EXCLUSIVE: ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ creator Bill Watterson returns to the comics page — to offer a few ‘Pearls’ gems

“A number of years in the past, when Stephan did one among his strips that mocked his personal drawing capability and talked about my strip as compared, I believed it may be humorous for me to ghost ‘Pearls’ someday, simply to flip all of it on its head,” the goateed Watterson tells me, providing a transparent indication that he nonetheless follows the funnies. “It was only a foolish concept, and I didn’t know Stephan, so I by no means pursued it, and years glided by.”