Watterson wrote a brief, tongue-in-cheek autobiography in the late 1980s.

In October 2007, Watterson wrote a review of Schulz and Peanuts, a biography of Charles Schulz, in The Wall Street Journal.

Lent wrote, " The first half-century of the comics spawned many kid strips, but only one could be elevated to the status of classic ... which innovated a number of sophisticated and refined touches used later by Charles Schulz and Bill Watterson ..." Comics artist Jerry Robinson said,

Watterson, who drew his first cartoon at age eight, spent much time in childhood alone, drawing and cartooning.

His syndicate, which has since become Universal Uclick, has said that the painting was the first new artwork from Watterson that the syndicate has seen since Calvin and Hobbes ended in 1995.

An inspiration for Bill Watterson and other cartoonists, Krazy Kat gained a considerable following among intellectuals during the 1920s and 1930s.

Other cartoonists such as Will Eisner, Charles Schulz and Bill Watterson have all cited Krazy Kat as a primary influence.

William " Bill " Boyd Watterson II ( born July 5, 1958 ) is an American cartoonist and the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, which was syndicated from 1985 to 1995.

Watterson stopped drawing Calvin and Hobbes at the end of 1995 with a short statement to newspaper editors and his readers that he felt he had achieved all he could in the medium.

Watterson is known for his views on licensing and comic syndication, as well as for his reclusive nature.

Watterson was born in Washington, D. C., where his father, James G. Watterson ( born 1932 ), worked as a patent examiner while going to George Washington University Law School before becoming a patent attorney in 1960.

In 1964, when Watterson was six years old, the family moved to Chagrin Falls, Ohio, where his mother, Kathryn Watterson, became a city council member.

From 1976 to 1980, Watterson attended Kenyon College and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science, while developing his art skills and contributing cartoons to the college newspaper.

Many of the cartoons and art Watterson did at Kenyon can be found online.

Jim Borgman had graduated from Kenyon before Watterson arrived, but his work as a political cartoonist so impressed Bill that he decided to pursue a career as one himself.

Later, when Watterson was creating names for the characters in his comic strip, he allegedly decided upon Calvin ( after the Protestant reformer John Calvin ) and Hobbes ( after the social philosopher Thomas Hobbes ) as a " tip of the hat " to the political science department at Kenyon.

In " The Complete Calvin And Hobbes ," Watterson does not name the inspiration for Calvin's character, but he does say Calvin is named for " a 16th-century theologian who believed in predestination ," and Hobbes for " a 17th-century philosopher with a dim view of human nature.

In 1980, Watterson graduated from Kenyon with a B. A.

Watterson has said he works for personal fulfillment.

Like many artists, Watterson incorporated elements of his life, interests, beliefs and values into his work — for example, his hobby as a cyclist, memories of his own father ’ s speeches about ‘ building character ’, and his views on merchandising and corporations.

Watterson spent much of his career trying to change the climate of newspaper comics.

Watterson battled against pressure from publishers to merchandise his work, something he felt would cheapen his comic.

Watterson was awarded the National Cartoonists Society's Humor Comic Strip Award in 1988 and the society's Reuben Award in 1986 ; he was the youngest person ever to receive the latter award.

Brahms wrote to Clara Schumann that the inspiration for the dramatic entry of the horn in the introduction to the last movement of his First Symphony was an alphorn melody he heard while vacationing in the Rigi area of Switzerland.

In 1923, Dewey wrote the introduction to Alexander's Constructive Conscious Control of the Individual.

She also wrote the updated introduction to Sagan's book The Cosmic Connection, the epilogue of Billions and Billions, and her own novel, A Famous Broken Heart.

In 1992, he wrote the introduction melody for the European football championship, which was organised by Sweden that year.

In addition to his novels, Campbell also wrote a column for X Ray Magazine in 2001, an issue of the popular comic series The Hire, comic book adaptations of his Man With The Screaming Brain and most recently he wrote the introduction to Josh Becker's The Complete Guide To Low Budget Feature Film Making.

He wrote the introduction to the liner notes and is visiting colleges across the nation discussing the significance of the set.

In his dedicatory introduction, Galileo wrote:

Prolific American writer Joyce Carol Oates wrote an introduction for a collection of Lovecraft stories.

Only fragments of the latter's work survive ( and the authenticity of these is debatable ) yet they allow us glimpses into the kind of tradition within which Herodotus wrote his own Histories, as for example in the introduction to Hecataeus's work, Genealogies:

In the introduction of the 1892 edition of Engels ( 1844 ) he notes that most of the conditions he wrote about in 1844 had been greatly improved.

In 1986, Jarmusch wrote and directed Down by Law, starring musicians John Lurie and Tom Waits, and Italian comic actor Roberto Benigni ( his introduction to American audiences ) as three convicts who escape from a New Orleans jailhouse.

The symbolic initiation of this new phase in Sartre ’ s work is packaged in the introduction he wrote for a new journal, Les Temps Modernes, in October 1945.

Kenji Tokitsu has suggested that the accepted birth date of 1584 for Musashi is wrong, as it is primarily based on a literal reading of the introduction to the Go Rin No Sho where Musashi states that the years of his life " add up to 60 " ( yielding the twelfth year of the Tensho era, or 1584, when working backwards from the well-documented date of composition ), when it should be taken in a more literary and imprecise sense, indicating not a specific age but merely that Musashi was in his sixties when he wrote it.

Anderson wrote Uncleftish Beholding, an introduction to atomic theory, using only Germanic-rooted words.

John Milton ( 1608 – 1674 ) wrote a textbook in logic or dialectic in Latin based on Ramus ' work, which has now been translated into English by Walter J. Ong and Charles J. Ermatinger in The Complete Prose Works of John Milton ( Yale University Press, 1982 ; 8: 206-407 ), with a lengthy introduction by Ong ( 144-205 ).

He also wrote an introduction to an edition of Frederick Rolfe ( Baron Corvo ) ’ s translation into English of Nicolas ’ s French translation.

In 1990, Colin Escott wrote an introduction to Orbison's biography published in a CD box set: " Orbison was the master of compression.

Waits wrote the following introduction for the Tompkins Square compilation People Take Warning – Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs, 1913 – 1938:

She wrote the foreword to his collection Death: The High Cost of Living ; he in turn wrote the introduction to Comic Book Tattoo.

King wrote an introduction for a new edition of the book to mark the centenary of William Golding's birth in 2011.

Author Jack Higgins wrote the foreword and US-French radio-operator, Jean-Claude Guiet, who had accompanied her on the mission in the Limousin, wrote the introduction.