Why Do I Rock?

Calvin & Hobbes was my reason to even look in the paper.

Don’t get me wrong, I read a lot of the other comics, too. But Calvin & Hobbes was it. That was the comic.

Day in and day out, that’s the one that had me going. And it was so much more than it just being funny, or really well drawn, or that it made me think about the world in a different way…

It did all three, consistently.

A lot of people talk about being great artists. Bill Watterson delivered.

I just watched “Dear Mr Watterson“, a documentary I just found on Netflix. It came out in 2013, I guess.

Between that, and the documentary “Stripped“, and then this, I feel like weighing in on the subject. Just to kind of geek out a little over all the memories that strip brings up.

I mean, really, who doesn’t like Calvin & Hobbes? Like, no one, or near enough to no one. I’m sure there are people out there who will say it’s over rated or whatever, but those people are wrong. It’s seriously the most fun you could possibly have had in the 90’s.

I’m going to go back to how it made me think more. This strip didn’t really open my eyes, but it did reaffirm to me that I wasn’t crazy. That there were other people out in the world somewhere who felt the same way I did.

Like this one, for instance….

Calvin & Hobbes

Here is a prime example of how I felt at the time… People didn’t really think about comics as art back in the 90’s.

Well, the majority, anyway.

These days, it’s harder to find those people. I don’t really know any, personally.

* Ok, that’s a pretty bold claim. But it is really, really good. One of the best.