Exploring Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes

Buy Tickets $15 Limited seating; reservations required. Exploring Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes: Curator Talk From 1985 to 1995, Bill Watterson created one of the most celebrated and beloved newspaper comic strips of all time: Calvin and Hobbes. The strip featured the adventures (and misadventures) of 6-year-old Calvin and his trusty companion, Hobbes. Join exhibition curator, Jenny Robb for a lecture exploring Watterson’s masterful artistry and storytelling, the evolution of the strip, and his place in the history of American newspaper comics. Robb will present exclusive recordings of Watterson discussing the strip and his process and will offer insights into Watterson’s inspirations, including cartoonists George Herriman and Charles M. Schulz, whose work is also view. Jenny Robb is Head Curator of Comics and Cartoon Art at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, which houses the Bill Watterson Collection of more than 3,000 original Calvin and Hobbes daily and Sunday comic strips. In collaboration with Watterson, she curated the exhibition “Exploring Calvin and Hobbes”, which opens at the Norman Rockwell Museum on November 14th. Reduced program fees are offered thanks to funding from the Art Bridges Cohort Program This multi-year, multi-institutional art sharing partnership formed by the Delaware Art Museum, in collaboration with the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, the Brandywine River Museum of Art, the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, the New Britain Museum of American Art, and the Norman Rockwell Museum, is made possible by the Art Bridges Cohort Program. About Art Bridges Art Bridges Foundation is the vision of philanthropist and arts patron Alice Walton. Founded in 2017, Art Bridges creates and supports projects that share works of American art with communities across the United States and its territories. Art Bridges partners with a growing network of over 300 museums—impacting 25 million people nationwide—to provide…