Bill Watterson publishes first comic in 18 years

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http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/02/27/283437272/calvin-hobbes-creator-pens-his-first-public-comic-in-18-years

Almost two decades after publishing his last Calvin & Hobbes comic strip, elusive cartoonist Bill Watterson is back — with a film poster. The documentary, , is a self-described "love letter to comic strips" that includes interviews with, among others, Jeff Keane of , Richard Thompson of and Watterson himself.

The poster shows a cartoonist being startled out of his clothing and into his birthday suit by a headline about the death of newspapers — all as his tablet-reading dog looks on.

Watterson , "Given the movie's title and the fact that there are few things funnier than human nudity, the idea popped into my head largely intact. The film is a big valentine to comics, so I tried to do something really cartoon-y."

As fans — and viewers of the recent documentary — might already know, Watterson is just as famous for his reclusiveness as for his panels about a shock-headed boy and his tiger. He also refused to license images from Calvin & Hobbes, which is why the characters never appeared on lunchboxes or as stuffed animals.

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1. When I see anything about Watterson this come to mind.

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2. I've met him a couple of times

He's not at all like the picture (physical or otherwise) I had of him in my head, but that's all I'll say.

And, yeah, that's one of his better pieces. Though I do always love that Calvin could pull him out of his grown-up pessimism, if only for a panel or two...

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3. Need to clean up tags in the text -- titles in italic(?) are invisible.

Try changing <> to []