Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat ) Library Binding Author: Visit Amazon's Bill Watterson Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0606000992 | Format: EPUB
Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat ) Library Binding Description
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[A] wry collection. DAILY MAIL
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About the Author
Bill Watterson is the creator of
Calvin and Hobbes, one of the most popular and well-regarded cartoon strips of the twentieth century.
Calvin and Hobbes appeared in newspapers from November 1985 until Watterson's retirement in 1996.
Online:
gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/
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- Series: Calvin and Hobbes (Pb)
- Library Binding: 176 pages
- Publisher: Turtleback (September 1, 1994)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0606000992
- ISBN-13: 978-0606000994
- Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 11.7 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes seems to be one of the last of the great newspaper strip panel comics. It's hilarious while also being insightful, poignant, and bitingly satirical. As most readers know, since Watterson has written it elsewhere, Calvin is named after John Calvin "a sixteenth century theologian who beleived in predestination". Hobbes also has a famous historical namesake in Thomas Hobbes, the seventeeth century author of "Leviathan" whose most famous saying is that life in a state of nature would be "Nasty, brutish, and short". From such a foundation, readers can expect more than a wacky strip full of slapstick, puns and sitcom-type pet or baby humor. There is much more, because Calvin and Hobbes, like all of the great comic strips, has depth. Reading just a handful of strips reveals this.
This collection from 1994 includes a great satire on conceptual art (Calvin tries to sell Hobbes a landscape in a Sunday strip); a great satire on corporate philosophy (Calvin ends up telling his mother that he needs to be subsidized); Hobbes sends Calvin anonymous insults in the mail ("Most people have secret admirers, you have a secret detractor"); "Stupendous Man" invades Calvin's class to take an exam in Calvin's place (he still flunks); one of the best is a single panel strip in which Calvin asks his parents "What assurance do I have that your parenting isn't screwing me up?"; There are also loads of Watterson's great Sunday strips. Watterson is definitely one of the last cartoonist artists that fully appreciated the boundaries (or lack of them) of the color Sunday strip. Calvin's imagined dinosaurs, aliens, parodies of "Judge Parker" type strips, and multicolor tiger battles are amazing works of cartoon art.
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