earlier this year when Watterson’s publisher announced his first new book in nearly thirty years. The Mysteries is a “modern fable”… [“For the book’s illustrations, Watterson and caricaturist John Kascht worked together for several years in unusually close collaboration,” explains the upcoming book’s web page. “Both artists abandoned their past ways of working, inventing images together that neither could anticipate — a mysterious process in its own right.”] At seventy-two pages, the book itself is a slight thing, in no way a return to the daily grind of the funny pages. It is being sold exclusively in print. And, typical of Watterson, press access is limited. [Publisher] Andrews McMeel is not sending review copies until the week of its publication
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