i hope bill watterson is doing okay and is proud of all the children he radicalized with this stuff

we are all calvin's dad now

towards the end he was basically just daring the syndicate to fire him before he quit and it rules

like the one where calvin fucks with the chewing magazine survey data is no shit how i handle every single attempt at data mining from companies these days, facebook is quite certain i'm 112 years old and tries to sell me depends when i bother checking it at all

and on a different note it was also profoundly beautiful on occasion

"i'm gonna start this strip with an intricately drawn dead sparrow and have my characters posit on the fragility of existence and it's gonna run directly beneath snuffy smith and a little to the left of dagwood eating a giant sandwich"

oh that dagwood, him love tasty big sandwich

meanwhile

i could go on at length about what an incredible fucking artist watterson was but it really speaks for itself, there's still nothing else that even comes close visually as far as daily strips go and the last one that was this fun to look at before c&h was probably pogo

(of course the dailies have died out along with the newspapers and they were killing them anyway which is half of why watterson quit so it's not like anybody's really even had a shot)

i've talked about what a wonderful gift it was that kurt cobain talked up all of his favourite bands so kids in shitty little backwaters like me could go out and look for them, and watterson did much the same with pogo, krazy kat, little nemo etc in that 10th anniversary book

growing up especially pre-internet people doing that kind of thing was just invaluable