Before Calvin and Hobbes, Watterson was a political cartoonist and grocery ad designer.ġ9. Calvin's teacher Miss Wormwood was named after the apprentice devil in The Screwtape Letters by C.S. In 2014, when the library's curator Jenny Robb interviewed Watterson about his decision to house his work there, he explained, 'The library helps counteract the art world's condescension to the 'low art' of cartoons, and it protects work that would otherwise be scattered or lost.'ġ7. The museum collection includes more than 300,000 original strips from everybody who’s anybody in the newspaper comics world, plus 45,000 books, 29,000 comic books and 2,400 boxes of manuscript material, correspondence and other personal papers from artists.

23, 2013 photo, Jenny Robb holds a 'Calvin and Hobbes' comic by cartoonist Bill Watterson at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum in Columbus, Ohio. In the introduction to The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, he reminisces: Cartoons captured Watterson's curiosity from an early age. Players must make up the rules as they go and cannot use the same rule twice.ĥ. Calvin was not very good at sports, but he did invent the game Calvinball. One thing he did have in common with them was a passion for sledding.¹Ĥ. As a child, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes was quiet and mild-mannered - markedly different from his rambunctious characters. Watterson spent most of his childhood in Chagrin Falls, a suburb in Ohio.¹ģ. William Boyd Watterson II was born on Jin Washington, D.C.¹Ģ. To mark Watterson's birthday, here are 60 facts you may not know about him.ġ. His iconic cartoon Calvin and Hobbes has entertained generations of readers, bringing the witty adventures and philosophical musings of a six-year-old boy and his stuffed tiger to newspapers around the world.

Jmarked the 60th birthday of legendary comic creator Bill Watterson.

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