A new film about the reclusive Bill Watterson's beloved comic strip is a DIY success story. By Chris O'Falt Calvin and Hobbes Magical World Cover - H 2012 Kickstarter had only gone live in April of ...

Sometimes celebrities hide in plain sight. It's a point often lost on entertainment journalists: Just because people don't want to give interviews doesn't make them hermits. Every so often, for ...

Dear Mr. Watterson can't really find anything insightful to say about the Sunday funnies-staple which it holds so dear. Dear Mr. Watterson is a documentary film about the impact of one of the most ...

It’s possible to love a work of art, a piece of music, even a comic strip, to the point of near speechlessness. That’s the problem with Joel Allen Schroeder’s heartfelt but largely inarticulate ...

Of American newspaper comic strips, few great ones have been so short-lived, and yet so enduring in the public, than "Calvin and Hobbes" by Bill Watterson. This film explores the strip, its special ...

“I’m not interested in the man himself,” says filmmaker Joel Allen Schroeder at the start of “Dear Mr. Watterson,” a tender and sincere ode the legacy of the reclusive creator of iconic comic strip ...

Whether delivering a tree house harangue as Dictator-for-Life of G.R.O.S.S. or getting sneak-jumped by his tiger sidekick, Calvin was our kid id. Operating on a combination of misunderstood genius and ...

DEAR MR. WATTERSON "Whoa, this iPad is super old." BILL WATTERSON wasn’t interviewed for the new documentary Dear Mr. Watterson. That’s really all you need to know about this friendly little film, ...

Watch a Trailer for the ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ Documentary ‘Dear Mr. […] Here’s the trailer for Dear Mr. Watterson, an upcoming documentary exploring the impact of Bill Watterson’s 1985-1995 comic strip ...

A loving and poignant profile of Bill Watterson, the publicity-shy artist whose beloved comic strip "Calvin & Hobbes" influenced a younger generation of cartoonists. The filmmakers talk to several ...

In Dear Mr. Watterson, fellow comic-strip artists, eerily adoring fans and apparently serious comic-strip critics pay tribute to Bill Watterson, an enigmatic man whose sly, dexterous mind and ...