Calvin and Hobbes creator, Bill Watterson, is releasing a new book on October 10th, entitled The Mysteries – and it looks so different from anything he’s ever done before.
Watterson collaborated with caricature artist John Kascht, and this is a project that feels really quite special, dubbed a ‘fable for grown-ups’.
According to publisher Simon & Schuster, the book is a “mysterious and beautifully illustrated fable about what lies beyond human understanding.”
As a huge fan of Watterson, this is something that’s been on my radar for quite a while now, and seeing the images for the first time, I was pretty excited.
Let’s take a look at the official description:
In a fable for grown-ups by cartoonist Bill Watterson, a long-ago kingdom is afflicted with unexplainable calamities. Hoping to end the torment, the king dispatches his knights to discover the source of the mysterious events. Years later, a single battered knight returns.
Watterson and caricaturist John Kascht worked together for several years in unusually close collaboration. Both artists abandoned their past ways of working, inventing images together that neither could anticipate.
I personally cannot wait to read this book. I grew up reading Calvin & Hobbes, and knowing Watterson is a) producing new work and b) that it’s so drastically different really excites me.
Will you be getting a copy of The Mysteries? You can pre-order your copy via Amazon Prime right now.
Source: GeekTyrant
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