Word: calvinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...League players have actually gone on to be professional stars. The most notable Ivy League product is probably Yale's Calvin Hill, a standout for the Dallas Cowboys and the Washington Redskins...
...Sunday strip, Calvin is a God who condemns humans to the under-world in a stark series of panels, and in the last we are jolted back to comic strip form to hear his father say, "Have you seen how absorbed Calvin is with those tinkertoys? He's creating whole worlds over there...
...book is full of such leaps from the cosmos to suburbia and back again. Watterson's watercolor treatment of Calvin's alternate realities is striking in the Sunday comics sections of America, but, unfortunately, Yukon Ho! has no color. Instead of a blue insect head, we get a shade of grey. Instead of a rainbow of colored clothes pouncing on Calvin one morning, we see a few black and white objects flying at him. The strips are still funny, but they lose much of their artistry. No comic strip in the last 20 years has used color so well...
...imagination on display here is Watterson's, not Calvin's. Watterson became an editorial cartoonist in Cincinnati after graduating from Kenyon College, and even then his cartoons had an element of the fantastic in them. He has shown a dozen worlds that Calvin inhabits, and often the joy in the strip comes from simply being on an alien planet with Calvin, instead of laughing at his wisecracks...
Like Walt Kelly's "Pogo," Watter-son's strip deals in aggregate humor, drawn from the characters more than the individual jokes. Reading "Calvin and Hobbes" in book form is much more fun and revealing than reading it day by day. And Yukon Ho! is a goldmine of a collection...