Although it lasted for only ten years (1985-1995), “Calvin and Hobbes” by Bill Watterson was, in my opinion, the greatest comic strip ever produced. The wisdom, the hilarity, the poignancy, the absurdity — that strip had it all.
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@breadandcircuses
A great comic. And it stopped before it jumped the shark. But the commentary here is kind of wooden and overexplaining. I hate to say it, but it feels AI.
@breadandcircuses My nephew was 7 when the column ended. He wrote a letter to the editor of the Hartford Courant asking them to figure out how to keep it. And, on the first morning it didn’t show up, he cried.
@breadandcircuses@nathandh and to create something that captured the popular imagination like that - such a good example of how vital compelling stories and characters are to our humanity and dreams for social change
I gave my 11 year old the complete set for Christmas last year. He took them into his room and pretty much only came out for food and to say hi. You’d walk past his door for a couple of days and hear him giggling uncontrollably. He just read one after the other until he’d read them all.