On Dec 13, 2008, at 4:33 AM, Claes Wallin wrote:
> Dave Land wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> Bill Watterson is a certifiable genius:
>>
>> http://budurl.com/5c72
>>
>> Published more than a dozen years ago (I don't have my son's box set
>> handy to check the exact date).
>>
>> I sure miss that comic strip.
>
> Excellent. That's just excellent. Genius is the word indeed.
>
> Who enjoyed it more, your son or you? ;-)
It's a tie, for sure. After buying the box set for him last Christmas,
we read it from cover to cover (to cover to cover, to cover to cover:
all three volumes) over the space of about six months. I hadn't seen
every cartoon when Watterson was still drawing them, so some parts
were brand new to both of us.
Amazing that a comic strip about a six-year-old and his imaginary
tiger can bring so much joy, and even a tear or two along the way.
Watterson steadfastly refused to allow his creation to be licensed,
but the first Christmas strip -- when Calvin and Hobbes had been
running only a month and a week -- really should have been turned
into a card:
http://budurl.com/6h46
Dave
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