Although the strip is somewhat ambiguous on the point, Hobbes's lively activites are almost certainly a product of Calvin's imagination, which makes the fact that Hobbes appears to be a good deal smarter and more mature than Calvin that much funnier. Hobbes comes to life when Calvin is alone with him, and is Calvin's best friend. And that care shows up in the consittent high quality of the resulting output.Īlmost everyone should be familiar with Calvin, a precocious, imaginative, unruly six or seven year old boy and his stuffed tiger Hobbes. Show More to the lengths of making sure that even the titles of his treasuries contribute some humor is, to me, illustrative of the care that Watterson takes in crafting his comic.
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