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** Rumor has it that one of the reasons Watterson stopped doing the strip was that his "fans" effectively stole the trademark for Calvin away from him. You know all of those cutesy "Calvin is praying" or "Calvin is Peeing on Something" stickers you see on the back windows of all those trucks and cars? They weren't authorized by Watterson (who licensed a very small amount of merchandise, and nothing like those stickers). By the time the cartoonist found out about them and moved to stop their production, they'd become so ubiquitous and widespread that a judge told him he'd effectively lost his own trademark because he didn't act fast enough. TheOtherWiki states that people selling such things were forced to change the caricature to avoid infringement. Not that it would have changed his anti-consumerism stance on Calvin and Hobbes goods and general strong intent to have the "brand" fade away as much as possible.
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** Rumor has it that one of the reasons Watterson stopped doing the strip was that his "fans" effectively stole the trademark for Calvin away from him. You know all of those cutesy "Calvin is praying" or "Calvin is Peeing on Something" stickers you see on the back windows of all those trucks and cars? They weren't authorized by Watterson (who licensed a very small amount of merchandise, and nothing like those stickers). By the time the cartoonist found out about them and moved to stop their production, they'd become so ubiquitous and widespread that a judge told him he'd effectively lost his own trademark because he didn't act fast enough. TheOtherWiki Website/TheOtherWiki states that people selling such things were forced to change the caricature to avoid infringement. Not that it would have changed his anti-consumerism stance on Calvin and Hobbes goods and general strong intent to have the "brand" fade away as much as possible.
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* WriteWhoYouHate: According to the ''Calvin & Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book'', Moe is based on Creator/BillWatterson's childhood bullies.
--> ''"Moe is every jerk I've ever known.… I remember school being full of idiots like Moe."''
--> ''"Moe is every jerk I've ever known.… I remember school being full of idiots like Moe."''
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* ScienceImitatesArt:
** Two Martian rocks were named Calvin and Hobbes by NASA, as a reference to the StoryArc where the pair travelled to Mars in their little red wagon.
** Two species of parasitic wasp in the genus ''Zagrammosoma'' were named after the pair (''Z. hobbesi'' and ''Z. calvini''). ''Z. hobbesi'' for its striped body, and ''Z. calvini'' for its bristly setae resembling Calvin's AnimeHair.
** Two Martian rocks were named Calvin and Hobbes by NASA, as a reference to the StoryArc where the pair travelled to Mars in their little red wagon.
** Two species of parasitic wasp in the genus ''Zagrammosoma'' were named after the pair (''Z. hobbesi'' and ''Z. calvini''). ''Z. hobbesi'' for its striped body, and ''Z. calvini'' for its bristly setae resembling Calvin's AnimeHair.
