For fans of both Calvin and Frank Herbert's Dune, I give you Calvin & Muad'Dib: https://calvinanddune.tumblr.com/
This is the most unbelievably specific-to-my-personal-interests webcomic I've ever seen. I am stunned.
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#82“The last few years of the strip, and especially the Sundays, are the work I am the most proud of. This was close as I could get to my vision of what a comic strip should be.”
https://www.zenpencils.com/comic/128-bill-watterson-a-cartoo...
That must be the zenith of his career. Hope I can truly understand what he must have felt like when he said that.
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My wife and I aren’t having the greatest time reading them to our toddler (she’s probably too young for them, but she says she really likes them). Calvin’s parents don’t like him! I don’t like exposing her to parents who are resentful toward their kid. Also, shortly after he retired Bill Watterson ate at my dad’s restaurant. My dad recognized his name on the check, and told him how much of a fan I was. Bill then drew…
There are plenty of C&H strips that show his parents love him. This one comes to mind, but there are many others: https://i.redd.it/wgwm23u9k4sx.png Kids are not stupid and you don't need to insulate them from everything that isn't 100% happy, fluffy and wonderful. As a former kid who had loving parents and loved C&H, the only message I remember taking from the strip in this regard was that parents are people too and…
Thank you. I channel this particular strip often during my times working from home with kids.
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#84Calvin and Hobbes is fine, but I think Peanuts was better in capturing and commenting on human experience of clueless people trying to make sense of a dysmal world.
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I grew up on Calvin and Hobbes, but in retrospect it's not terribly surprising Bill Watterson eventually decided to fuck off into the woods.
My wife and I aren’t having the greatest time reading them to our toddler (she’s probably too young for them, but she says she really likes them). Calvin’s parents don’t like him! I don’t like exposing her to parents who are resentful toward their kid. Also, shortly after he retired Bill Watterson ate at my dad’s restaurant. My dad recognized his name on the check, and told him how much of a fan I was. Bill then drew…
Maybe you should wait until she is about 5 before judging how they cope lol
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I think he specifically does not want you to know what he thinks about these things.
Is it really a secret? Calvin and Hobbes contains a ton of relevant commentary. Just the amount of time Calvin spends outside tells you something. He probably would leave it as observation rather than presciption, like most humorists.
It's not secret, more like private. He quit because he didn't like being a celebrity and having people pry at his personal life.
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#88I learned so many words reading Calvin and Hobbes as a kid. Just off the top of my head: - "The pernicious poem place." - "Demonstrates defenestration." - The "salubrious" beats. - "Mainstream commercial nihilism can't be trusted?"
"A pair of pathetic peripatetics."
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Watterson could offer some biting social commentary, but towards the end of C&H's run he had also become a sort of curmudgeonly old man. For example, there are strips where he depicts modern art as being just as bunch of phoneys trying to hoodwink one another, but I know a few abstract artists personally and they are very sincere about the work they are creating (primarily for themselves, to scratch an inner itch), e…
Funky Winkerbean spent a couple decades being a humorous take on life in high school. Then it changed into a message strip about Important Issues, and I stopped reading it.
There's even a musical based on the high school version named "Funky Winkerbean's Homecoming" which probably would confuse readers of the current strip, as cancer, alcoholism, and suicide don't play a part.
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#90Slightly off topic: A shout-out from the wonderful Schlock Mercenary web comic: https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2019-04-08
(Context: Set in the 31st century. The lady who says "That was Watterson studied ancient Earth memetics.)