Where has he been?

By the end of 10 years, I’d said pretty much everything I had come there to say.

It’s always better to leave the party early. If I had rolled along with the strip’s popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now “grieving” for “Calvin and Hobbes” would be wishing me dead and cursing newspapers for running tedious, ancient strips like mine instead of acquiring fresher, livelier talent. And I’d be agreeing with them.

I think some of the reason “Calvin and Hobbes” still finds an audience today is because I chose not to run the wheels off it.

https://www.cleveland.com/living/2010/02/bill_watterson_creator_of_belo.html

It seemed a gesture of respect and gratitude toward my characters to leave them at top form. I like to think that, now that I’m not recording everything they do, Calvin and Hobbes are out there having an even better time

As much as I wish there were more C&H, I think Watterson made the right decision.