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Bill Watterson and Calvin and Hobbes
Written by Jimmy
Kathy and I had the pleasure to go the same college at the inventor of the greatest cartoon strip of all time – Calvin and Hobbes. If you haven’t discovered it, start now. 5 points:
1. Watterson went to Kenyon College and was the cartoonist for our school paper. He was a year ahead andwhen he left he sold off the originals of his strips. I bought one and have lost it! Crap. Crap. Here’s the kind of stuff he was doing then:
2. My sophmore year, we lived in Caples. I was in a Suite with six friends and Bill was on the same floor in a double. We never saw him, but most Mondays there would be 2-3 empty bottles of booze outside his door waiting for pick up. So we figured he was having a good time.
3. He was a political philosophy major – thus Calvin, thus Hobbes. I was a political philosophy major. Some time I call the Swiss Bone Guitar ‘Aristotle.’
4. Here’s one of my favourite strips…
5. Here’s some links to great websites:
b. Top 25 Strips, with great commentary
Laters
Jimmy