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What is the art style Bill Watterson used in Calvin and Hobbes?

Bill Watterson used dynamic, gestural strokes to ink Calvin and Hobbes. The Sunday comics, which covered more real estate on the page than the daily black-and-white comic strips, were enlivened by Watterson’s sprightly, expressive use of color in depicting the strip’s many seasonal woodland sceneries and the fantastical otherworlds of Calvin’s imagination.