Barry has linked to an article about how Bill Watterson currently spends his days in Ohio.

One of my favorite speculations from that piece:

An industry source who wishes to remain anonymous says Watterson paints oil-on-canvas landscapes, but sets fire to each as soon as it’s finished. Supposedly, he was told that the first 500 paintings an artist creates are just practice.

Barry has also recently linked to Watterson’s The Cheapening of Comics, the infamous speech he gave at the Festival of Cartoon Art, Ohio State University, October 27, 1989.

And, actually, the recent Watterson rumor that I’ve heard and hope most to be true is the releasing of a Calvin & Hobbes collection on the order of The
Complete Farside.