Opportunity

in the late evening on Saturday, the 19th of July 2003 by Chad

Damn, I feel unimportant now. Not listed on a small victory’s pirate links list.
At least the little dead girl liked Pirates of the Carribean also.
And then she asks about Calvin and Hobbes. She wonders if Hobbes came alive or if he was just in Calvin’s imagination. Hobbes is neither. It is an irrelevant question. To Calvin, Hobbes is alive, and to everyone else, he is a stuffed animal. I do believe this is perfectly in line with current theoretical physics models. Schroedinger’s cat and all that. Hobbes just is. And thats perfect fine with me. In one of the books I have Bill Watterson covers this point.

The so-called “gimmick” of my strip–the two versions of Hobbes–is sometimes misunderstood. I don’t think of Hobbes as a doll that miraculously comes to life when Calvin’s around. Neither do I think of Hobbes as the product of Calvin’s imagination. The nature of Hobbes reality doesn’t interest me, and each story goes out of its way to avoid resolving the issue. Calvin sees Hobbes one way, and everyone else sees Hobbes another way. I show two versions of reality, and each makes complete sense to the participant who sees it. I think that’s how life works. None of us sees the world in exactly the same way, and I just draw that literally in the strip. Hobbes is more about the subjective nature of reality that about dolls coming to life.

Take a look at this Calvin and Hobbes website.