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Bill Watterson (William B. Watterson II, born on July 5, 1958) is the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. He went to college at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio and graduated in 1980 with a degree in political science. He drew political cartoons for a while [what newspaper, anybody?]. |
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Bill Watterson (William B. Watterson II, born on July 5, 1958) is the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. He went to college at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio and graduated in 1980 with a degree in political science. For a while he drew political cartoons for the Cincinnati Post. |
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Watterson was awarded the Reuben Award for "Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year" from the National Cartoonist Society in 1986, the youngest person to win the award. In 1988 he won the award again, and was nominated in 1992. |
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Watterson was awarded the Reuben Award for "Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year" from the National Cartoonists Society in 1986, the youngest person to win the award. In 1988 he won the award again, and was nominated in 1992. |
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Watterson spent a huge portion of his career trying to change the climate of comics. He believed that comics have been cheapened over time, that their artistic value was being undermined, and that the space they occupied in newspapers continually decreased and was subject to arbitrary whims of publishers. Watterson believed that art should not be judged by the medium in which it is created for (there is no high art or low art, just art). |
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Watterson spent a huge portion of his career trying to change the climate of comics. He believed that the artistic value of comics was being undermined, and that the space they occupied in newspapers continually decreased and was subject to arbitrary whims of publishers. Watterson believed that art should not be judged by the medium in which it is created for (there is no high art or low art, just art). |
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