Word: watterson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strip in this collection, Susie Derkins asks if she and her stuffed bunny can play with Calvin and Hobbes, who is drawn as a stuffed tiger until the last panel, when he muses, "Mr. Bun seems comatose. Did you notice?" It is tantalizing to wonder if Watterson will ever give us a look at Susie and a "live" rabbit looking back at Calvin...
...cartoonist who craves Calvin and Hobbes but knows that all strips must one day fall flat, I worry that Watterson will start creating a series of new personas for Calvin without improving either the presentation of those characters or the psychological depth of Calvin. Yukon Ho! focuses on the presentation more than showing a more human side to Calvin, but the approach is still fresh...
...last year, Calvin has invented his Stupendous Man persona, and Watterson has manipulated it to begin showing us Life With Calvin from non-Calvin eyes...
...book is full of such leaps from the cosmos to suburbia and back again. Watterson's watercolor treatment of Calvin's alternate realities is striking in the Sunday comics sections of America, but, unfortunately, Yukon Ho! has no color. Instead of a blue insect head, we get a shade of grey. Instead of a rainbow of colored clothes pouncing on Calvin one morning, we see a few black and white objects flying at him. The strips are still funny, but they lose much of their artistry. No comic strip in the last 20 years has used color so well...
...imagination on display here is Watterson's, not Calvin's. Watterson became an editorial cartoonist in Cincinnati after graduating from Kenyon College, and even then his cartoons had an element of the fantastic in them. He has shown a dozen worlds that Calvin inhabits, and often the joy in the strip comes from simply being on an alien planet with Calvin, instead of laughing at his wisecracks...