Bill Watterson

The next historically would be Doonesbury, but I'm going to skip thematically. We are moving into comics which have existed while I was alive, so why not. Bill Watterson's Calvin is a long way away from Charles Shultz's Charlie Brown, but they are still both children (sort of).

I often wonder what Mr. Watterson is like--I mean he kind of burst on the scene with Calvin and Hobbes, rode it to the top, then bowed out. He puts in a fair amount of commentary in his strips on living small and environmentally; but then Calvin is such a terror.