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Hobbes of Calvin and Hobbes wasn’t meant to be imaginary.

Hobbes of Calvin and Hobbes wasn’t meant to be imaginary. More specifically, Hobbes wasn’t meant to be explicitly imaginary. Elaborating on that, to Calvin, Hobbes is a walking, talking, anthropomorphic tiger. From the perspective of other characters, the readers see a stuffed tiger.  That might seem pretty open and shut, that the anthropomorphic Hobbes is just in Calvin’s imagination, but Bill Watterson, the creator, explains it a little differently.  He says that these two visuals, the live animal and the stuffed animal, are really a dichotomy, or a separation of...

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Published By: OMGFacts - Friday, 10 August, 2012