Charlie Brown (left, foreground) grimacing while Calvin and Hobbes play in the background (right.)
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson was never shy about how indebted he was a cartoonist to Charles Schulz, the groundbreaking artist behind Peanuts – something a biography of Schulz essentially distills down to two critical lessons Watterson took from the older artist. By looking at both, readers can develop a clearer sense of why Peanuts and its creator were monolithic in the comic industry for so long.
Peanuts Creator Charles Schulz Was A Huge Influence On Calvin and Hobbes Bill Watterson's Number One Creative Inspiration Close Though Calvin and Hobbes diverged stylistically from Peanuts during its run, Watterson attributed his fundamental understanding of humor to Schulz's strip. Though Calvin and Hobbes diverged stylistically from Peanuts during its run, Watterson attributed his fundamental understanding of humor to Schulz's strip. Ultimately, this was one of two major ways in which Bill Watterson's contributions to the comic medium were defined by Calvin and Hobbes relationship to Peanuts.
In other words, Watterson took the idea from Peanuts that humor could be simple and straightforward, without being banal or meaningless. He would go on to apply this "emotional edge" with great effectiveness throughout Calvin and Hobbes – a strip that regularly showed as much reverence toward life as it did irreverance toward parental control.
Bill Watterson Refused To View Cartoons As A Commercial Product An Artistic Principle Close As much as Bill Watterson learned the fundamentals of success as a comic writer from Charles Schulz, once Calvin and Hobbes achieved its own iconic status, its creator defined his approach to the industry in stark contrast to what Schulz managed with Peanuts .
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