John Kascht is regarded as one of America's most important and highly regarded caricature artists. A master of the form, he has caricatured thousands of famous faces for magazines, newspapers and Broadway marquees. His work is collected by the National Portrait Gallery.

"Bill Watterson's return to print, after nearly three decades, comes in the form of a fable called "The Mysteries," which shares with his famous comic strip a sense of enchantment." (The New Yorker)

"The Mysteries more than earns a place alongside your Calvin and Hobbes collections." (Yahoo! Entertainment)

"The Mysteries is a book that dares you to unravel it. ...think of The Mysteries as a one-of-a-kind experience from Bill Watterson and John Kascht that you can pick off of your shelf whenever in need of wonder and mystery." (Screenrant)

"The illustrations are remarkable, and the story, about mysteries, is a powerful and gorgeous mystery itself." (Boing Boing)

"A darkly foreboding illustrated fable."
(The New York Times)

"Its wisdom is grand and chilly" (The New York Review of Books)