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Calvin & Hobbes

= = =Whenever I have a bad day, or things just don't go my way, I turn to my favorite, book marked page of this Calvin and Hobbes strip and smile. Some days even your lucky Rocketship underpants don't help- how much simpler could such a complicated truth get ? That's the beauty of Calvin and Hobbes, the genius of Bill Waterson and one of the many reasons that the strip is and forever will be considered an American classic (more specifically the number one comic strip of all time) of literature, philosophy, and of course, comics. Moreover, the strip's comedic genius is applicable to virtually anything; there's always that perfect math teacher that posts Hobbes' theory of imaginary numbers in his room (AKA Coz), the Economics teacher with Calvin's supply and demand or war theories posted to his wall, and the devoted reader with collection upon collection on his or her bedside table. This quote, by Charles M. Schulz, I think perfectly sums up the classic, lighthearted but insightful, perfectly illustrated comedy that is Calvin and Hobbes.=

==//"Bill Watterson draws wonderful bedside tables. I admire that. He also draws great water splashes and living room couches and chairs and lamps and yawns and screams, and all the things that make a comic strip fun to look at. I like the thin little arms on Calvin and his shoes that look like dinner rolls.//== ==//Drawing in a comic strip is infinitely more important than we may think, for our medium must compete with other entertainments, and if a cartoonist does nothing more than illustrate a joke, he or she is going to lose.//== ==//Calvin and Hobbes, however, contains hilarious pictures that cannot be duplicated in other mediums. In short, it is fun to look at, and that is what has made Bill's work such an admirable success."//==