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It's gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy.

Bill Watterson

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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
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