Bill Watterson is an American cartoonist, author of the famous “Calvin and Hobbes” comics published from 1985 to 1995. In these stories, Calvin is a creative boy full of childish pranks, and along with Hobbes, a stuffed tiger with deep thoughts, they are both examples of existentialism in comics. Through Calvin's desperate choices and decisions in many circumstances of the stories, he struggles against an ever-changing world. The characters' actions portray the disorder of humanity; people who are controlled into a worthless lifestyle against an unforgiving nature, a cruel world and inevitable death. Through these modern comics, Bill Watterson created Calvin as a unique character in contrast to any average six-year-old. lad. Likewise, John Calvin is the character's full name, a reference to the Protestant John Calvin, who led the Christian Reformation in 1536, breaking away from tradition to adopt more unorthodox doctrines, such as predestination and justification by faith alone. Regardless, Calvin's character becomes a mischievous, self-indulgent boy, forced to make desperate choices to rebel against the world. Calvin wants to explain to people that in reality it is not the problems of life and the multiple philosophies that matter, but the kind of people we are. Making a choice about how people act and react, against the world majority – represented by his father in the comic – is much more important than simply agreeing to take, or simply continuing to think (The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book). every person is totally free and entirely responsible for what he becomes or does” said Jean-Paul Sartre, an existentialist (Existentialism is a humanism). People began to sympathize with Ca...... middle of paper ...... ways, and Bill Watterson's work of "Calvin and Hobbes" constitutes a true example of existentialism (Calvin and Hobbes and the Moral Sense : A Farewell).Works CitedMairet, Philip. “Existentialism is a humanism.” Jean-Paul Sartre, 1946. Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre, ed. Walter Kaufman, Meridian Publishing Company, 1989. February 2005. Web. March 12, 2012. May, Rollo. “Existential psychology”. New York: Random House, 1961. Web. March 12, 2012. Official site for Calvin and Hobbes comics from 1985 to 1996 by Bill Watterson. Network. March 16, 2012.Watterson, Bill. “The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book.” Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1995. Web. March 12, 2012. Wilson, James Q. “Calvin and Hobbes and the Moral Sense: A Farewell.” 1995. Network. March 14, 2012. Zunjic, Dr. Bob. “The Humanism of Existentialism II.” Jean Paul Sartre, 1946. Web. 12 March. 2012.