Bill Watterson-Calvin and Hobbes, Sabbatical, and Commercialization When starting off writing Calvin and Hobbes, Bill was advised not to quit his day job as a large number of comic strips never make it past a few years. The income for a beginner cartoonist wasn’t high paying but neither was his day job so as soon as he was making equal amounts from both jobs he went against the advice of the editor of the syndicate and quit his day job. The editors turned down many of his rough ideas but he chose to go with their decision as he felt if it was good enough to be published he would not have to defend it. As he expounded the characters of both Calvin and Hobbes he began to see himself reflected in them. As quoted in the introduction of The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Book One “Hobbes got all my better qualities (and a few quirks from our cats), and Calvin got my ranting escapist side. Together they’re pretty much a transcript of my mental diary.”
Over time more newspapers signed on to run his strip and after a year he got his first Calvin and Hobbes book published which turned into a long time best seller. His work on Calvin and Hobbes was done from home solitarily but with a lot of love and passion. Unfortunately over time it proceeded to completely consume his every waking moment. A big moral question for Watterson as a cartoonist was …show more content…
He is very knowledgeable in politics and has an incredibly overactive imagination when it comes to authority. Many times his lack of proper social behavior lands him in hot water with principals or teachers. When this happens he turns to characters like the popularly mentioned Spaceman Spiff to rescue him from his boredom in class and angry adults. He becomes this character with the ability to do intergalactic space travel and he turns the authority figures he is dealing with in reality to over dramatized monsters and
Over time more newspapers signed on to run his strip and after a year he got his first Calvin and Hobbes book published which turned into a long time best seller. His work on Calvin and Hobbes was done from home solitarily but with a lot of love and passion. Unfortunately over time it proceeded to completely consume his every waking moment. A big moral question for Watterson as a cartoonist was …show more content…
He is very knowledgeable in politics and has an incredibly overactive imagination when it comes to authority. Many times his lack of proper social behavior lands him in hot water with principals or teachers. When this happens he turns to characters like the popularly mentioned Spaceman Spiff to rescue him from his boredom in class and angry adults. He becomes this character with the ability to do intergalactic space travel and he turns the authority figures he is dealing with in reality to over dramatized monsters and