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Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.

Bill Watterson

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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
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Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Washington
District of Columbia
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Words
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Anything
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