The Mysteries

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think of The Mysteries as a one-of-a-kind experience from Bill Watterson and John Kascht that you can pick off of your shelf whenever in need of wonder and mystery.

I kept saying, “If Bill Watterson is putting this out after ALL these YEARS…He must have something VERY important to say, and I want to know what that is! It’s about how the fear of the unknown can hold us back, and, simultaneously, about how a lack of respect for the limits of our understanding can bring catastrophe.This is why you won’t find a plot summary or anything remotely spoilery here—you could read my synopsis in the same amount of time it’d take to read the book itself. If you want something equally beautiful but infinitely deeper, try Shaun Tan's The Arrival - now that's a masterpiece.

Bill Watterson created the newspaper comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, one of the most iconic and memorable comic strips of our time. Almost 30 years after Bill Watterson's last Calvin and Hobbes strip, we get this strange work of art. That’s the one thing we know for sure in this world,” Calvin says to Hobbes in the first panel of a two-panel strip that ran in more than two thousand newspapers on Monday, July 17, 1995.Here’s another story, kindred to “The Mysteries,” about a knight who journeys into a dark and unknown wood. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. I can't say I knew what I was getting from the description or the art preview, but I had prepared myself for something different than the expected material of the past. We turn to the familiar to blot out the mysterious, but our life (and our society) begins and ends with mysteries that we cannot comprehend. In his prime with Calvin and Hobbes, Watterson was famous for sometimes creating very wordy comic strips (although he also was a master of almost wordless comic strips).