Rejected numerous times, he was finally picked up by Universal Press Syndicate after modifying the strip he was writing to better reflect the popularity of two minor characters,the titular Calvin and his stuffed tiger, Hobbes. The inception of the strip came while Watterson was working at an advertising firm, and was cartooning in his spare time.
Hailed as being interesting and complex enough for adults, but containing humor and wit that a child could understand, it was a breakthrough cross-generational strip that pleased both demographics without becoming patronizing or pretentious.
Telling the tale of a hyperactive, precocious six year old boy, Calvin, and his laconic, anthropomorphic stuffed tiger, Hobbes. The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary BookĬalvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages, 1985-1995Ĭreated by Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes have long been a mainstay in American newspapers, and have been published in syndication since the cancellation of the strip in 1995. WE see Calvin run away to the Yukon (the main storyarc in Yukon, Ho!), suffer a rain-filled camping trip, and wax eloquent about how great it is to have nothing to do all summer - and to lament that Sundays in August are terrible because they remind him that school will be starting again soon.Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons
Considering that the cover showed a glorious scene of the pair sledding down one of their favourite inclines, I assumed that this collection would have a lot of seasonal winter content and yet I feel like the majority of the stories took place in summer! Watterson does cover all four seasons (mud in spring, crisp leaves in Autumn, mutant snowmen in winter, and the long days of summer), but the stories which stuck out in the collection were definitely of the summer variety. This compendium collects two of the Calvin and Hobbes books, but even though we have already seen these mini stories before it is good to get a regular reminder about childlike living from the wise (yet strange) minds of this small boy and his pet tiger.
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