Editing Calvin and Hobbes (section)

==Legacy==
{{See also|Dear Mr. Watterson}}
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Years after its original newspaper run, ''Calvin and Hobbes'' has continued to exert influence in [[entertainment]],<ref name="ohehir2013">{{cite web |url=http://www.salon.com/2013/11/13/dear_mr_watterson_remembering_the_last_great_newspaper_comic/ |title='Dear Mr. Watterson': Remembering the last great newspaper comic |first=Andrew |last=O'Hehir |date=2013-11-13 |work=[[Salon (website)|Salon]] |publisher=Salon Media Group |location=San Francisco, California |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924100511/http://www.salon.com/2013/11/13/dear_mr_watterson_remembering_the_last_great_newspaper_comic/ |archive-date=2015-09-24 |url-status=live |access-date=2015-11-21 |quote='Calvin and Hobbes' has been immensely influential – but mostly in TV animation, in stand-up and sketch comedy, and in graphic novels and in Internet culture. The newspaper comic, like the newspaper itself, has lost its social meaning.}}</ref><ref name="adkins2012">{{cite web |url=http://www.1up.com/features/weighing-light-dark-calvin-hobbes |title=Weighing the Light and Dark of Calvin and Hobbes |first=Nickolai |last=Adkins |date=2012-07-13 |work=[[1UP.com]] |publisher=[[IGN]] |access-date=2015-11-21 |quote=Bill Watterson's work is undoubtedly art, but what is more important is what this means for dissonant media like that of video games. Calvin and Hobbes is proof that mass perception does not make a truth -- that a preconception of elitists or the uninitiated about what is and isn't art doesn't make it so.... Calvin and Hobbes proves that any artistic form can wear multiple hats. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208155344/http://www.1up.com/features/weighing-light-dark-calvin-hobbes |archive-date=December 8, 2015 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> [[art]],<ref name="antunes2010">{{cite web |url=http://abduzeedo.com/calvin-and-hobbes-collection |title=Calvin and Hobbes Collection |first=Paulo Gabriel |last=Antunes |date=2010-11-30 |work=Abduzeedo |location=Brazil |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150122214922/http://abduzeedo.com/calvin-and-hobbes-collection |archive-date=2015-01-22 |url-status=live |access-date=2015-11-21 |quote=Bill Watterson's creation gotta be the reason why I love illustration.... And also, there's tons of fan art around the web, really good ones, and even sculptures.}}</ref><ref name="daniel2012">{{cite web |url=http://www.jazjaz.net/2012/06/the-days-are-just-packed-calvin-and-hobbes-inspired-art-print.html |title='The Days Are Just Packed' - A Calvin and Hobbes Inspired Art Print |author=Daniel |date=2012-06-07 |work=JazJaz |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150322231405/http://www.jazjaz.net/2012/06/the-days-are-just-packed-calvin-and-hobbes-inspired-art-print.html |archive-date=March 22, 2015 |url-status=dead |access-date=2015-11-21 |quote=Casey Weldon's latest art print, inspired by his childhood favorites – Calvin and Hobbes, will be released in conjunction with the opening of his solo show at Spoke Art. }}</ref> and [[fandom]].<ref name="olmstead2013">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.theamericanconservative.com/2013/07/20/imagination-and-the-artistic-value-of-calvin-hobbes/ |title=Imagination and the Artistic Value of Calvin & Hobbes |first=Gracy |last=Olmstead |date=2013-07-20 |magazine=[[The American Conservative]] |publisher=The American Ideas Institute |location=Washington, D.C. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150909103656/http://www.theamericanconservative.com/2013/07/20/imagination-and-the-artistic-value-of-calvin-hobbes/ |archive-date=2015-09-09 |url-status=live |access-date=2015-11-21 |quote=Bill Watterson's comic series ''Calvin and Hobbes'' has inspired a religious following since its publication. Even after its retirement in 1995, millions of readers remained devoted to the series.}}</ref><ref name="hawking2013">{{cite web |url=http://flavorwire.com/425132/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-calvin-and-hobbes |title=10 Things You Didn't Know About 'Calvin and Hobbes' |first=Tom |last=Hawking |date=2013-11-14 |work=Flavorwire |publisher=Flavorpill Media |location=New York, New York |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150504012347/http://flavorwire.com/425132/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-calvin-and-hobbes |archive-date=2015-05-04 |url-status=live |access-date=2015-11-21 |quote=''Calvin & Hobbes'' has always inspired a special brand of obsessive geekdom...}}</ref>

In television, Calvin and Hobbes have been satirically depicted in [[stop motion animation]] in the 2006 and 2018 ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' episodes "[[Robot Chicken (season 2)|Lust for Puppets]]" and "[[Robot Chicken (season 9)|Jew No. 1 Opens a Treasure Chest]]" respectively, and in [[traditional animation]] in the 2009 ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "[[Not All Dogs Go to Heaven]]."<ref>{{harvp|Martell|2010|pp=216-217}}</ref> In the 2013 ''[[Community (TV series)|Community]]'' episode "[[Paranormal Parentage]]," the characters [[Abed Nadir]] ([[Danny Pudi]]) and Troy Barnes ([[Donald Glover]]) dress as Calvin and Hobbes, respectively, for [[Halloween]].

British artists, merchandisers, booksellers, and philosophers were interviewed for a 2009 [[BBC Radio 4]] half-hour programme about the abiding popularity of the comic strip, narrated by [[Phill Jupitus]].<ref name="bbcradio42009">{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mr2fj |title=Calvin and Hobbes |date=2009-09-22 |publisher=[[BBC Radio 4]] |location=United Kingdom |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120223161243/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mr2fj |archive-date=2012-02-23 |url-status=live |access-date=2015-11-21}}</ref>

The first book-length study of the strip,<ref name="matos2009">{{cite web |url=https://www.avclub.com/review/nevin-martell-ilooking-for-calvin-and-hobbesi-33801 |title=Nevin Martell: ''Looking For Calvin And Hobbes'' |first=Michaelangelo |last=Matos |date=2009-10-08 |work=[[The A.V. Club]] |publisher=[[Onion, Inc.]] |location=Chicago, Illinois |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150202211019/http://www.avclub.com/review/nevin-martell-ilooking-for-calvin-and-hobbesi-33801 |archive-date=2015-02-02 |url-status=live |access-date=2015-11-21 |quote=It's surprising that until now, no one has attempted a book-length study of Bill Watterson's ''Calvin And Hobbes''.}}</ref> ''Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip'' by Nevin Martell, was first published in 2009; an expanded edition was published in 2010.<ref name="grzegorek2010">{{cite web |url=http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2010/08/31/expanded-book-chronicles-search-for-bill-watterson-calvin-and-hobbes-creator |title=Expanded Book Chronicles Search for Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes Creator |last1=Grzegorek |first1=Vince |last2=Ferris |first2=D. X. |date=2010-08-31 |work=Scene and Heard: Cleveland Scene's News Blog |publisher=[[Cleveland Scene]] |location=Cleveland, Ohio |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131013200426/http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2010/08/31/expanded-book-chronicles-search-for-bill-watterson-calvin-and-hobbes-creator |archive-date=2013-10-13 |url-status=live |access-date=2015-12-02}}</ref> The book chronicles Martell's quest to tell the story of ''Calvin and Hobbes'' and Watterson through research and interviews with people connected to the cartoonist and his work.<ref>{{harvp|Martell|2010}}.</ref> The director of the later documentary ''[[Dear Mr. Watterson]]'' referenced ''Looking for Calvin and Hobbes'' in discussing the production of the movie,<ref name="hankins2013">{{cite web |url=http://nerdrepository.com/interview-joel-allen-schroeder-explores-impact-calvin-hobbes-documentary-dear-watterson/ |title=INTERVIEW – Joel Allen Schroeder explores the impact of 'Calvin and Hobbes' with documentary 'Dear Mr. Watterson' |first=Brent |last=Hankins |date=2013-11-19 |work=The Nerd Repository |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150331014533/http://nerdrepository.com/interview-joel-allen-schroeder-explores-impact-calvin-hobbes-documentary-dear-watterson/ |archive-date=2015-03-31 |url-status=live |access-date=2015-11-21 |quote=[Watterson] declined to be interviewed for Nevin Martell's book a few years back, and I felt like if he wasn't going to do an interview for a book, it was unlikely he would be involved or participate in a film.}}</ref> and Martell appears in the film.<ref name="lambert2013">{{cite web |url=http://www.tor.com/2013/11/15/dear-mr-watterson-movie-review/ |title=''Dear Mr. Watterson'': New ''Calvin and Hobbes'' Documentary Has So Many Feels |first=Nancy |last=Lambert |date=2013-11-15 |work=[[Tor.com]] |publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151202060740/http://www.tor.com/2013/11/15/dear-mr-watterson-movie-review/ |archive-date=2015-12-02 |url-status=live |access-date=2015-11-21}}</ref>

The American documentary film ''Dear Mr. Watterson'', released in 2013, explores the impact and legacy of ''Calvin and Hobbes'' through interviews with authors, curators, historians, and numerous professional cartoonists.<ref name="makice2012">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.wired.com/2012/07/dear-mr-watterson/ |title=Dear Mr. Watterson Explains Why Geeks Love Calvin and Hobbes |first=Kevin |last=Makice |date=2012-07-02 |magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |publisher=[[Condé Nast]] |location=San Francisco, California |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151202113552/http://www.wired.com/2012/07/dear-mr-watterson/ |archive-date=2015-12-02 |url-status=live |access-date=2015-11-21 |quote=...the film raised $25,000 to allow the crew to capture interviews with industry cartoonists, including [[Bill Amend]] (Foxtrot), [[Berkeley Breathed]] (Bloom County, Outland, Opus), [[Seth Green]] (co-creator, Robot Chicken) and [[Wiley Miller]] (Non-Sequitur).}}</ref><ref name="goldstein2013">{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-dear-mr-watterson-review-20131115-story.html |title=Review: A love letter to 'Dear Mr. Watterson' |first=Gary |last=Goldstein |date=2013-11-14 |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |location=Los Angeles, California |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150101172810/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-dear-mr-watterson-review-20131115-story.html |archive-date=2015-01-01 |url-status=live |access-date=2015-11-21 |quote=Schroeder interviews a starry array of cartoonists, including [[Berkeley Breathed]] ("Bloom County"), [[Stephan Pastis]] ("Pearls Before Swine") and [[Jan Eliot]] ("Stone Soup"), plus authors, curators, historians and the toon's syndicators, all of whom wax poetic about Watterson's creation and its enduring influence.}}</ref>

The enduring significance of ''Calvin and Hobbes'' to international cartooning was recognized by the jury of the [[Angoulême International Comics Festival]] in 2014 by the awarding of its Grand Prix to Watterson, only the fourth American to ever receive the honor (after [[Will Eisner]], [[Robert Crumb]], and [[Art Spiegelman]]).<ref name="potet2014">{{cite news |url=http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2014/02/02/angouleme-le-grand-prix-attribue-a-bill-watterson-le-pere-de-calvin-et-hobbes_4358548_3246.html |title=Angoulême : le Grand Prix attribué à Bill Watterson, le père de " Calvin et Hobbes " |first=Frédéric |last=Potet |date=2014-02-02 |newspaper=[[Le Monde]] |location=Paris |language=fr |access-date=2015-12-05}}</ref><ref name="angoulême2014">{{cite web |url=http://grandprix.bdangouleme.com/10/laureat-2014.html |title=Election du Grand Prix du Festival d'Angoulême 2014 |year=2014 |publisher=[[Angoulême International Comics Festival]] |language=fr |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141228184923/http://grandprix.bdangouleme.com/10/laureat-2014.html |archive-date=2014-12-28 |url-status=live |access-date=2015-12-05}}</ref>

From 2016 to 2021, author [[Berkeley Breathed]] included ''Calvin and Hobbes'' in various ''[[Bloom County]]'' cartoons. He launched the first cartoon on April Fool's Day 2016 and jokingly issued a statement suggesting that he had acquired ''Calvin and Hobbes'' from Bill Watterson, who was "out of the Arizona facility, continent and looking forward to some well-earned financial security."<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.cbr.com/berkeley-breatheds-calvin-and-hobbes-gag-wins-april-fools-day/|title=Berkeley Breathed's 'Calvin and Hobbes' gag wins April Fools' Day|date=2016-04-01|work=CBR|access-date=2017-07-06|language=en-US}}</ref> While bearing Watterson's signature and drawing style as well as featuring characters from both ''Calvin and Hobbes'' and Breathed's ''Bloom County'', it is unclear whether Watterson had any input into these cartoons or not.

''Calvin and Hobbes'' remains the most viewed comic on GoComics, which cycles through old strips with an approximately 30-year delay.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Voutiritsas |first1=Thea |title=The 12 Most Popular Comic Strips of 2018 {{!}} GoComics.com |url=https://www.gocomics.com/blog/4779/the-12-most-popular-comic-strips-of-2018 |website=GoComics |language=en |date=4 January 2019}}</ref>

===Grown-up Calvin===
Portraying Calvin as a teenager/adult has inspired writers.<ref name="leavitt2015">{{cite book |last=Leavitt |first=Martine |author-link=Martine Leavitt |title=Calvin |year=2015 |publisher=[[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]] |isbn=978-0374380731}}</ref><ref name="jagny2015">{{cite book |last=Jagny |first=Louis A. E. |title=All Grown Up: A Boy and His Tiger |type=[[One-act play]] |year=2015 |publisher=[[Amazon.com|CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform]] |isbn=978-1514752487}}</ref>

In 2011, a comic strip appeared by cartoonists Dan and Tom Heyerman called ''Hobbes and Bacon''.<ref name="heyerman2011">{{cite web |url=http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/archive/2011/05/10/hobbes-and-bacon/ |title=Hobbes and Bacon |first1=Dan |last1=Heyerman |first2=Tom |last2=Heyerman |date=2011-05-10 |work=Pants are Overrated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151103002409/http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/archive/2011/05/10/hobbes-and-bacon/ |archive-date=2015-11-03 |url-status=live |access-date=2015-12-05}}</ref> The strip depicts Calvin as an adult, married to Susie Derkins with a young daughter named after philosopher [[Francis Bacon]], to whom Calvin gives Hobbes.<ref name="krulwich2011">{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/05/31/136817328/calvin-hobbes-and-comic-book-biology |title=Calvin, Hobbes And Comic Book Biology |first=Robert |last=Krulwich |author-link=Robert Krulwich |date=2011-05-31 |work=Krulwich Wonders... |publisher=[[NPR]] |location=Washington, D.C. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150912150150/http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/05/31/136817328/calvin-hobbes-and-comic-book-biology |archive-date=2015-09-12 |url-status=live |access-date=2015-12-05 |quote=Dan and Tom Heyerman...to the delight of many Calvin and Hobbes fans...brought Calvin back...as an adult!... Not only that, he has a kid, a daughter named 'Bacon' (named for the Enlightenment philosopher, Francis Bacon.)}}</ref> Though consisting of only four strips originally, ''Hobbes and Bacon'' received considerable attention when it appeared and was continued by other cartoonists and artists.<ref name="krulwich2012">{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/02/15/146939479/calvin-and-hobbes-add-the-bacon |title=Calvin And Hobbes, Add The Bacon |first=Robert |last=Krulwich |author-link=Robert Krulwich |date=2012-02-15 |work=Krulwich Wonders... |publisher=[[NPR]] |location=Washington, D.C. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150920153452/http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/02/15/146939479/calvin-and-hobbes-add-the-bacon |archive-date=2015-09-20 |url-status=live |access-date=2015-12-05 |quote='Hobbes and Bacon'...went instantly viral.}}</ref><ref name="robinson2013">{{cite web |url=https://www.avclub.com/article/check-out-the-web-cartoonists-continuing-icalvin-a-93700 |title=Check out the web cartoonists continuing ''Calvin And Hobbes'' |first=Tasha |last=Robinson |date=2013-03-14 |work=[[The A.V. Club]] |publisher=[[Onion, Inc.]] |location=Chicago, Illinois |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150526073337/http://www.avclub.com/article/check-out-the-web-cartoonists-continuing-icalvin-a-93700 |archive-date=2015-05-26 |url-status=live |access-date=2015-12-05 |quote=The strips got a lot of attention when they first posted, and Watterson fans often point back to them.... Terra Snover picked it up with...strips continuing the ''Hobbes And Bacon'' idea... In February 2013, Phil Berry at DeviantArt started posting his own, more elaborate ''Hobbes And Bacon'' strips... Meanwhile, a fourth artist, DeviantArt's DomNX, has spent the past year churning out his own still-ongoing ''Calvin And Company'' strip...}}</ref>

A novel titled ''[[Calvin (novel)|Calvin]]'' by [[CLA Young Adult Book Award]]–winning<ref name="cla2013">{{cite web|url=http://www.cla.ca/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home&CONTENTID=14096&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm |title=Canadian Library Association Announces 2013 CLA Young Adult Book Award Winner and Honour Books |date=2013-04-15 |publisher=[[Canadian Library Association]] |location=Ottawa, Ontario |format=CFM |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150508091031/http://www.cla.ca/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home&CONTENTID=14096&TEMPLATE=%2FCM%2FContentDisplay.cfm |archive-date=May 8, 2015 |url-status=dead |access-date=2015-12-05 }}</ref> author [[Martine Leavitt]] was published in 2015.<ref name="leavitt2015" /> The story tells of seventeen-year-old Calvin—who was born on the day that ''Calvin and Hobbes'' ended, and who has now been diagnosed with [[schizophrenia]]—and his [[hallucination]] of Hobbes, his childhood stuffed tiger. With his friend Susie, who might also be a hallucination, Calvin sets off to find Bill Watterson in the hope that the cartoonist can provide aid for Calvin's condition.<ref name="pw2015">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/68658-pw-picks-books-of-the-week-november-16-2015.html |title=PW Picks: Books of the Week, November 16, 2015 |date=2015-11-13 |magazine=[[Publishers Weekly]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151122152055/http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/68658-pw-picks-books-of-the-week-november-16-2015.html |archive-date=2015-11-22 |url-status=live |access-date=2015-12-05}}</ref>

The titular character of the comic strip ''[[Frazz]]'' has been noted for his similar appearance and personality to a grown-up Calvin. Creator [[Jef Mallett]] has stated that although Watterson is an inspiration to him, the similarities are unintentional.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2008-09-22|title=newsobserver.com {{!}} Jef Mallett: 'Frazz'|url=http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/514066.html|access-date=2021-02-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080922222529/http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/514066.html|archive-date=September 22, 2008}}</ref>