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Creator Bill Watterson had a degree in social science and was hired as a cartoonist/drawer on Cincinnatti Post. Up until his
breakthrough with Calvin and Hobbes he also worked within advertising.
Actually, he became a marketer after he had been forced to leave the Cincinatti. Next to his job, he continued to suggest
his own comic-strip ideas to major publish house, all of which refused.
United Feautures got curious when they saw the frontrunner of C&H and agreed to let Bill show some his works. However,
when the version as general public know of it was presented they lost interest.
Finally, he found an agent who was willing to take on his story; Universal. In 1985, the first strips were included in
a few newspapers widely read at the time.
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