Nearly two decades after the final strip of Calvin and Hobbes marked creator Bill Watterson’s retirement, the beloved cartoonist made a secret return to the newspaper comics page. Stephan Pastis, the cartoonist behind the syndicated strip Pearls Before Swine , revealed on Saturday that Watterson had collaborated with him on several Pearls installments that were published over the past week. Pastis explained in his blog that the collaboration was sparked by a strip he published last year in which he mocked his own drawing abilities with a joke about picking up women by pretending to be the Calvin and […]

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