After 20 years of retirement, the famously reclusive artist makes guest appearance in Pearls Before Swine strip
Back on the strip … Bill Watterson, at work on a Calvin and Hobbes strip in 1986. Photograph: AP
The notoriously reclusive Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson – described, variously, as the "JD Salinger of the strips" and the "Bigfoot of cartooning" – has made a surprise venture out of an almost 20-year retirement to feature in the Pearls Before Swine comic strip.
Watterson's guest appearances see artist Stephan Pastis ceding control of his strip to a second-grade girl called Libby – a nod to Bill – after she mocks his drawing, and boasts that she can do it better. "Here's my pen, Lib … knock yourself out," says the cartoon version of Pastis. The strip then changes in style to feature a crocodile eating Pastis – "now we drawn gud, this strip funnier already," says an onlooking crocodile – a Martian robot attack, and Pastis surrounded by adoring women.
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Watterson's guest appearances see artist Stephan Pastis ceding control of his strip to a second-grade girl called Libby – a nod to Bill – after she mocks his drawing, and boasts that she can do it better. "Here's my pen, Lib … knock yourself out," says the cartoon version of Pastis. The strip then changes in style to feature a crocodile eating Pastis – "now we drawn gud, this strip funnier already," says an onlooking crocodile – a Martian robot attack, and Pastis surrounded by adoring women.
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