Looking for Calvin and Hobbes, Nevin Martell
Looking for Calvin and Hobbes, Nevin Martell
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Looking for Calvin and Hobbes
The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and his Revolutionary Comic Strip

Author: Nevin Martell

Narrator: Jeremy Arthur

Unabridged: 7 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Lantern Audio

Published: 11/13/2014

Synopsis

For ten years, Calvin and Hobbes was one the world's most beloved comic strips. And then, on the last day of 1995, the strip ended. Its mercurial and reclusive creator, Bill Watterson, not only finished the strip but withdrew entirely from public life.In Looking for Calvin and Hobbes, Nevin Martell sets out on a very personal odyssey to understand the life and career of the intensely private man behind Calvin and Hobbes. Martell talks to a wide range of artists and writers (including Dave Barry, Harvey Pekar, and Brad Bird) as well as some of Watterson's closest friends and professional colleagues, and along the way reflects upon the nature of his own fandom and on the extraordinary legacy that Watterson left behind. This is as close as we're ever likely to get to one of America's most ingenious and intriguing figures - and it's the fascinating story of an intrepid author's search for him, too.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael on June 24, 2019

As someone who considers Calvin and Hobbes to be one of his very favorite things, I breezed through this biography with expectations that in retrospect I know had no business being so lofty. Anyone familiar with C&H knows that Bill Watterson has chosen not to be a public figure and has not bastardiz......more

Goodreads review by Vonia on April 27, 2018

One chapter in, I already realized that I was to be greatly disappointed. Watterson's secret life was no more illuminated two hundred forty pages later... I suppose the author did warn us in the foreword that this was a story about not only Watterson, Calvin, & Hobbes, but also about himself.... & t......more

Goodreads review by Michael on October 21, 2009

When I first found out about Looking for Calvin and Hobbes (from a BoingBoing post), I knew instantly that it was something that I wanted to get my hands on. Consequently, I pre-ordered the book immediately, and waited over 4 months for it to reach me. I was in the middle of another book that I real......more

Goodreads review by Josh on July 19, 2024

2024 - Listened. 3rd time. Love it. Love C&H. Watterson is the greatest. 2023 - Read again. Still great. I think this is a really a great exercise in appreciation. Of one of the most important American artists ever. You can’t please everyone, though...Bill Watterson taught us that, among so many other......more

Goodreads review by Jim on April 21, 2011

An undemanding hagiography written at undergraduate level with minimal evident research, and with little or nothing new to add to the legend that is Calvin and Hobbes - at least for the long-time reader of the strip. An immediate give-away is the total lack of photographic research or cartoons to ill......more

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