Bill Watterson

Bill Watterson is the American cartoonist who created *Calvin and Hobbes*, the comic strip about a six-year-old boy and his stuffed tiger that ran from 1985 to 1995.

Watterson famously refused to license his characters for merchandise and retired at the height of the strip's popularity, becoming known for his reclusive nature and principled stance against commercialization.

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