The Mysteries

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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. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.

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. Somewhere on the outskirts of Cleveland, their creator is probably irked that his old characters are pouncing into all these reviews of this other endeavor.These are stories about difficult and not infrequently destructive characters who are lost in their own worlds.

Herriman, born in the nineteenth century in New Orleans to a mixed-race family, often presented himself, in his adult life, as Greek. There's no difficult language or frightening images, there's nothing worse than say, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. This collaboration was very unlikely to succeed because their aesthetics are vastly different—yet they hammered away at the idea for years and finally produced this landmark volume.I've now read this book a couple dozen times and those six words are sure to be quoted over and over again in coming years.