Comic Books and Graphic Novels
Provides useful information about comic books and graphic novels as topics of academic research at the University of Michigan.
Bill Watterson Biography & Criticism
Looking for Calvin and Hobbes by Call Number: PN 6728 .C34 M37 2009ISBN: 9780826429841Publication Date: 2009-10-05
Imagination and Meaning in Calvin and Hobbes by Call Number: PN 6728.C34 H45 2012ISBN: 9780786463541Publication Date: 2012-02-07
Bill Watterson Bibliography
Major works by Bill Watterson in the U-M Library collection. For others, do an author search in the Library Catalog for "Watterson, Bill".
See also Bill Watterson comics available online in the Underground and Independent Comics database.
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Call Number: PN 6728 .C34 W385251 2005ISBN: 0740748475Publication Date: 2005-09-01
The Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book by Call Number: PN 6728 .C34 W385 1989ISBN: 0836218523Publication Date: 1989-01-01
Scientific Progress Goes "Boink" by Call Number: PN 6728 .C34 W382 1991ISBN: 9780836218787Publication Date: 1991-01-01
Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons by Call Number: PN 6728 .C34 W383 1992ISBN: 9780836218831Publication Date: 1992-01-01
Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat by Call Number: PN 6728 .C34 W3854 1994ISBN: 0836217691Publication Date: 1994-09-01
Weirdos from Another Planet! by Call Number: PN 6728 .C34 W3876 1990ISBN: 0836218620Publication Date: 1990-01-01
The Days Are Just Packed by Call Number: PN 6728 .C34 W3853 1993ISBN: 0836217365Publication Date: 1993-09-01
Something under the Bed Is Drooling by Call Number: PN 6728 .C34 W387 1988ISBN: 0836218256Publication Date: 1988-01-01
About Bill Watterson
Bill Watterson is an American cartoonist. His syndicated comic strip, Calvin and Hobbes, ran from 1985 to 1995 and is considered one of the most popular comics of all time.
Bill Watterson Articles
- Metacomics – a poetics of selfreflection in Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes and Pádár and Koska’s ‘Lifetime Story’by Szép, Eszter. Studies in Comics, Volume 5, Number 1 (April 2014).
- Calvin and Hobbes Postmodern and Psychoanalytic Perspectivesby Spitz, Ellen Handler. Psychoanalytic Review, Volume 80 (1993).
- The psychological appeal of Bill Watterson's Calvinby Mahony, Diana L. Humor - International Journal of Humor Research. Volume 13, Issue 1 (July 2009).
- "Calvin and Hobbes": A Critique of Society's Valuesby Coleman, Alisa White. Journal of Mass Media Ethics: Exploring Questions of Media Morality
Volume 15, Issue 1 (2009). - When Real Things Happen to Imaginary Tigersby Sandifer, Phillip. ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies Volume 3, Number 3 (2007).