I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word ‘booger’ in a newspaper comic strip.
BILL WATTERSONI hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word ‘booger’ in a newspaper comic strip.
BILL WATTERSONI would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn’t please him, so he sent me packing.
BILL WATTERSONEverybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
BILL WATTERSONYou know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.
BILL WATTERSONCalvin: Today for show and tell, I’ve brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake!
BILL WATTERSONWe don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
BILL WATTERSONI’ve got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
BILL WATTERSONRainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.
BILL WATTERSONEveryone knows that! Hobbes: I’m looking it up. Calvin: You do, and I’ll look up that 12-letter word you played with all the Xs and Js! Hobbes: What’s your score for ZQFMGB? Calvin: 957.
BILL WATTERSONI’M SIGNIFICANT!!! … Say’s the dust speck.
BILL WATTERSONWhen life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.
BILL WATTERSONThe strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.
BILL WATTERSONThat’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.
BILL WATTERSONAnimals aren’t conditional about friendships. Animals like you just the way you are. They listen to your problems, they comfort you when you’re sad, and all they ask in return is a little kindness.
BILL WATTERSONRaised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you’re old and weak… Am I scary, or what?
BILL WATTERSONMothers are the necessity of invention.
BILL WATTERSON