![]() ![]() ![]() But when Watterson was six, they moved to Chagrin Falls, Ohio (about 24 miles east of Cleveland). in 1958 and lived in Alexandria, Virginia with his mother and father, who was a patent attorney. So how did it come together? Why did it last only a decade? And what has Watterson been up to in the over two decades since he retired at the young age of just 38? As the first appearance of this legendary comic strip shows, Calvin sets a trap for a tiger using a tuna sandwich because “tigers will do ANYTHING for a tuna fish sandwich.” Sure enough, hanging by one foot and munching on the sandwich, Calvin’s freshly caught tiger confirms this, “We’re kind of stupid that way.”Īlmost exactly ten years later, the comic’s elusive creator, Bill Watterson, abruptly called it quits, despite the comic’s extreme popularity. It was on November 18, 1985, when Calvin met Hobbes. Image from the cover of Exploring Calvin and Hobbes – An Exhibition Catalogue ![]()
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