The Mysteries

by Bill Watterson

John Kascht (Illustrator) and Bill Watterson and John Kascht (Illustrator)

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From Bill Watterson, bestselling creator of the beloved comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, and John Kascht, one of America’s most renowned caricaturists, comes a mysterious and beautifully illustrated fable about what lies beyond human understanding. 


In a fable for grown-ups by cartoonist Bill Watterson, a long-ago kingdom is afflicted with unexplainable calamities. Hoping to end the torment, the king dispatches his knights to discover the source of the mysterious events. 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. 

With The Mysteries, Watterson and Kascht share the fascinating genesis of their extraordinary collaboration in a video that can be viewed on Andrews McMeel Publishing's YouTube page. 
  • ISBN10 1524884944
  • ISBN13 9781524884949
  • Publish Date 10 October 2023
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Andrews McMeel Publishing
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 72
  • Language English