“History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.”

American cartoonist

William Boyd Watterson II is an American cartoonist best known for creating Calvin and Hobbes. The strip ran from 1985 to 1995, and he later stepped back from public life. Watterson ended Calvin and Hobbes with a brief note to newspaper readers, saying he felt he had done all he could with the form. He is also known for his objections to comic syndication and licensing, and for his efforts to broaden the newspaper comic as an art form.