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Jadyn Muniz - My Calvin and Hobbes Art Exhibit Brochure

Calvin and Hobbes is a comic strip written by Bill Watterson focusing on the adventures of Calvin, a mischievous 6-year old boy, and his stuffed tiger Hobbes. The comic explores themes of childhood imagination, friendship, and growing up. This museum is displaying original Calvin and Hobbes comic strips, including ones illustrating a child's imagination and the theme of friendship between Calvin and his imaginary friend Hobbes, as well as a strip making a social commentary on peaceful role models and assumptions made in war.

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Jadyn Muniz - My Calvin and Hobbes Art Exhibit Brochure

Calvin and Hobbes is a comic strip written by Bill Watterson focusing on the adventures of Calvin, a mischievous 6-year old boy, and his stuffed tiger Hobbes. The comic explores themes of childhood imagination, friendship, and growing up. This museum is displaying original Calvin and Hobbes comic strips, including ones illustrating a child's imagination and the theme of friendship between Calvin and his imaginary friend Hobbes, as well as a strip making a social commentary on peaceful role models and assumptions made in war.

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CALVIN AND HOBBES 

​ART EXHIBIT 

 
 
Calvin and Hobbes​ is a series of comic strips written by Bill 
Watterson. The comics focus on a naughty six year old boy, 
Calvin, and his stuffed tiger and best friend, Hobbes. Together 
they go on ‘adventures’ that usually end in disaster.     
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​About Bill Watterson   


Bill Watterson was born on July 5, 1958. As a child, 
Watterson wasn’t much like his character Calvin. He drew 
cartoons for his college paper, drew political cartoons, 
and unhappily designed advertisements before he started 
drawing​ Calvin and Hobbes​. While drawing​ Calvin and 
Hobbes​, Watterson was influenced by other cartoonists 
like Charles Schultz (​Peanuts​ creator) and Walt Kelly 
(​Pogo​ illustrator). He received the National Cartoonists’ 
CALVIN AND HOBBES 
​ART EXHIBIT 

 
 
Society’s Reuben Award, and was the youngest cartoonist 
to do so. Watterson retired the strip when he was 37.  
 
Themes 
 
Common themes in ​Calvin and Hobbes​ are children’s 
imaginations, friendship, and the experience of growing up. 
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This is one of the comic strips that is displayed in the museum. 
It illustrates the power of a child’s imagination. 
CALVIN AND HOBBES 
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This is another comic strip being displayed in the museum. 
The theme of this comic strip is friendship, and imagination 
(since Hobbes is Calvin’s imaginary friend). 
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This is a C
​ alvin and Hobbes ​comic on display that makes a 
social commentary. They say that there are not enough 
peaceful role models for kids, and they shoot each other with 
toy guns at the same time, which is a metaphor for how in war, 
nobody wins because people on both sides die. They also bring 
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up that in most wars, people automatically assume that the 
people on the ‘enemy’ side are terrible people. 

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