Why the Short-Lived Calvin and Hobbes Is Still One of the Most Beloved & Influential Comic Strips | Open Culture
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What Jamie wrote
We have The Complete Calvin and Hobbes with every frame of the comic strip in it. I've read parts of it, but Tyler has read the entire four volumes actually multiple times. He thoroughly enjoyed it. There is something truly special about Calvin and Hobbes.
Being six years old has its pleasures, to be sure, but it also comes with strong doses of tedium, powerlessness, and futility, which we tend not to acknowledge as adults. _Calvin and Hobbes _showed me, as it's shown so many young readers, that there's a way out: not through studiousness, not through politeness, and certainly not through following the rules, but through the power of the imagination to re-enchant daily life. If it gets you sent to your room once in a while, that's a small price to pay.
I think I need to read them all the way through too…