Thanks, Bob. We are selling this at Barnes and Noble, just want to add that this is a very big book. A very heavy book. Very heavy. When you people buy this, remember the average skinny, untanned bespectacled bookstore gent or lass who has to lug these around for your benefit. They are used to light, gentle objects. No one told them they'd be lugging rocks at a quarry.
Both Bill Watterson and Gary Larson of The Far Side were geniuses. This book is probably eminently worth reading. I read a previous one by Watterson and it was very informative and generally terrific.
And it isn't necessarily tragic that these two are well short of retirement age but no longer draw. Like shooting stars they had their moment, and now they're evidently burnt out. But they both left behind a rich corpus.
Another comic book genius is R. Crumb -- and his current book The R. Crumb Handbook is a kind of autobiography that was solidly worth the 25 bucks.
