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...because it presents a family turned inside out by Calvin's imagination. The symbol of that inversion is Hobbes, a stuffed tiger who comes to life for Calvin. It is a device as old as "The Nutcracker," and it is a powerful way to blur the lines between reality and cartoon reality and cartoon imagination...
...comic strip must have a twist if it's going to pierce the today's national consciousness. "Tiger" is simply a comic strip, with funny kids delivering one-liners, and it will never have best-selling collections like "Calvin and Hobbes," "Doonesbury" (where the gimmick is politics) or "The Far Side" (where the gimmick is weirdness...
...strips from late 1987 and early 1988, shows an artist still testing his limits. The strip's previous collections have been fixtures on The New York Times bestseller list, and Watterson's duo is at or near star status. Most readers are now familiar enough with the stuffed-tiger device that Watterson can approach it from some wonderful new angles...
...Because think of it--the nation goes crazy over the greatest upset in the NCAA tourney. The mighty Hoyas fall to the less-than-mighty Tigers. Tigermania in March. Kit Mueller commercials. Bob Scrabis sneakers. Sen. Bill Bradley, ex-Tiger legend, will proclaim on the floor of the Senate how American the NCAA tournament...
...that's the bad news. The good news is that the women won, nay dominated, the four matches following the Tiger loss. They pummeled Brown, 8-1, Dartmouth, 9-0, and Franklin & Marshall...