Creator of Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson, secretly stepped out of retirement recently leaving fans hopeful that the visionary comic creator has more up his sleeves.

Stephan Pastis, creator of the strip Pearls Before Swine, had a story going that a second grader named “Lib” had been his recent collaboration partner. Low and behold, that was a lie. He revealed on his blog that “Lib” was actually the Bill Watterson.

Surely a dream come true for Pastis, he said on his blog of Watterson, “He is legendary. He is reclusive. And like Bigfoot, there is really only one photo of him in existence.”

Watterson had a day job in advertisement that he came to loathe and that’s when the strip came to be. Calvin and Hobbes told the story of a little boy named Calvin and he explored his surroundings with his best friend – Hobbes. To him Hobbes was this life like tiger, to the rest of the world in the strip he was merely a stuffed animal. Calvin is one of the most celebrated strips and ran for a decade, from 1985 to 1995.

It was that year that Watterson decided to retire and on Nov. 9, 1995 to be exact he issued a statement to newspapers explaining his decision to step down, saying it was not “an easy decision” and calling his time doing the comic “an honor I’ll long be proud of.”

Those who revere Calvin and Hobbes as one of the best in comic strip history are ecstatic to learn of Watterson’s return after almost two decades, but there isn’t any word on if he’ll produce any new strips of his own soon.