The Mysteries

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Shortly after Calvin and Hobbes ended, Watterson took up painting, spending time creating landscapes of Ohio woods with his father. The child’s drawings were a different style than Pastis’ normal work, and it was later revealed that Watterson had been the one behind them.

Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. In September, the Senator’s son, the New Jersey congressman Rob Menendez, introduced a resolution to create National Bruce Springsteen Day. Comic historian Richard West said he didn’t know if the 500 number was accurate, but “it’s not far from the truth; he’s destroyed many more paintings than he’s saved,” according to Martell’s book. Bob is someone who sings all the time,” Senator Robert Menendez’s wife, Nadine, told the Times in 2021.

What might Menendez, who denies any wrongdoing, have sung while he and his wife drove the Mercedes around with the top down? It sounded like fun and maybe something people wouldn’t expect, so I decided to give it a try,” Watterson told The Washington Post.

He studied a variety of artists, from the expressionist Willem de Kooning to the Italian Renaissance master Titian, according to Nevin Martell’s book Looking for Calvin and Hobbes. D. Salinger of the strips,” Watterson gives few interviews, rarely releases new artwork publicly, and made Time ’s list of most reclusive celebrities. But Watterson declined to publicly exhibit his work, telling Mental Floss: “I don’t paint ambitiously. I was reluctant to goof around with Richard’s creation, so I had trouble thinking of an approach that interested me until I got the idea of painting a portrait,” Watterson told The Washington Post. Federal prosecutors allege that Menendez, the Democrat who formerly chaired the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and his wife, who has also been indicted, received around half a million dollars in cash, along with some gold bars and a Mercedes-Benz C-300 convertible, in exchange for acting on behalf of the government of Egypt.Prosecutors say that after a visit to Egypt, in 2021, Menendez Googled “How much is one kilo of gold worth? In fact, Martell described a rumor that Watterson was such a perfectionist that he burned his first 500 paintings because he felt they weren’t up to his standards.