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There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
As someone who has multiple Calvin and Hobbes books, this just makes me love them even more. You done good, Bill. You done good.
I thinks folks expressing incredulity at the quality of the writing and composition in Calvin and Hobbes are often missing the context that Bill Watterson is arguably the most influential sequential artist of his generation. Like, this is a guy who once told the editors of nationally syndicated newspapers to go fuck themselves when they wanted to mess with his panel layouts, and not only did he keep his job, he got his way. He could have had literally any gig he wanted, and he chose to be the Sunday funnies guy because that's what made him happy. He's basically the Weird Al of sequential art.
I grew up reading Calvin & Hobbes, and one of my favorite running jokes was the snowmen that Calvin would build.
My favorite genre of self-portrait is cartoonists being bothered by their characters while trying to draw
Bill Watterson – Calvin and Hobbes (1986)
Hergé – Tintin (1947, Tintin Magazine)
Albert Uderzo – Asterix (the cover of Uderzo l'Irreductible (2018), but originally much older)
Jeff Smith – Bone (1993, Bone Holiday Special)
Walt Kelly – Pogo (1950, Maclean's Magazine)
And a bonus:
Berkeley Breathed – Bloom County
Moments like this reminds me of what an influence Calvin and Hobbes was to me.
Fyi, naming characters is my biggest struggle, so when I see "Tracer Bullet" I get insanely jealous.
