![]() ![]() Lewis’s apprentice devil in The Screwtape Letters), he may be dreaming of fleeing from aliens in other galaxies. Often, Calvin’s imagination represents a more exciting, more marvelous vision of the world around him instead of listening in class to Miss Wormwood (herself named for C. Calvin’s first appearance was actually in a rejected strip from before Calvin and Hobbes called Critturs, in which he is the younger brother of the main character the syndicate suggested he focus on this sibling instead, and that led to the creation of his flagship comic. The strip follows Calvin, a blonde six-year-old American that Watterson named after the founder of Calvinism. ![]() Space, broadly speaking, is what defines Calvin and Hobbes. Not all newspaper comics are like this, of course, particularly the more complex narrative comics of the past like Little Nemo in Slumberland or Terry and the Pirates, and the worst comics-of which there are many-retain that sense of sameness by being formulaic and uninspired. Newspaper comics, he wrote, provide a unique space for many readers before they start their day we get to pass, briefly, through a door into a calmer, simpler world, where the characters often remain largely the same, even down to their clothing. Space provides the tempo and rhythm of the strip.” Watterson was right, perhaps in more ways than he knew. “To an editor,” Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes, wrote in 2001, “space may be money, but to a cartoonist, space is time. ![]()
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