6 Hilarious 'Calvin and Hobbes' Comics Where Calvin is a Weird Little Genius
Words and verbs and adjectives, painted up like a picture in these iconic Calvin and Hobbes comic strips..
Words and verbs and adjectives, painted up like a picture in these iconic Calvin and Hobbes comic strips.
The short version
- Calvin and Hobbes came along at just the right time to influence a generation of creators, many of whom would go on to create comic strips of their own.
- Alongside a couple of other seminal '90s newspaper comics like Bloom County/Outland , C&H 's linework, flexibility, and imagination visibly inspired many of the artists who worked in the 2000s webcomics boom.
- Over the course of rereading Calvin and Hobbes , however, I've come to wonder if we don't underrate its effect on 21st-century writing.
What happened
Right from the start of its run, one of Bill Watterson's favorite running jokes involved Calvin's vocabulary. Calvin is ostensibly six years old and a lousy student, but he talks like he was raised on a diet of Word of the Day calendars.
Why it matters
It’s had a distinct impact on the pop culture of the 21st century, as half the ‘90s kids who went on to become comedy writers and cartoonists have inherited Watterson’s love of vocabulary-based punchlines.
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