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Is Calvin an unreliable narrator?
Related: What is Hobbes?
In the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin has a radically different point of view than any of his peers or the adults in the story. One notable example is Hobbes himself, ...
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Why did Bill Watterson choose the character names he did?
Several major characters in Calvin and Hobbes are named after fictional or historical characters.
Calvin is named after theologian John Calvin
Hobbes is named after Thomas Hobbes
Miss Wormwood is ...
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What is Hobbes?
In the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson, Calvin is a boy. He has a tiger friend, who's... a little ambiguous. Is he a doll or a real tiger or a figment of his imagination? To Calvin he ...
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