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Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes, was briefly considering an animated adaptation of his comic, mainly because he loved animation and noted that there's a lot of timing gags you can't do in a comic. Then he realized the voices of the characters would inevitably fail to match the voices in the readers' heads, so he decided against it.

Let's say ITTL, either in the late eighties or early nineties, an animated C&H special is made by either Bill Melendez or Film Roman. More specials are made after that, before an animated series is created in the mid to late nineties.

Who would voice the characters? What effects would it have on the comic? Would the strip last longer? Would it end up being overmarketed like Peanuts and Garfield were, which is the very thing Watterson wanted to avoid happening to his work?
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