I am eager to work at a more thoughtful pace, with fewer artistic compromises. My interests have shifted however, and I believe I've done what I can do within the constraints of daily deadlines and small panels. This was not a recent or an easy decision, and I leave with some sadness. I will be stopping Calvin and Hobbes at the end of the year. In 1995, Watterson sent a letter via his syndicate to all editors whose newspapers carried his strip: Watterson took two extended breaks from writing new strips, from May 6, 1991, to February 1, 1992, and from April 4 through December 31, 1994. Calvin and Hobbes has also won several more awards. The Society awarded him the Humor Comic Strip Award for 1988. Calvin and Hobbes twice 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.
By April 1, 1987, Watterson and his work were featured in an article in The Los Angeles Times. Before long the strip was in wide circulation outside the United States. Within a year of syndication, the strip was published in roughly 250 newspapers.
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The first strip was published on November 18, 1985, and the series quickly became a hit. Though United Feature rejected the new strip, Universal Press Syndicate eventually took it. Told that these characters were the strongest, Watterson began a new strip centered on them. United Feature Syndicate finally responded positively to one strip, which featured a side character (the main character's little brother) who had a stuffed tiger. He explored various strip ideas but all were rejected by the syndicates. Lee Salem, Watterson's editor at Universal, recalling his reaction after seeing Watterson's first submission Ĭalvin and Hobbes was conceived when Bill Watterson, working in an advertising job he detested, began devoting his spare time to cartooning, his true love. 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. Hobbes' dual nature is a defining motif for the strip: To Calvin, Hobbes is a live anthropomorphic tiger all the other characters see him as an inanimate stuffed toy. The strip depicts Calvin's flights of fantasy and his friendship with Hobbes, and also examines Calvin's relationships with family and classmates. Ĭalvin and Hobbes is set in the contemporary United States in an unspecified suburban area. Nearly 45 million copies of the 18 Calvin and Hobbes books have been sold. At the height of its popularity, Calvin and Hobbes was featured in over 2,400 newspapers worldwide as of January 2010, reruns of the strip still appear in more than 50 countries. The pair is named after John Calvin, a 16th-century French Reformation theologian, and Thomas Hobbes, a 17th-century English political philosopher, respectively. It follows the humorous antics of Calvin, a precocious, mischievous, and adventurous six-year-old boy, and Hobbes, his sardonic stuffed tiger. if my program works, I won't be able to write a sequel.The cover of Calvin and Hobbes, the first collection of comic strips, released in April 1987.Ĭalvin and Hobbes is a daily comic strip that was written and illustrated by American cartoonist Bill Watterson, and syndicated from November 18, 1985, to December 31, 1995.
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What problem will YOU help people solve? Their addiction to self-help books! My book is called "Shut Up And Stop Whining: How To Do Something With Your Life Besides Think About Yourself." You probably should wait for the advance before you buy anything.
Finally, you convince them that with your expert advice and encouragement, they can conquer their problem and be happy! Ingenious. Nobody wants to be responsible for his own situation. That's easy, because it's what people believe anyway. Next, you convince them that the problem is not their fault and that they're victims of larger forces. That's easy because advertising has already conditioned people to feel more insecure about their weight, looks, social status, sex appeal, and so on. First, you convince people there's something wrong with them. I'm writing a self-help book! There's a huge market for this stuff. Whatcha doin'? Getting rich! Really? Yep.
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