But I don't want this comic to be about the kids, I want it to be about Calvin. I want to see Calvin as a Dad, and I want his son (or daughter) with a beaten up, super ratty, devilish-as-ever Hobbes.
Now that I am forty, and I have a precocious little Calvin of my own making explosive sounds with his mouth as he blows up his LEGO creations (as I write this, in fact), and my little Calvin’s twin sister, who happens to be a lot like Susie, I would love it if you came out of retirement and gave us just one year of Calvin and Hobbes and Son (or Daughter). It was also a fabulous way to relax my brain (though not too much) amidst all the literature I was devouring at a frightening rate.īut I have a request.
My youthful imaginary friends were still fresh in my mind, and my current imaginary friends were just taking hold, and your strip gave me something to relate to, someone to cheer for, a place where it was okay to turn dreary realties of the world into exciting fantasies and be proud of that ability all at the same time. I was fourteen when you started your opus, and I was close enough to my own hyper-imaginative childhood to connect at a visceral level. There's implied sadness in the explicit joy you gave us, and it makes Calvin and Hobbes a true masterpiece. Your precocious Calvin was what every kid with an overactive imagination is in their own heads, but you also gave us the view of what the rest of the world sees in these kids and does to try and beat the imagination out of them. I can't believe it's been gone for 16 years now. Urn:isbn:0740745417 Republisher_date 20180706085551 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1240 Scandate 20180704082235 Scanner Scanningcenter hongkong Shipping_container SZ0025 Tts_version v1.Your decade long run of Calvin and Hobbes was the greatest run of any comic strip in the history of comic strips, and you made the right choice putting an end to it when you did. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:55:46.564803 Bookplateleaf 0006 Boxid IA1260814 Boxid_2 CH129925 City Kansas City, MO DonorĪllen_county Edition 11.
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