Six months into Bill Watterson's comic strip launch, I wrote him a letter. I asked probably what many people were asking: How do I do what you do? What's the path? And then I suggested we meet. (I had learned he lived nearby. How I got THAT information I don't know.) Anyway, it was 1986 and I was a kid and Calvin and Hobbes was the best new strip out there. I had no idea if he would write back, but in June 1986, he did. Declining my lunch offer, he then went into what he felt the key was in developing a good comic strip: character development. "Just practice, and have a lot of patience, " he wrote.
I am very fortunate to have become a professional cartoonist. By the next decade, I had sold cartoons, including a magazine cover and a book. By the 2000s, I was off and running, with lots of clients and I was on the board of the National Cartoonists Society, as well as teaching and lecturing about cartooning. A big change. Mr. Watterson was right. Patience and persistence were key.
I am selling this with an asking price of $3,000.00. If interested, you can contact me either here on the blog (that might take a while since I don't look at comments every day) or directly.
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