Short little five panel stories made us laugh, think, cry, and possibly change our ways. But before a lot of people even read a comic book chronicling the tales of Superman, Spider-Man, or Batman, they more than likely had perused the funnies in the newspaper (even if that paper was only being used for pumpkin carving or papier-mâché). We talk a lot about superhero comics here on The Nerdd. There is something so special about Calvin and Hobbes that can teach us a lot about life. All the other Sunday comic strips seemed dull, stale, or too grown-up for me as a kid when compared to Calvin and Hobbes. Since that young period of my life, I have looked back at Bill Watterson’s creation with immense nostalgia and affection. Even though Calvin and Hobbes had been running for more than twenty years at that point, kids were still reading it, and my mom had a great amount of fondness for the adventures that these two characters went on. At my elementary school library, the stars had to be aligned in order to get a Calvin and Hobbes book checked out since they were so popular. I was amazed to find a collection of Calvin and Hobbes comic strips in my basement and spent a great deal of time each night slowly chipping my way through the books. Short comic strips about a young boy with his stuffed tiger (who in Calvin’s mind was as real as any other talking anthropomorphic tiger).
When I was a kid, I had heard tell of a a comic called Calvin and Hobbes. For all their seeming simplicity, the expressive possibilities of comics rival those of any other art form.
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