'Calvin and Hobbes' Creator Keeps Privacy

Associated Press ^ | October 22, 2005 | Joe Milicia

[E Rocc]

Dilbert isn't a comic strip. It's a documentary.

The first answer on every single Scott Adams FAQ is "No, I didn't work at your company".

-Eric

[Appalled but Not Surprised]

Dilbert isn't a comic strip. It's a documentary.>>>

Truth.

Somebody has to do a comic strip about living in the ninth circle of a large law firm. Please!

[Jeremiah Jr]

The Tower of Babel

Genesis 11:4 And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”

Kabbalah and String theory line up in a number of ways. One link is the existence of Alternate Dimensions (tearing and repairing the fabric of space can be so messy), which is what the City/Tower builders were trying to access (let that sink in).

Jacob accessed one…

Genesis 28:12 Then he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven; and there the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.

Thru a dream…

Oh, and don’t miss the Calvin and Hobbes at the link.

[Jhensy]

Am I the only one who knows that Chagrin Falls, OH was also the home of another great American humorist, Doug Kenney? Founder, leading light and genius of the National Lampoon, co-writer of Animal House and Caddyshack, best known for playing Stork in AH?

[TChris]

Do you folks remember Tumbleweeds?

That was one of my favorites, as well as Bloom County. :-)

[Charles Henrickson]

Am I the only one who knows that Chagrin Falls, OH was also the home of another great American humorist, Doug Kenney?

I think it's also the home of the comedian Tim Conway.

[Jhensy]

I think it's also the home of the comedian Tim Conway.

Man, what's in the water there? Three comic geniuses!

[stacytec]

Hehehe, I never get tired of that one!

[Thinkin' Gal]

Oh, and don’t miss the Calvin and Hobbes at the link.

"I thought you got a 'D' in math"

Better than an "F" in history!

[AppyPappy]

The Family Circus is merely refigerator fodder. Garfield is just rehashed lameness.

[Little Ray]

I liked Bloom County better.

Calvin and Hobbes was sad in way; Calvin was alone except for his tiger.

[shuckmaster]

read the books of the first decade, when Schultz actually wrote and drew them Schultz was a lonely and isolated artist who wrote and drew every single one of the Peanuts strips and rarely had to insert a stockpile gag to keep up. The ones in the papers now are reprints.

The thing that makes Peanuts so classic is that nearly all the characters came to represent different moods of the creator himself. Charley represents Schultz's self view as the good hearted person who never seems to get a break. Linus represents the philosophical person who never gets over his personal insecurities. Snoopy represents the creator's fantasies and daydreams. To be a WW1 fighter pilot or a pro hockey player or later, just a cool dude hanging out in the desert incognito. Lucy represents the harsh realist who knows it's just a comic strip and points out the unrealistic flaws of the other characters/moods. It was only when he was trying to free himself from being too personal that he brought Peppermint Patty and Sally in to get it back to being more of a children's gag a day strip but, even those characters took on aspects of Schultz's mood. From this perspective probably the most important character is Schroeder who ignores the other characters and focuses purely on playing the piano just as Schultz has to get past his many moods and focus on getting the daily strip drawn on time even when Lucy, the reality, woos him and Snoopy, the out of control daydreamer, dances on his notes.