The Facts
- Calvin's school principle is named Mr. Spittle.
- Captain Napalm appears only once throughout the series.
- Susie is left-handed.
- Calvin's mum uses Wiz Fiz for their laundry.
- Bill Watterson worked as a political cartoonist and a grocery ad designer before working on Calvin and Hobbes.
- Spaceman Spiff predates Calvin and Hobbes by about ten years (both strips were Watterson's, of course).
- Calvin and Hobbes ran from November 18, 1985 to December 31, 1995.
- Calvin's dad is a patent attorney
- Bill Watterson was the youngest person to win the Reuben Award for "Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year."
- I am adding this here having nowhere else to put it. It is an editorial cartoon Watterson did in 1980 for The Cincinnati Post. I think it is great how this was as true nearly 30 years ago as it is now.
