The brain behind Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson, is a little loner. When he retired in 1995, he has not really used his creativity to any new comic works, and he tries so hard to keep himself out of the limelight.

This year, that changes a but, he signed to create a title poster for Stripped, an investigative documentary on comic book business that launched earlier this year, and he discretely drew a handful of comic strips for Pearls Before Swine comic as a charity endeavor.

The fans was treated to a rare artwork by Watterson, it is a 15-panel megastrip for France 2015, Angouleme International Comics Festival. The comic book creatively captures fans and their love for comic strips, and Watterson decided not to use any dialogues in the strip to stress the general appeal of comics and their capability to crash the language gaps.

The 2014 Festival recognized Watterson with its highest award, The Grand Prix award, and in turn he would draw the poster for next year's event. This is the best posters the said festival has ever had, and offered how active the famous comic artist has been in 2014, fans hope his urge to draw wonderful comics is coming back and soon enough new creations from their favorite cartoonist.

Just recently, a work of Watterson, dated October 19, 1996 will be on sale. He gave the art to his co-cartoonist Brian Basset, who decided to sell the comic strip because of financial issues. The art piece will be up for auction on November 15-17, at Heritage Auctions' Vintage Comics and Comic Art Signature at US$65,000, at the start of the bid time. The comic strip is done with the use of watercolor and marker pens on thin Bristol board, with an image size of about 13x9 inches, with 18x15 inches overall matted area.