Description
Experience this pretty companion book to the extensive Exploring Calvin and Hobbes exhibition on the Billy Ireland Cool animated film Library. Includes an in-depth, original,and lengthy interview with Bill Watterson.
Exploring Calvin and Hobbes is the catalogue for an exhibition by the similar name on the Billy Ireland Cool animated film Library & Museum at Ohio State University that ran in 2014. The exhibit is Bill Watterson’s personal exploration of how the beauty of Calvin and Hobbes came to be. It includes original art of Calvin and Hobbes, in conjunction with Watterson’s original observation. The show also includes art from cartoons and cartoonists that Watterson has identified as influential within the development of his art, including Peanuts, Pogo, Krazy Kat, Doonesbury, Pat Oliphant, Jim Borgman, Flash Gordon, Bloom County, and Steadman. The book also includes an extensive, original interview with Watterson by Jenny Robb, the exhibition’s curator.
The Billy Ireland Cool animated film Library & Museum is the repository of the Bill Watterson Deposit Collection (including the entirety of Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes artwork).