A look into the adoration and reluctance of Bill Watterson, the creator of the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, which captured the world from a child's point of view.
Few American cartoonists are as adored as Bill Watterson , or as reluctant to embrace that adoration. In 1985, Watterson began publishing Calvin and Hobbes, his syndicated newspaper comic strip about a mischievous Midwestern 6-year-old and his best friend, who is either a talking tiger or a stuffed animal, depending on who does the looking.
Watterson deftly and wittily captured the world from a child’s point of view: Calvin’s classroom daydreams become the episodic adventures of his alter egos, Spaceman Spiff and Tracer Bullet (themselves clever parodies of Flash Gordon- and Dick Tracy-style serials), while Calvin’s precocious interactions with, say, his father are opportunities for hilarious misinformation. (His father tells him that babies come from assembly kits at Sears but that Calvin was a “Blue-Light Special” at Kmart, “almost as good, and a lot cheaper.”) Something about Calvin and Hobbes’s mixture of escapism and profundity touched many peopl
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