Word: calvinism
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...asked me what a "television sitcom" was. I told it about "The Cosby Show." It asked me what an "action-adventure movie" was, and I pointed it to "Raiders of the Lost Ark." It wanted to know about newspaper comic strips, and I showed it the latest collection of "Calvin and Hobbes," Yukon...
...because it presents a family turned inside out by Calvin's imagination. The symbol of that inversion is Hobbes, a stuffed tiger who comes to life for Calvin. It is a device as old as "The Nutcracker," and it is a powerful way to blur the lines between reality and cartoon reality and cartoon imagination...
...comic strip must have a twist if it's going to pierce the today's national consciousness. "Tiger" is simply a comic strip, with funny kids delivering one-liners, and it will never have best-selling collections like "Calvin and Hobbes," "Doonesbury" (where the gimmick is politics) or "The Far Side" (where the gimmick is weirdness...
...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...
...sodas in an afternoon and evening. He claimed they were half strength. He never lost control, just looked stunned. He quit cold turkey in the White House, switching to Fresca and root beer. For whatever reason, his presidency went downhill thereafter. White House abstinence was tried by Rutherford Hayes, Calvin Coolidge and Jimmy Carter. Results were dismal...