Word: comical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bill Waterson's strip about a hyperactive kid and his overactive imagination is a neo-comic strip. It has all the conventional characters--suburban parents, a smart-aleck kid, a female foil and a school bully. It's wrapped in a clean, cute art style. And it's funny...
...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...
...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...
...will have annual revenues of more than $10 billion and a market value of $18 billion. It would combine Time's magazines and its hardcover-book publishing, its cable programming and its cable-TV operations with Warner's movie, TV and video production, music labels, cable systems, paperbacks and comic books. The new company would include not only Time's stable of talented journalists, spread over two dozen magazines, but also Warner's Mad magazine, Superman comics and such recording artists as Madonna and U2. The businesses are thus related, but largely complementary. "This is the first merger...