Hobbes certainly changed in appearance over the strip's run. At the beginning of the strip's run, Hobbes was slightly shorter, and his tufts of fur were less defined and shorter. His eyes also had more of a round shape, as opposed to the oval shape of later years. The most notable change, however, were the pads on Hobbes' hands.
Hobbes began looking like his current self around mid In earlier years, Bill Watterson drew the pads on Hobbes' hands as a reminder that they were really paws, but later removed them as he found them to be visually distracting. From Calvin 's point of view, Hobbes is a walking, talking, bipedal tiger, much larger and often much stronger than Calvin and full of his own attitudes and ideas. But when the perspective shifts to any other character, readers see merely a little stuffed tiger.
This is, of course, an odd dichotomy and leaves in question the nature of Hobbes' reality. Many readers assume that Hobbes is either a product of Calvin's imagination, or a doll that comes to life when Calvin is the only one around. However, both of these theories are incorrect. As Watterson explains in the Tenth Anniversary Book , "Hobbes is more about the subjective nature of reality than dolls coming to life": thus there is no concrete definition of Hobbes' reality.
Watterson explained: "Calvin sees Hobbes one way, and everyone else sees Hobbes another way. The so-called 'gimmick' of Hobbes is the juxtaposition of Calvin and Hobbes' reality and everyone else's, with the two rarely agreeing. Hobbes is supposed to represent how imaginative kids see their stuffed animals. There has been more than one instance of Hobbes appearing the way Calvin sees him around another person.
One instance is when Calvin loses Hobbes in the first Calvin and Hobbes book, Hobbes is seen as a tiger in the company of Susie Derkins.
However, she was facing the other way when it occurred see picture on right. In a Sunday strip from the same book, the car stops going and Calvin and Hobbes beep the horn hoping for someone to come help.
Hobbes is seen as a tiger when Calvin's mother is there, but she isn't looking. There is one strip when Calvin is fighting with Hobbes' and we see Susie's perspective in one panel, but some people think it was Calvin seeing him transform back into his stuffed animal form and expressing confusion.
At one point, Calvin stated that Hobbes was steering, however since Susie was there, the imagination became to 'realism', and Hobbes was riding in the back as a stuffed tiger, displaying a hint about whether Hobbes is real or not. However, it is possible that Calvin took the helm at the last second because Hobbes did a poor job of steering. The panel format, however, makes this impossible to confirm or deny. Sometimes Hobbes breaks the fourth wall and speaks directly to the reader, such as when Calvin tries to parachute from his house's roof "His mom's going to have a fit about those rose bushes".
On other occasions, it is difficult to imagine how the "stuffed toy" interpretation of Hobbes is consistent with what the characters see.
For example, he "assists" Calvin's attempt to become a Houdini-style escape artist by tying Calvin to a chair. Calvin, however, cannot escape, and his irritated father must undo the knots, all the while asking Calvin how he could do this to himself. In a rare interview, Watterson explained his approach to this situation:. In response to the journalist's assumption that Hobbes was a figment of Calvin's imagination, Watterson responded,.
In another story, Susie Derkins has to stay at Calvin's house after school because her parents are working late. Calvin only finds this out on the way home; when Calvin and Susie reach the house, Hobbes is waiting by the door for Susie and wearing a tie.
But the question is, how is Hobbes wearing the tie? Another instance of ambiguity is a strip in which Calvin imagines Hobbes and himself on the front page of many newspapers after winning a contest. Although these newspapers are clearly a figment of Calvin's imagination, Hobbes appears in "stuffed" form. Calvin has taken photographs of Hobbes, but on each occasion, when adults see the pictures, Hobbes appears as a stuffed toy.
Also Hobbes pounces on Calvin when he arrives home from school. The issue remains about how Calvin would hurt himself as such. One probable theory as to Hobbes' existence springs from the first two strips. In these strips, immediately after Calvin caught Hobbes he takes him home and asks his father what to do with him, to which his father replies "take it home and stuff it. An unexpected error has occurred with your sign up.
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The iconic strip by Bill Watterson '80 first published 30 years ago today. This is one of the rare photos of Watterson in public circulation.
Source: Mental Floss. Source: Boston Globe and Salon. What's your favorite winter weekend activity? Here's one of ours: pic. He was also worried that he might lose the comic, having originally signed away a majority of his rights to get the comic syndicated.
In a interview with the Los Angeles Times , he said, " But it seems that with a lot of the marketing stuff, the incentive is just to cash in. It's not understanding what makes the strip work. In , " Exploring Calvin and Hobbes, " an extensive interview with Watterson, was published. USPostageStampDay stamp calvinandhobbes lol funny comics pic. Source: The Plain Dealer. Source: Washington Post. Source: Time. For you.
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