A collection of more and less known facts about Calvin and Hobbes, the characters, the comic, the phenomenon.
The (on slashdot.org) much used phrase “I , you insensitive clod!” originates from a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip dated 1986-02-14.
They have 8 different sofa’s in Calvin’s house.
After college Bill Watterson got a job as political cartoonist by the Cincinnati Post.
He was fired within a couple of months.
Susie is left-handed.
Calvin sometimes wears a watch.
The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes contains the only strip ever without a drawing of Calvin, Hobbes, Susie, Dad, or Mom.
It also holds one of only two single-panel Sunday Strips ever.
In the early strips, hobbes has spots on the palm of his hand but in the later strips he doesn’t
A one-time occurence – Hobbes gives Calvin a sloppy kiss.
Susie Derkins’ last name come from the nickname of the Bill’s wife’s family dog.
Susie was the kind of girl that Bill liked when he was a kid.
David Spade sports a Calvin tattoo.
Actor Sean Penn was filmed applying the tattoo.
Bill refused to merchandise his creation on the grounds that pasting Calvin and Hobbes images on commercially-sold coffee mugs, stickers and t-shirts would devalue the characters and their personalities.
This also explains his refusal to allow the strip to become an animated series.
Calvin is named for a sixteenth-centurn theologian who believed in predestination
Hobbes is named after a seventeenth-century philosphoer with a dim view of human nature.
Watterson was awarded the National Cartoonist Society Humor Comic Strip Award for 1988
He had previously been awarded their Reuben Award for 1986.
Bill Watterson designed grocery advertisements for four years prior to working on Calvin and Hobbes.
He was also a political cartoonist before he started drawing Calvin and Hobbes
Calvin and Hobbes was first published on November 18, 1985.
The last strip of Calvin and Hobbes was published on December 31, 1995
Bill’s parents are named Kathryn and James G. Watterson
Bill also have a younger brother named Tom
Bill’s is William B. “Bill” Watterson II
He was born in Washington D.C. July 5, 1958