The Book Studio with Nevin Martell

You can love the comic strip "Calvin & Hobbes" without spending years and years trying to figure out makes its elusive creator tick.

But then you wouldn't be Nevin Martell, whose book "Looking for Calvin & Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip" is the story of his own search for the artist. (Editor's Note: Saying this title correctly, more than once, was one of the biggest challenges of my interviewing career thus far -- I simply couldn't wrap my tongue around it! Martell was extremely good-natured about the multiple takes involved.)

I like Martell's story, because it's one that asks us all what we would do if we could follow an obsession and because as Anne Morrow Lindbegh said "It's the journey, not the arrival, that matters." "Looking for Calvin & Hobbes" is about the author's journey -- and along the way, he learns all kinds of things about Watterson, the comic strip, and himself.

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