Most are outrageously funny I found myself grinning from ear to ear. There are only 5 characters: 4 y/o Calvin his stuff toy tiger and lone playmate Hobbes who in Calvin's wild imagination can turn into a live precocious and sometimes silly tiger Suzie who is a girl reaching out for Calvin but gets bullied by Calvin because he seems to be contented playing with Hobbes and there is a stage in a boy's life when girls are yucky Calvin's father and Calvin's mother.Įven if there are only 5 characters, the small situations that Bill Watterson created in the comics strips sour high. Witty and funny with colorful well-drawn images. You cannot go wrong with Bill Watterson and Calvin & Hobbes. It makes me a little sad and more than a little nostalgic as I have fond memories of reading the Sunday comics as a kid. Considering that he published this book in 1989, I can only imagine what he would say today. In a short “Afterward” Bill Watterson laments the “retrograde evolution” of the Sunday comics as an institution and art from. The text also features all 4 seasons, so you see a variety of Watterson’s visual talent on display as well.
Especially appealing (visually) are the strips featuring the Intrepid Spaceman Spiff and his interplanetary adventures.
People forget that Watterson was a gifted artist, and a very talented atmospheric illustrator. “The Calvin & Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book” is an all-color collection of some of the Sunday strips that Bill Watterson created.
“There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.”
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