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xipiti · 1 year
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Bill Watterson, the man responsible for a decade of Calvin & Hobbes comics, is coming out of retirement for a new illustrated storybook, The Mysteries, that is set to release this October. Just in time for spooky season.
Starting in 1985, Watterson wrote and drew Calvin and Hobbes, a comedic and sometimes heartwarming newspaper comic series about a young boy and his imaginary tiger, until abruptly ending the strip in 1995. At the time, the series was hugely popular, so it came as a shock to many that he was done with it. In 2010, he explained in a rare interview that after a decade of writing and drawing the strip he had said “pretty much everything” he wanted to and that it was “always better to leave the party early.” Since then he’s mostly stayed out of the public eye and has done very few projects—the most notable and most recent was a three-day guest run on the comic Pearls Before Swine in 2014.
However, the reclusive and legendary comic creator is coming out of retirement for a big and surprising new project, an illustrated storybook aimed at adults. To help him create this book, officially titled The Mysteries, Watterson has partnered with caricaturist John Kascht. Here’s the publisher-provided synopsis for the book:
In a fable for grown-ups by cartoonist Bill Watterson, a long-ago kingdom is afflicted with unexplainable calamities. Hoping to end the torment, the king dispatches his knights to discover the source of the mysterious events. Years later, a single battered knight returns.
According to the book’s publisher, Simon and Schuster, the two artists have been working on the book for years in “unusually close collaboration” with them trying out new ways to work and create images, calling the whole process “mysterious…in its own right.”
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renegadecut · 5 months
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headspacedad · 2 months
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so
was no one going to tell me Bill Watterson had finally written a new book?
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my sister found it in a bookstore yesterday and bought it for me. The first line of the short story felt like coming home and for some reason it almost made me cry with relief and loneliness and longing. It took me forever to turn the page because I was savoring it.
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It's not Calvin and Hobbes and the art is by John Kascht and yet it is so very distinctly Bill Watterson that there was no mistaking the writing.
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It was like catching a scent while walking through a place you've never been and yet recognizing it and immediately feeling young and imprinted with a memory you can't remember, only feel.
Especially the end.
Gang, after all this very long time, there's a new Bill Watterson book out. It's called The Mysteries. It is not Calvin and Hobbes. It is still very entirely Bill Watterson.
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That's right, Bill Watterson, who pretty much disappeared off the face of the earth ever since Calvin and Hobbes ended in 1995, is coming back with a new graphic novel.
I can't even begin to describe how world-changing this news is, guys.
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yes-asil · 6 months
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The urge to rewatch/catch up on Detective Conan is making me claw at my own cheeks
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magic-shopp · 10 days
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the fact that we- humans and actually the whole planet we live on doesn't even constitutes 1% of the universe and that this universe keeps expanding with the speed more than of our heartbeat, scares me to the moon and back
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alephskoteinos · 2 months
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Dying to yourself (going to the underworld and receiving the mysteries)
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seasidesapphix · 6 months
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my copy of the mysteries arrives tomorrow! ٩(^ᴗ^)۶
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smashpages · 1 year
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Preview pages from (I can’t believe I get to type his name here) Bill Watterson and John Kascht’s The Mysteries, coming October 2023.
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msbarrows · 1 year
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Ooo... something new coming from the Calvin and Hobbes guy. I want it, sight unseen.
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Curtain call for the last Mysteries show at The Flea with the original cast!!
scrolled quite a ways for that picture, like i immediately recognize the red splattered strip curtains in that thumbnail....final play of the cycle being "sermon of the senses" which by all indication has the characters (not sure if everyone doesn't become Ensemble by that point) are in modern day costuming
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finding fresh hd production pics & no lucifer? even [i think there was bdsm elements in the crucifixion play. there should be kink in the shadow of the valley of death] can only be so sexual
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xlntwtch2 · 5 months
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From Bill Watterson, bestselling creator of the beloved comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, and John Kascht, one of America’s most renowned caricaturists, comes a mysterious and beautifully illustrated fable about what lies beyond human understanding.  In a fable for grown-ups by cartoonist Bill Watterson, a long-ago kingdom is afflicted with unexplainable calamities. Hoping to end the torment, the king dispatches his knights to discover the source of the mysterious events. Years later, a single battered knight returns. For the book's illustrations, Watterson and caricaturist John Kascht worked together for several years in unusually close collaboration. Both artists abandoned their past ways of working, inventing images together that neither could anticipate—a mysterious process in its own right.  With The Mysteries, Watterson and Kascht share the fascinating genesis of their extraordinary collaboration in a video that can be viewed on Andrews McMeel Publishing's YouTube page. 
this is on amazon ... but for more, read the new yorker magazine and goodreads and many various book reviews ... <3
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xipiti · 6 months
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Bill Watterson! His new book, The Mysteries— a collaboration with his friend and fellow artist John Kascht— is out now. The video narrates their process for creating a book that fuses their nearly-irreconcilably different styles and approaches to creative work.
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darkobssessions · 9 months
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Self Love Altar & Dedication to Hecate
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👁🕸🕷🐦‍⬛🪺🍂❤️‍🔥❤️🌹🥀
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maxladcomics · 2 years
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Went theory/lore hunting with @fluo-skeletons and came up with something very interesting
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thomashewittslover · 4 months
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Heal your mind and your spirit and the rest will follow. ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹
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