I tried but I was not able to find it... if you guys can find it out...
2006-12-19 16:18:39 · 10 answers · asked by kvn 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Comics & Animation
I don’t think it was ever given, but I’m pretty sure that if it were it would be Watterson. I am confident that Bill Watterson dramatized the experiences of his own young life, the things that scarred him and bent him. Like Moe’s bullying, and Suzie’s rejection of Calvin’s efforts to cope by the psychological defense mechanism of multiple personality disorder, evidenced by Hobbes.
I admire his efforts to break free of the things that enslaved him and win his way back to sanity and health. My hat’s off to him, for giving every poor abused child an escape through imagination, and hope that things will get better.
God bless you, Bill Watterson!
20 DEC 06, 1730 hrs, GMT.
2006-12-20 04:26:22 · answer #1 · answered by cdf-rom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Calvin's full name was Calvin. His parents were always referred to as: Sir and Ma'am or Mom and Dad or Honey and Dear. Bill Waterson, the masterful creator, said he did not give them names aside from Mom and Dad, or last names as he wanted the focus to be from Calvin's prospective (notice they never show his parents starting to get intimate or acting extremely adult) and with no last name things are a little more universal. Case in point, the series Malcolm in the Middle never states where the show takes place, other than the US. They never say the parents ethnicity, other than White. Aside from one or 2 references in the first season their last names are unknown. I think that Bill's work was often underestimated for it's amazing depth in it's simplicity.
2006-12-19 16:47:15 · answer #2 · answered by Ish Var Lan Salinger 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Calvin was never given a full name. He was named after the 16th century theologian John Calvin (founder of Calvinism and a strong believer in predestination) though.
2006-12-19 16:28:40 · answer #3 · answered by rU 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Calvin never had a last name. He was named after John Calvin though.
2006-12-19 16:26:27 · answer #4 · answered by The World Ends with You 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm pretty sure Bill Watterson intended that Calvin doesn't have one.
Watterson has never given Calvin's parents names "because as far as the strip is concerned, they are important only as Calvin's mom and dad."(Wikipedia)
2006-12-19 16:29:59 · answer #5 · answered by poptop 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I remember seeing them in a Danish magazine and they weren't called Calvin and Hobbes.
2006-12-19 16:32:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
He did not have a last name.
he was just "Calvin"
2006-12-19 20:02:39 · answer #7 · answered by tomthebest_ind 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he didnt have a full name, just like how his parents never had a name besides "mom" and "dad"
2006-12-21 07:09:50 · answer #8 · answered by SwordDancer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i thought he doesn't have a full name...because the writer has never even revealed his parents' names...
2006-12-19 17:04:24 · answer #9 · answered by Big Bike Biker 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dug around in here, but couldn't find it anywhere.
2006-12-19 21:57:48 · answer #10 · answered by Nosy Parker 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋