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Wow. That's pretty deep. Interesting connection.
That is a truly excellent piece and it fits quite well.
Watterson never stated that Calvin imagined that Hobbes was real. Ergo, #2 is not the answer.Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Bill Watterson explained in the Tenth Anniversary Book that the different appearences of Hobbes is because that's how he's seen by different people. Because of his imagination, Calvin sees Hobbes as real, while people like his parents and Susie see him as the stuffed toy he really is. There's nothing special or magical about Hobbes.
So #2.
Yes I was bored, but it clearly shows there IS no answer out of those 3 options.The so-called "gimmick" of my strip- the two versions of Hobbes- is sometimes misunderstood. I don't think of Hobbes as a doll that miraculously comes to life when Calvin's around. Neither do I think of Hobbes as the product of Calvin's imagination. The nature of Hobbes's reality dosn't interest me, and each story goes out of its way to avoid resolving the issue. Cavin sees Hobbes one way, and everyone else sees Hobbes another way. I show two versions of reality, and each makes complete sense to the participant who sees it. I think that's how life works. None of us sees the world in exactly the same way, and I just draw that literally in the strip. Hobbes is more about the subjective nature of reality then about dolls coming to life.
I'm sure that it has something to do with the G'N'R album "The Spaghetti Incident".Ace Pace wrote: Exactly like Hamster Huey, its up for us to decide what is it!
I prefer the Calvinball and Spaceman Spiff strips, as well as Stupendous Man.Lazy Raptor wrote:
I love the dinosaur strips, but nothing gets me more than the snowmen.
Not when in the very first few strips, he showed Calvin father finding a stuffed tiger on the road and giving it to Calvin as a gift.phongn wrote:Bill Watterson was intentionally vague as to Hobbes' status.
They're nowhere as common as the Spiff ones, that's for certain.PainRack wrote:Just how many detectives stories are there? I only read two so far
That's the point, though. Calvin sees Hobbes as a real tiger; everyone else seems him as a stuffed tiger. Which is he?PainRack wrote:Not when in the very first few strips, he showed Calvin father finding a stuffed tiger on the road and giving it to Calvin as a gift.phongn wrote:Bill Watterson was intentionally vague as to Hobbes' status.
Tracer Bullet? Those are funny, but he didn't do too many. The heavy shading made them time consuming.PainRack wrote:Just how many detectives stories are there? I only read two so far
I doub't it. Post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy. Not everything is a reference to something else, and it is incredibly easy to just make stuff up.Peregrin Toker wrote:I'm sure that it has something to do with the G'N'R album "The Spaghetti Incident".Ace Pace wrote: Exactly like Hamster Huey, its up for us to decide what is it!
Huh?PainRack wrote: Not when in the very first few strips, he showed Calvin father finding a stuffed tiger on the road and giving it to Calvin as a gift.
But then Watterson tosses in stories like the one where Hobbes was slicing up Calvin's mom's magazines and putting the letters in Calvin's mailbox. Calvin genuinely thought they were from someone else until his mom noticed that her magazines were being cut up. Then he got pissed off and confronted Hobbes about it.Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Again, I don't see why everyone's still saying it's so vague when you have the answere right up there in Ace Pace's post. It's just literally depicting two interpretations of reality. That's it.
Scarface? I thought he was called Two-Face?neoolong wrote:I'm telling you, it's like Batman's villain Scarface. A split personality personified in an inanimate object.
