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title: In search of Bill Watterson
date: "2006-01-11T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - my-best-links
wp_id: 426
description: I share Len's journey to track down Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson. He visits Watterson's hometown, interviews his mother, and discovers that Bill's father is the model for the comic strip's dad character.
keywords: [bill watterson, calvin and hobbes, comic strips, jawbone radio, chagrin falls, cartoonists]
---

Len goes [in search of Bill Watterson](http://jawboneradio.blogspot.com/2005/11/jawbone-81-in-search-of-bill-watterson.html), the author of Calvin and Hobbes. He visits Bill's home town, and manages to interview Mom. Apparantly, Dad is quite like Dad, but Bill is more like Hobbes than Calvin.