Wonderful pair...
First Calvin and Hobbes strip.
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the first “Calvin and Hobbes” comic strip, the beloved cartoon series by Bill Watterson that featured the friendship between a young boy and a tiger, Julian Glum reports on ibtimes.com.
“Calvin and Hobbes” ran for about 10 years, ending Dec. 31, 1995, but not before it spawned a passionate readership and appeared in more than 2,400 newspapers, Glum wrote.
Watterson’s “Calvin and Hobbes” books have sold more than 30 million copies and resonated with readers all over the world, Glum added.
The first strip appeared Nov. 18, 1985. In it, Calvin catches Hobbes, whom readers later learn he sees as a real tiger and everyone else views as a stuffed animal. "I think that's how life works," Watterson once said.
"None of us sees the world exactly the same way, and I just draw that literally in the strip. Hobbes is more about the subjective nature of reality than about dolls coming to life," Watterson added, according to Glum.
For more, including several Calvin and Hobbes strips: http://www.ibtimes.com/calvin-hobbes-anniversary-2015-best-strips-bill-watterson-30-years-later-2186853
Photo: ibtimes.com.
Photo: ibtimes.com.
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