Thanks to a booklisting posted by Simon & Schuster, the information is out: legendary cartoonist Bill Watterson has collaborated with legendary caricature artist John Kascht on The Mysteries, an illustrated “fable for grown-ups.”
According to the web site, the 72-page illustrated storybook is scheduled for launch on October 10th, 2023. The book shall be printed by Andrews McMeel Publishing and distributed by Simon & Schuster.
The Mysteries
Here’s the outline of The Mysteries from the web site:
“From Bill Watterson, bestselling creator of the beloved caricature Calvin and Hobbes, and John Kascht, considered one of America’s most famed caricaturists, comes a mysterious and superbly illustrated fable about what lies past human understanding.
“In a fable for grown-ups by cartoonist Bill Watterson, a long-ago kingdom is bothered with unexplainable calamities. Hoping to finish the torment, the king dispatches his knights to find the supply of the mysterious occasions. Years later, a single battered knight returns.
“For the book’s illustrations, 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—a mysterious process in its own right.”
About the collaborators
Watterson is greatest recognized for his seminal caricature Calvin and Hobbes, which ran from November 1985 via the ultimate day of December 1995. The title stays among the many greatest sequential graphic narrative work to have ever been printed.
In 2014, Watterson was named the named the Grand Prix winner on the Angoulême comics pageant. While he did draw a poster for Angoulême 2015, that was the extent of his direct participation.
Meanwhile, Kascht’s work has appeared in a laundry record of periodicals that reads like a “who’s who” of revered publications, together with Rolling Stone, MAD Magazine, The New Yorker, and The Wall Street Journal. Two dozen of his works are displayed on the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.
Arriving in October 2023
Will you be trying out The Mysteries when it arrives in October?
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Thanks to Steve Lieber for Tweeting about this exciting news yesterday afternoon.
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