Word: yukon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yukon Ho!, a collection of 274 strips from late 1987 and early 1988, shows an artist still testing his limits. The strip's previous collections have been fixtures on The New York Times bestseller list, and Watterson's duo is at or near star status. Most readers are now familiar enough with the stuffed-tiger device that Watterson can approach it from some wonderful new angles...
...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...
...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...
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...