Calvin and Hobbes

Sketchbook for 9/27/11
1) Draw Calvin and Hobbes : smoothly shading and using all 10 values.
2) write notes about Bill waterson, John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes in your sketchbook

3) Answer How are Calvin and Hobbes (the cartoon) like the theologians?


Created by Bill Watterson

Bill Watterson is the author of Calvin and Hobbes, an immensely popular comic strip about a hyperactive, imaginative 6 year-old and his relationship with his plush tiger Hobbes, who comes to life when no one is looking. Watterson, who studied political science in college, began his career with a brief, unsuccessful stint drawing political cartoons for the Cincinnati Post. In the year following its debut on November 18, 1985, Calvin and Hobbes was picked up by over 400 newspapers. It received both popular and critical acclaim, with Watterson winning the National Cartoonist Society's Reuben Award in both 1986 and 1988.

Watterson saw his work as an art form, and he battled to be allowed to structure his Sunday cartoons in ways that differed with the norms of the time; as a result, in many of his cartoons, the panels overlap or contain internal panels and action takes place on the diagonal. Similarly, Watterson never agreed to allow the sale of merchandise based on his Calvin and Hobbes characters, for fear that it would compromise his artistic integrity. Like Gary Larson of The Far Side, Watterson ended his comic strip at the height of its popularity. He retired in 1996 at age 38 and, tired of daily deadlines and working in small panels, took up painting. Watterson has published several anthologies of Calvin and Hobbes, and the comic strip continues to be reprinted in newspapers. from http://www.answers.com/topic/bill-watterson
If the names Calvin and Hobbes ring a bell, the popular 6 year old and his stuff tiger are named for theologians John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes. for more information on John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes see the links below
John Calvin

http://www.ccel.org/c/calvin
Thomas Hobbes

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hobbes-moral/