Calvin and Hobbes Redux
Calvin and Hobbes is in my top three of my all time favorite comic strips. It’s too bad that Bill Watterson decided to stop drawing it 10 years ago at the height of its popularity.
This past Tuesday, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes was released. Every Calvin and Hobbes strip ever printed is included, along with it comes days of laughter.
The other day, The Washington Post had a great review and retrospect on the strip and its “normal guy” author Watterson.
“People still remember because it was never worse than good, and was often simply brilliant. It parodied the issues of the day, the materialism, the greed-is-good cynicism, the pointlessness of television, the rampaging egos, the growing crassness of public intercourse, the bad behavior, our infinitesimal place in the universe. There was also time for snacks and a bedtime story.” ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ is probably one of the last great American comic strips,” says Dirk Deppey, editor of the Comics Journal.”
I miss reading new stories of Calvin’s favorite cereal Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs and his day dreaming escape from math class via alter-ego’s Captain Napalm, Stupendous Man and Spaceman Spiff. Hopefully someday Watterson will decide to bring it back. It’s fun to dream.
Picture credit: (Bill Watterson/Universal Press Syndicate)
