"A complete collection of ""Calvin and Hobbes"" strips, in three hardcover volumes totaling 1440 pages, was released on October 4, 2005, by Andrews McMeel Publishing. It includes color prints of the art used on paperback covers, the treasuries' extra illustrated stories and poems, and a new introduction by Bill Watterson in which he talks about his inspirations and his story leading up to the publication of the strip. The alternate 1985 strip is still omitted, and two other strips (January 7, 1987, and November 25, 1988) have altered dialogue. A four-volume paperback version was released November 13, 2012. To celebrate"
"at their own risk. He added that he was not going to apologize for drawing a popular feature. Watterson announced the end of ""Calvin and Hobbes"" on November 9, 1995, with the following letter to newspaper editors: The last strip of ""Calvin and Hobbes"" was published on December 31, 1995. Since the conclusion of ""Calvin and Hobbes"", Watterson has taken up painting, at one point drawing landscapes of the woods with his father. He has kept away from the public eye and has given no indication of resuming the strip, creating new works based on the strip's characters, or embarking"
"the love/hate relationship between him and his classmate Susie Derkins. Hobbes' dual nature is a defining motif for the strip: to Calvin, Hobbes is a living anthropomorphic tiger; all the other characters see Hobbes as an inanimate stuffed toy. Though the series does not mention specific political figures or current events, it does explore broad issues like environmentalism, public education, philosophical quandaries, and the flaws of opinion polls. At the height of its popularity, ""Calvin and Hobbes"" was featured in over 2,400 newspapers worldwide. In 2010, reruns of the strip appeared in more than 50 countries, and nearly 45 million"
"the strip, was published in 2012. ""Calvin and Hobbes"" strips were again exhibited at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at Ohio State University in 2014, in an exhibition entitled ""Exploring Calvin and Hobbes"". An exhibition catalog by the same title, which also contained an interview with Watterson conducted by Jenny Robb, the curator of the museum, was published by Andrews McMeel in 2015. Years after its original newspaper run, ""Calvin and Hobbes"" has continued to exert influence in entertainment, art, and fandom. In television, Calvin and Hobbes are depicted in stop motion animation in the 2006 ""Robot Chicken"""
"he wanted to within the medium, he announced his intention to work on future projects at a slower pace with fewer artistic compromises. The final strip ran on Sunday, December 31, 1995. It depicted Calvin and Hobbes outside in freshly fallen snow, reveling in the wonder and excitement of the winter scene. ""It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... Let's go exploring!"" Calvin exclaims as they zoom off over the snowy hills on their sled, leaving, according to one critic ten years later, ""a hole in the comics page that no strip has been able to fill."" Syndicated comics were"
"Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes ""Teaching with"" Calvin and Hobbes is an American children's textbook published in 1993. As a rare piece of officially licensed ""Calvin and Hobbes"" merchandise, it is a highly valued collectible. Written by a speech-language pathologist and a learning disabilities educator, ""Teaching with"" Calvin and Hobbes is a language textbook for elementary and intermediate-level students. Jan Roebken created the cover and additional interior illustrations. The book reprints fifty-seven ""Calvin and Hobbes"" comic strips, organized into five lesson units. Each unit begins with a series of comic strips that form a story. The five units are: In"
"Steve Lavigne Steve Lavigne (born September 22, 1962) is an American comic book illustrator best known for his lettering and coloring on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles title for Mirage Studios. He is the creator of Cudley the Cowlick, Sgt. Bananas, and Stump and Sling. Lavigne attended Westbrook High School in Westbrook, Maine with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman. He inked the backup story in the 1989 collected Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Lavigne, along with fellow Mirage Studios artist Ryan Brown, illustrated the artwork seen on the vast majority of officially licensed Turtles merchandise. The"
"earliest strips demonstrate a remarkable consistency with the latest. Watterson introduced all the major characters within the first three weeks, and made no changes to the central cast over the next 10 years. By April 5, 1987, Watterson was featured in an article in ""The Los Angeles Times"". ""Calvin and Hobbes"" earned Watterson the Reuben Award from the National Cartoonists Society in the Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year category, first in 1986 and again in 1988. He was nominated another time in 1992. The Society awarded him the Humor Comic Strip Award for 1988. ""Calvin and Hobbes"" has also won"
"ceiling of his dorm room. He also contributed cartoons to the college newspaper, some of which included the original ""Spaceman Spiff"" cartoons. Later, when Watterson was creating names for the characters in his comic strip, he decided on Calvin (after the Protestant reformer John Calvin) and Hobbes (after the social philosopher Thomas Hobbes), allegedly as a ""tip of the hat"" to Kenyon's political science department. In ""The Complete Calvin and Hobbes"", Watterson stated that Calvin was named for ""a 16th-century theologian who believed in predestination,"" and Hobbes for ""a 17th-century philosopher with a dim view of human nature."" Watterson wrote"
"cartoonists have complained about this, with ""Pogo"" ending in 1975 as a form of protest from its creators against the practice. Since then ""Calvin and Hobbes"" creator Bill Watterson has written extensively on the issue, arguing that size reduction and dropped panels reduce both the potential and freedom of a cartoonist. After a lengthy battle with his syndicator, Watterson won the privilege of making half page-sized Sunday strips where he could arrange the panels any way he liked. Many newspaper publishers and a few cartoonists objected to this, and some papers continued to print ""Calvin and Hobbes"" at small sizes."
"Bill Watterson, the creator of ""Calvin and Hobbes"", to do a week-long story line in which a second-grade girl named ""Libby"" wrote a few of Pastis's cartoon frames for him. After the strips were published, Pastis revealed that the artwork for three of the strips was in fact drawn by Watterson. In the last cartoon of the sequence, Libby explains to Pastis that she would not continue drawing comic strips, saying that ""There's a magical world out there,"" a reference to the words spoken by Calvin in the final strip of ""Calvin and Hobbes"". Pastis's first treasury, ""Sgt. Piggy's Lonely"
"said the child cast as Barnaby looked more like the cartoon Barnaby than any real child he ever expected to see, Producer—Barney Josephson; Script--Jerome Chodorov; O'Malley--J. M. Kerrigan; Barnaby--Thomas Wm. Hamilton; Jane—Iris Mann; McSnoyd--Royal Dano All by Philip Nel Crockett Johnson Crockett Johnson (October 20, 1906 – July 11, 1975) was the pen name of the American cartoonist and children's book illustrator David Johnson Leisk. He is best known for the comic strip ""Barnaby"" (1942–1952) and the ""Harold"" series of books beginning with ""Harold and the Purple Crayon"". From 1965 until his death Johnson created over a hundred paintings relating"
"some well-earned financial security."" While bearing Watterson's signature and drawing style, as well as featuring characters from both ""Calvin and Hobbes"" and Breathed's ""Bloom County"", it is unclear whether Watterson had any input into these cartoons or not. A number of artists and cartoonists have created works portraying Calvin as a teenager or an adult; the concept has also inspired writers. In 2011, a comic strip appeared by cartoonists Dan and Tom Heyerman called ""Hobbes and Bacon"". The strip depicts Calvin as an adult, married to Susie Derkins, with a young daughter named after philosopher Francis Bacon, to whom Calvin"
"own commentary for the exhibition catalog, which was later published by Andrews McMeel as ""Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985–1995"". Since the discontinuation of ""Calvin and Hobbes"", individual strips have been licensed for reprint in schoolbooks, including the Christian homeschooling book ""The Fallacy Detective"" in 2002, and the university-level philosophy reader ""Open Questions: Readings for Critical Thinking and Writing"" in 2005; in the latter, the ethical views of Watterson and his characters Calvin and Hobbes are discussed in relation to the views of professional philosophers. Since 2009, Twitter users have indicated that ""Calvin and Hobbes"" strips have appeared in textbooks"
"drawing ""Calvin and Hobbes"". Watterson was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, whose suburban Midwestern United States setting was part of the inspiration for ""Calvin and Hobbes"". Watterson was born in Washington, D.C., where his father James G. Watterson (1932–2016) worked as a patent attorney. The family relocated to Chagrin Falls, Ohio in 1965 when Watterson was six because his mother Kathryn wanted to be closer to her family and felt that the small town was a good place to raise children. Watterson drew his first cartoon at age eight, and spent much time in"
"as Hobbes would not be socially acceptable. Political scientist James Q. Wilson, in a paean to ""Calvin and Hobbes"" upon Watterson's decision to end the strip in 1995, characterized it as ""our only popular explication of the moral philosophy of Aristotle."" Alisa White Coleman analyzed the strip's underlying messages concerning ethics and values in ""'Calvin and Hobbes': A Critique of Society's Values,"" published in the ""Journal of Mass Media Ethics"" in 2000. A collection of original Sunday strips was exhibited at Ohio State University's Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum in 2001. Watterson himself selected the strips and provided his"
"Crockett Johnson Crockett Johnson (October 20, 1906 – July 11, 1975) was the pen name of the American cartoonist and children's book illustrator David Johnson Leisk. He is best known for the comic strip ""Barnaby"" (1942–1952) and the ""Harold"" series of books beginning with ""Harold and the Purple Crayon"". From 1965 until his death Johnson created over a hundred paintings relating to mathematics and mathematical physics. Eighty of these are found in the collections of the National Museum of American History. Born in New York City, Johnson grew up in Corona, Queens, New York, attended PS 16 and Newtown High"
"album art for his brother's band, calendars, clothing graphics, educational books, magazine covers, posters, and post cards. Watterson has said that he works for personal fulfillment. As he told the graduating class of 1990 at Kenyon College, ""It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves."" ""Calvin and Hobbes"" was first published on November 18, 1985. In ""Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book"", he wrote that his influences included Charles Schulz's ""Peanuts"", Walt Kelly's ""Pogo"", and George Herriman's ""Krazy Kat"". Watterson wrote the introduction to the first volume of ""The Komplete Kolor Krazy Kat"". Watterson's"
"recognize him as a human infant—with the entire strip, including the rabbit, drawn in a realistic style ""à la"" ""Rex Morgan, M.D."". Miss Wormwood is Calvin's schoolteacher. Watterson commented that a few astute fans of the strip have correctly asked him if Miss Wormwood was named after the apprentice demon in C. S. Lewis' ""The Screwtape Letters"". She usually wears polka-dotted dresses, and serves as a foil to Calvin's mischief. Despite the changing seasons and recurring holidays, the characters in ""Calvin and Hobbes"" do not age, and so Calvin and Susie return to Miss Wormwood's first-grade class every fall. Miss"
"most notably in """" (1994) and ""The Space Bar"" (1997), in which he designed all the characters. Cobb also co-wrote with his wife, Robin Love, one of the (1985–1987) ""Twilight Zone"" episodes. Among the most famous film props signed by Cobb are two of the swords he designed for the 1982 film ""Conan the Barbarian"" (the ""Father's Sword"" and the ""Atlantean Sword""). Cobb's original drawings of the swords are nowadays used, in cinema merchandising, to mass-produce and sell replicas. Ron Cobb Ron Cobb (born 1937) is an American cartoonist, artist, writer, film designer, and film director. By the age of"
"Hobbes strip from December 31, 1995. On November 5, 2014, a poster was unveiled, drawn by Watterson for the 2015 Angoulême International Comics Festival where he was awarded the Grand Prix in 2014. On April 1, 2016 for April Fools' Day, Berkeley Breathed posted on Facebook that Watterson had signed ""the franchise over to my 'administration'"". He then posted a comic with Calvin, Hobbes, and Opus all featured. The comic is signed by Watterson, though it remains to be seen how involved he actually was. Breathed posted another ""Calvin County"" strip featuring Calvin and Hobbes, also ""signed"" by Watterson on"
"However, although the visual possibilities of animation appealed Watterson, the idea of finding a voice for Calvin made him uncomfortable, as did the idea of working with a team of animators.. Ultimately, ""Calvin and Hobbes"" was never made into an animated series. Watterson later stated in ""The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book"" that he liked the fact that his strip was a ""low-tech, one-man operation,"" and that he took great pride in the fact that he drew every line and wrote every word on his own. Calls from major Hollywood figures interested in an adaptation of his work, including"
"between his brain and his mouth"", a ""little too intelligent for his age"", lacking in restraint and not yet having the experience to ""know the things that you shouldn't do."" The comic strip largely revolves around the Calvin's inner world, and his largely antagonistic experiences with those outside of it (fellow students, authority figures and his parents). From Calvin's point of view, Hobbes is an anthropomorphic tiger, much larger than Calvin and full of independent attitudes and ideas. When the perspective shifts to any other character, readers see merely a stuffed animal, usually seated at an off-kilter angle and blankly"
"staring into space. The true nature of the character is never resolved, instead as Watterson describes, a 'grown-up' version of reality is juxtaposed against Calvin's, with the reader left to ""decide which is truer"". Hobbes is named after the 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes, who held what Watterson describes as ""a dim view of human nature."" He typically exhibits a greater understanding of consequences than Calvin, although rarely intervenes in Calvin's activities beyond a few oblique warnings. The friendship between the two characters provides the core dynamic of the strip. Calvin's unnamed mother and father are typical middle-class parents. Calvin's father"
"C. H. Greenblatt C. H. (Carl Harvey) Greenblatt (born June 17, 1972) is an American screenwriter, producer, storyboard artist and voice actor. He has worked on the Nickelodeon series ""SpongeBob SquarePants"", and on the Cartoon Network series ""The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy"" and ""Evil Con Carne"". He is best known as the creator of ""Chowder"" for Cartoon Network and ""Harvey Beaks"" for Nickelodeon. He attended the University of Texas at Austin where he majored in advertising. He got his first job in the animation industry working as an additional storyboard artist for ""SpongeBob SquarePants"". In November 2007, Greenblatt"
"years, blonde with pigtails, carries out an independent life among a band of friends: the dogs Bobby and Rusty, the cats Puff and Inky, the bear Bruno. Pierre Probst Pierre Probst (1913 - April 12, 2007) was a French cartoonist. He was known for his creation of the ""Caroline"" character, a heroine for children books. Probst was born in Mulhouse, where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts. He did many jobs related to drawing, painting and photo-editing. During World War II, he was captured. Probst escaped and returned to Lyon and Paris. He died in Suresnes, aged 93. Since"
"Steve is currently appearing at comic cons throughout the USA, signing books and taking commission work. He does covers for TMNT/IDW comics as well. For more info you may visit his facebook page Shellback Artworks. Steve Lavigne Steve Lavigne (born September 22, 1962) is an American comic book illustrator best known for his lettering and coloring on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles title for Mirage Studios. He is the creator of Cudley the Cowlick, Sgt. Bananas, and Stump and Sling. Lavigne attended Westbrook High School in Westbrook, Maine with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman. He inked the backup"
"both artists, and Wenzel's brother Greg is a book writer and illustrator. David Wenzel David T. Wenzel (; born November 22, 1950) is an illustrator and children's book artist. He is best known for his graphic novel adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's ""The Hobbit"". Wenzel's first ambition had been to work for one of the big animation houses in California, but his early career path led him instead to work at an advertising agency and as a penciler in the mainstream comic book industry. From the mid-1970s to the early 1980s he worked on such Marvel Comics titles as ""Avengers"" and"
"David Wenzel David T. Wenzel (; born November 22, 1950) is an illustrator and children's book artist. He is best known for his graphic novel adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's ""The Hobbit"". Wenzel's first ambition had been to work for one of the big animation houses in California, but his early career path led him instead to work at an advertising agency and as a penciler in the mainstream comic book industry. From the mid-1970s to the early 1980s he worked on such Marvel Comics titles as ""Avengers"" and ""Savage Sword of Conan"". He penciled part of ""The Avengers"" story arc"
"Bob Powell Bob Powell (""né"" Stanley Robert Pawlowski; October 2, 1916 – December 1967) was an American comic book artist known for his work during the 1930–1940s Golden Age of comic books, including on the features ""Sheena, Queen of the Jungle"" and ""Mr. Mystic"". He received a belated credit in 1999 for co-writing the debut of the popular feature ""Blackhawk"". Powell also did the pencil art for the bubble gum trading card series ""Mars Attacks"". He officially changed his name to S. Robert Powell in 1943. Born in Buffalo, New York, Bob Powell in the 1930s moved to Manhattan, New"
"1997. These include 11 collections, which form a complete archive of the newspaper strips, except for a single daily strip from November 28, 1985. (The collections ""do"" contain a strip for this date, but it is not the same strip that appeared in some newspapers. Treasuries usually combine the two preceding collections with bonus material and include color reprints of Sunday comics.) Watterson included some new material in the treasuries. In ""The Essential Calvin and Hobbes"", which includes cartoons from the collections ""Calvin and Hobbes"" and ""Something Under the Bed Is Drooling"", the back cover features a scene of a"
"Randall Munroe Randall Patrick Munroe (born October 17, 1984) is an American cartoonist, author, engineer, scientific theorist, and the creator of the webcomic ""xkcd"". He and the webcomic have developed a large fanbase, and shortly after graduating from college, he became a professional webcomic artist. Munroe was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, the son of an engineer. He has two younger brothers. He was a fan of comic strips in newspapers from an early age, starting off with ""Calvin and Hobbes"". After graduating from the Chesterfield County Mathematics and Science High School at Clover Hill, a Renaissance Program in Midlothian, Virginia,"
"& Hues, Warner Bros. Animation, HBO, and others; notable titles included Ralph Bakshi's ""Cool World"", ""Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog"", and ""The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat"". Knight teaches art at The Colonnade Art Gallery and Studio in Pasadena, California. He is an animation archive volunteer for the International Animated Film Association. Milton Knight: Milton Knight: Ralph Bakshi: Milton Knight Milton Knight (born May 12, 1962) is an American cartoonist/animator, comic book artist and writer, painter, and storyboard/layout artist known for his Golden Age (1930s) cartooning style. At age two, Knight began to draw, paint and create comic books"