For those curious about a female perspective on the Calvin and Hobbes dynamic, I give you “Hobbes and Bacon”, which is fan art based on the idea that Hobbes was passed down to Calvin’s daughter.
That’s great! Thank you!
Yeah, loved it.
Interesting Calvin married a girl who looks an awful lot like his mom.
Particularly given the juxtaposition of the first two frames in the second strip, I was wondering if it was Susie.
Personality is different, but maybe Calvin grew up and discovered Susie wasn’t so boring after all.
Yes, that blatantly says that these people are the same. It is obviously Susie.
I find the very last panel somewhat disturbing.
How did this guy not get sued???
It’s obviously Susie - the little girl’s first words mention Mr. Bun (Susie’s stuffed friend).
Probably because of the parody exclusion. Parodies are allowed under fair use.
Bill Watterson may also have preferred not to draw attention to it through the Streisand Effect.
This needs to be acknowledged. Good job, and a nice deep pop culture reference. (Monster-a-go-go, I believe, One of H G Lewis’ masterpieces.)
I noticed that. I wonder if Watterson did the same thing since he says he modeled Calvin’s mom after his own.
I completely agree. I had an active imaginary life as a child, and I identified with Hobbes, too. 
oh, good for her! I like Blueberries for Sal, too.
Blueberries for Sal was Robert McClosky (who also wrote/drew Make Way for Ducklings, One Morning in Maine, and several other beloved picture books), not Beverly Cleary.
I assume that as a one-off, and then another one-off years later, it is fairly safe.
If they had started up a new published series based on these characters, that would probably be a whole different story.
oops.
Change of plans. Too much to wade through. Some…interesting perspectives, which I guess was the best I could hope for. I think I’ll just quit while I’m ahead.
There is one last point I’d like to make, which is that while numerous comic strips have had terrible characters, in the main there’s never been any illusion about them being terrible. Garfield is lazy, greedy, and abusive, Dagwood Bumstead is incompetent and gluttonous, Lucy Van Pelt is overbearing and disturbingly violence-prone, the Lockhorns are walking dead, Cathy is nuts, etc. (On a side note, absolutely recommend this site; his humor and depth of knowledge in the face of constant bad art is truly something to behold.) I never felt a need to point any of it out because it’s been done numerous times, and the creators themselves have no illusions. Every time I read anything about Calvin and Hobbes, it’s magic, friendship, the innocence of youth, playfulness, hopes, dreams, and I ask myself, does anyone at all realize that Hobbes treats Calvin like utter crap? Who would want to be in Calvin’s position, having to take beatings, take insults, take BS, take bad advice, take condescension, and never being able to pay any of it back, and worse, have literally no one else in the world understand what you’re going through?
But at some point you just have to leave the mystery unsolved and move on to other things, so, thanks for the replies, everyone. (Similar to my “Am I the only person in the damn world who realizes how unpleasant Beavis and Butthead is to watch?” period, which you can search for on this board if you’re truly a glutton for punishment. Come to think of it, that was also a product of the 90’s.)
If you’re ahead when every single other poster disagrees with you, I wonder when you’d be behind?
(Okay, okay, I know, it’s just an expression.)
Still, it’s unusual to have such wide agreement about anything in CS.
The mystery of why you’re the only person in the world who is right, and everybody else is wrong? 
Seriously, though, you’re fully entitled to your opinion, but perhaps you should think about how your experiences have shaped your views of human interactions to be different from those of most people.
I think you are misreading Hobbes. Let me just take one point, the beatings:
My daughter used to “attack” me when we were reunited. She would run at me and hug me, with so much force that I warned her not to do that to my grandmother, because I was afraid she might literally break my grandmother’s bones.
It was just that she was physical and enthusiastic. She was expressing her love. THAT’S what Hobbes is doing when he greets Calvin. And Calvin isn’t a frail old lady, he’s a sturdy boy. He adores the attention and enthusiasm.
Origins
Watterson based some of Hobbes’ characteristics, especially his playfulness and attack instinct, on his own pet cat, Sprite.
The comic is Fight Club.
Hobbes is Tyler Durden.