Enemy fighters at two o'clock! Roger. What should I do until then? |
Experience is food for the brain. |
From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way. |
Genius is never understood in its own time. |
Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery. |
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die. |
Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess. |
Heck, what's a little extortion among friends? |
Hobbes got all my better qualities (with a few quirks from our cats), and Calvin my ranting, escapist side. Together, they're pretty much a transcript of my mental diary ... it's pretty startling to reread these strips and see my personality exposed so plainly right there on paper. I meant to disguise that better. |
Hobbes might be a little closer to me in terms of personality, with Calvin being more energetic, brash, always looking for life on the edge. He lives entirely in the present, and whatever he can do to make that moment more exciting he'll just let fly . . . and I'm really not like that at all. |
Hobbes: Do you think there's a God? Calvin: Well, SOMEBODY'S out to get me. |
Hobbes: Do you think there's a God? Calvin: Well, SOMEBODY'S out to get me. |
I didn't want 'Calvin and Hobbes' to coast into halfhearted repetition, as so many long-running strips do. I was ready to pursue different artistic challenges, work at a less frantic pace ... and start restoring some balance to my life. |
I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations. |
I hate to subject it to too much analysis, but one thing I have fun with is the rarity of things being shown from an adult's perspective. When Hobbes is a stuffed toy in one panel and alive in the next, I'm juxtaposing the "grown-up" version of reality with Calvin's version, and inviting the reader to decide which is truer. Most of the time, the strip is drawn simply from Calvin's perspective, and Hobbes is as real as anyone. |