House of Parlance Blog

Or “Calvin on Charlie” if you will. Or “Hobbes on Snoopy”.

It’s been a very long time since we heard anything from Bill Watterson. He has done a wonderful job of falling off the map. He has resurfaced to write of review of a biography about Charles Schulz. Bill has always given full credit to the influence that “Peanuts” had on his work. His review of the book “Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography” by David Michaelis doesn’t tell use much about Watterson but indeed tells interesting stories about poor Charles. The personal connection to Lucy and Schroeder really turned my head around and I’ll never read a Peanuts strip the same way again.

Read his review at the Wall Street Journal