{"id":42422,"date":"2014-06-06T23:13:56","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T05:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/06\/bill-watterson-returns-to-the-comics-pages.html"},"modified":"2014-06-07T10:20:54","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T16:20:54","slug":"bill-watterson-returns-to-the-comics-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/06\/bill-watterson-returns-to-the-comics-pages.html","title":{"rendered":"Bill Watterson returns to the comics pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Briefly, ever so briefly, but &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, wow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115199064706997479815'>James D.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ho. Lee. Crap! \u00a0This is almost unbelievable, but so incredible! \u00a0\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/ElTmdqZL4ihVOegzqGUlVBWzRbM0nwiXCATnaHN_3kFl-SRVcAEuoq0POXZ8ud44uCPx7aE-_0mCAgS6YjZFRFJWW6djZ7IjtQUHySc=w120-h120' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/bit.ly\/1kKFAWX'>Ever Wished That Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson Would Return to the Comics Page?  Well, He Just Did.<\/a><br \/>\n                                                Bill Watterson is the Bigfoot of cartooning. He is legendary. He is reclusive. And like Bigfoot, there is really only one photo of him in existence.\u00a0 Few in the cartooning world have ever spoken to&#8230;\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Ji6FFePiCkK' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Briefly, ever so briefly, but &#8230; And, yes, wow. Reshared post from +James D. Ho. Lee. Crap! \u00a0This is almost unbelievable, but so incredible! \u00a0\ufeff Ever Wished That Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson Would Return to the Comics Page? Well, He Just Did. Bill Watterson is the Bigfoot of cartooning. He is legendary. He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/06\/bill-watterson-returns-to-the-comics-pages.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bill Watterson returns to the comics pages&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,11],"tags":[586],"class_list":["post-42422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-comics","tag-pluspost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4936,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/01\/why_i_didnt_sel.html","url_meta":{"origin":42422,"position":0},"title":"Why I didn&#8217;t select him as a dinner guest","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 1-Dec-03 10:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting -- and vaguely disturbing -- little article about whatever happened to Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson. 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