1) I do not like Calvin and Hobbes. I think it’s a remnant from a bygone era and an idealized memory of childhood from many adults out there. I think that a childhood as portrayed by the Nickelodeon Cartoon Show: Fairly Odd Parents is a much more accurate representation of a current child’s life. I think it also has more wit than C&H.
2) Bill Watterson draws Calvin. Calvin builds snowmen that look alive but are inanimate. I draw snowmen. These snowmen look alive because they are animate. They have their own worries, concerns, fears, plans, plots, thoughts and emotions. They react and adapt to their environment. They do not bend to the whim of a Creator (Calvin) unless they are religious (Snow-God).
4) A snowman with a tongue? Where does Calvin get the tongues?
5) If you’ve noticed, I’m not much of an actual artist. Bill has me beat very soundly in this department. I take a minimalist approach. I draw what I can, and take a stab at more complicated things. For now any people I draw will be stick-figures. However, I rarely involve humans in my comics so this should not be very much of an issue. In fact, as I write this I don’t think I have any comics with humans set to run for a few months.
6) Medium. Newspaper vs. Internet.
7) I recognize that C&H is a very long-standing, revered comic. I admire the fact that they made a snowman thought-experiment cartoon mini-series. Now please don’t ask me about Calvin and Hobbes. Thank you.
8)Here is a pretty good dissection of Calvin and Hobbes.
And here is a Robot Chicken parody of Calvin and Hobbes.
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