Word: calvins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...cartoonist who craves Calvin and Hobbes but knows that all strips must one day fall flat, I worry that Watterson will start creating a series of new personas for Calvin without improving either the presentation of those characters or the psychological depth of Calvin. Yukon Ho! focuses on the presentation more than showing a more human side to Calvin, but the approach is still fresh...
...last year, Calvin has invented his Stupendous Man persona, and Watterson has manipulated it to begin showing us Life With Calvin from non-Calvin eyes...
...strip we see Calvin's father reading quietly, when Calvin runs into the room, deflects an imaginary bullet off his chest near his dad and then runs off again. The strip is done with only four words and with the father's viewpoint in mind, and it succeeds...