Editing Calvin and Hobbes (section)

==Reception==
Reviewing ''Calvin and Hobbes'' in 1990, ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''{{'s}} [[Ken Tucker]] gave the strip an A+ rating, writing "Watterson summons up the pain and confusion of childhood as much as he does its innocence and fun."<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Tucker |first1=Ken |title=Ken Tucker rates the daily comic strips |url=https://ew.com/article/1990/10/05/ken-tucker-rates-daily-comic-strips/ |access-date=12 December 2019 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=5 October 1990}}</ref>

===Academic response===
In 1993, [[paleontologist]] and [[paleoartist]] [[Gregory S. Paul]] praised Bill Watterson for the scientific accuracy of the dinosaurs appearing in ''Calvin and Hobbes''.<ref>{{cite news|author-link=Gregory S. Paul |first=Gregory S. |last=Paul |url=http://gspauldino.com/Comichistory.pdf |title=A Comic History of Dinosaurs |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] via Bringing Them Back to Life: The Science and Art of Gregory S. Paul (official site) |date=November 6, 1993 |page=A24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414055751/http://gspauldino.com/Comichistory.pdf |archive-date=April 14, 2012 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref>

In her 1994 book ''When Toys Come Alive'', [[Lois Rostow Kuznets]] theorizes that Hobbes serves both as a figure of Calvin's childish fantasy life and as an outlet for the expression of [[libido|libidinous]] desires more associated with adults. Kuznets also analyzes Calvin's other fantasies, suggesting that they are a second tier of fantasies utilized in places like school where [[transitional object]]s such as Hobbes would not be socially acceptable.<ref>{{cite book | last = Kuznets | first = Lois Rostow | title = When Toys Come Alive | url = https://archive.org/details/whentoyscomealiv00kuzn | url-access = registration | publisher = [[Yale University Press]] | year = 1994| isbn = 9780300056457 }}</ref>

Political scientist [[James Q. Wilson]], in a paean to ''Calvin and Hobbes'' upon Watterson's decision to end the strip in 1995, characterized it as "our only popular explication of the [[moral philosophy]] of [[Aristotle]]."<ref name="wilson1995">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Protected/Articles/000/000/006/844kyqdt.asp |title='Calvin and Hobbes' and the Moral Sense |first=James Q. |last=Wilson |author-link=James Q. Wilson |date=1995-12-17 |magazine=[[The Weekly Standard]] |publisher=Clarity Media Group |location=Washington, D.C. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151009043612/http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Protected/Articles/000/000/006/844kyqdt.asp |archive-date=2015-10-09 |url-status=dead |access-date=2015-11-21}}</ref>

A collection of original Sunday strips was exhibited at [[Ohio State University]]'s [[Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum]] in 2001. Watterson himself selected the strips and provided his own commentary for the exhibition catalog, which was later published by Andrews McMeel as ''Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985–1995''.<ref name="Watterson 2001"/>

Since the discontinuation of ''Calvin and Hobbes'', individual strips have been licensed for reprint in schoolbooks, including the Christian [[homeschooling]] book ''The Fallacy Detective'' in 2002,<ref name="tfd">{{cite book | title=The Fallacy Detective | isbn=0-9745315-0-2 | last=Bluedorn | first=Hans | publisher=Christian Logic | year=2002}}</ref> and the university-level philosophy reader ''Open Questions: Readings for Critical Thinking and Writing'' in 2005; in the latter, the ethical views of Watterson and his characters Calvin and Hobbes are discussed in relation to the views of professional philosophers.<ref name=openques>{{cite book |editor1-first=Chris |editor1-last=Anderson |editor2-first=Lex |editor2-last=Runciman |title=Open Questions: Readings for Critical Thinking and Writing |year=2005 |publisher=[[Bedford-St. Martin's]] |isbn=978-0-312-41635-5 |pages=413–414}}</ref> In a 2009 evaluation of the entire body of ''Calvin and Hobbes'' strips using [[grounded theory]] methodology, Christijan D. Draper found that: "Overall, ''Calvin and Hobbes'' suggests that meaningful time use is a key attribute of a life well lived," and that "the strip suggests one way to assess the meaning associated with time use is through preemptive retrospection by which a person looks at current experiences through the lens of an anticipated future..."<ref name="draper2009">{{cite thesis |last=Draper |first=Christijan D. |date=2009-05-14 |title=Exploring Calvin and Hobbes: Comic Strip Illuminates Issues Surrounding Family Recreation |type=M.S. |publisher=[[Brigham Young University]] |url=http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/etd2924 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130328204011/http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/1694 |archive-date=2013-03-28 |url-status=live |access-date=2015-11-24}}</ref>

''Calvin and Hobbes'' strips were again exhibited at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at The Ohio State University in 2014, in an exhibition entitled ''Exploring Calvin and Hobbes''.<ref name="exploring2014">{{cite web |url=http://cartoons.osu.edu/events/exploring-calvin-and-hobbes/ |title=Exploring Calvin and Hobbes: March 22, 2014 – August 3, 2014 |year=2014 |publisher=[[Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum]], [[Ohio State University]] |location=Columbus, Ohio |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150811001523/http://cartoons.osu.edu/events/exploring-calvin-and-hobbes/ |archive-date=2015-08-11 |url-status=live |access-date=2015-11-21}}</ref> An exhibition catalog by the same title, which also contained an interview with Watterson conducted by Jenny Robb, the curator of the museum, was published by Andrews McMeel in 2015.<ref name="cavna2015">{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/03/09/bill-watterson-talks-this-is-why-you-must-read-the-new-exploring-calvin-and-hobbes-book/ |title=Bill Watterson talks: This is why you must read the new 'Exploring Calvin and Hobbes' book |first=Michael |last=Cavna |author-link=Michael Cavna |date=2015-03-09 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |publisher=Nash Holdings LLC |location=Washington, D.C. |access-date=2015-11-21}}</ref><ref>[[#CITEREFWatterson2015|Watterson (2015)]].</ref>