A collection of more and less known facts about Calvin and Hobbes, the characters, the comic, the phenomenon.
After college Bill Watterson got a job as political cartoonist by the Cincinnati Post. He was fired within a couple of months. |
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Susie is left-handed. Calvin sometimes wears a watch. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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David Spade sports a Calvin tattoo. Actor Sean Penn was filmed applying the tattoo. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Watterson was awarded the National Cartoonist Society Humor Comic Strip Award for 1988 He had previously been awarded their Reuben Award for 1986. |
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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 |
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Calvin and Hobbes was first published on November 18, 1985. The last strip of Calvin and Hobbes was published on December 31, 1995 |
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Bill's parents are named Kathryn and James G. Watterson Bill also have a younger brother named Tom |
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Bill's is William B. "Bill" Watterson II He was born in Washington D.C. July 5, 1958 |