Thanks for your thoughtful response. I share your fondness for The Far Side, but I'm less enthusiastic than you when it comes to Calvin & Hobbes, perhaps because I experienced childhood as a girl and not as a boy! A current cartoon I like is Bizarro by a guy named Piraro. He's a devout lefty, but his work is very clever. He has farmed out his weekday panel to another cartoonist and only draws his elaborate Sunday panels. The little numeral by his signature indicates the number of secret objects hidden in the panel -- the firecracker, the eyeball, the flying saucer. He puts these in all of his toons.
I have enjoyed some of the Piraro's work, because it tends to hit my funny bone in the same place.
And I understand fully why you wouldn't share Watterson's six year old boy viewpoint of the world.
But I suspect, if you ever did raise a six year old boy, you might fully understand the mother and father's perspective!
