Who Is Hobbes? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Hobbes is a Andrews McMeel Publishing comic book character, with over 969 comic issue appearances. To most he is a stuffed tiger, but to Calvin, his best friend, Hobbes is a real sophisticated tiger who loves tuna. Hobbes has the more moral integrity of the two, and encourages Calvin to seek happiness from virtue instead of pranks - although he pulls off some pranks himself.

Who is Hobbes?

Hobbes is one of the main characters in Calvin & Hobbes series by Bill Watterson . He is a stuffed tiger which becomes 'real' when he's alone with Calvin , his six years old little friend. Bill Waterson says that the concept of Hobbes being a stuffed tiger to everyone else besides Calvin is because we all don't see the world the exact same way, and he literally portrays it in his comic strips. Origin On the very first Calvin and Hobbes strip Calvin rigged a trap with a tuna fish sandwich so he could capture his very own tiger. However, it is later shown that Hobbes has belonged to Calvin since he was a baby, remembering that Calvin would often burp up. Creation Hobbes initially did not appear in Calvin and Hobbes at all. In fact, years before his character was decided, a bear who looked remarkably like him appeared in a different comic strip that Bill Watterson had written, called ‘Critters.’ After the strip was rejected outright and never saw print, Watterson liked the personality of the unnamed bear, and decided to use him in a different strip that he was shopping around to different newspapers called ‘Marvin and Hobbes.’ The name Hobbes was chosen for the character, because .

Key facts

Hobbes is of animal origin. The character is published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. With 969 recorded issue appearances, Hobbes ranks among the most featured characters in comics.