Happy birthday Bill Watterson, 52 today.
The ODT has always had good comic strips. Among the current ones is Calvin & Hobbes to which anyone who has a child, or has been a child, will relate.
However, my enjoyment of the cartoons isn’t confined to six times a week in the paper. I am fortunate to own the three volume Complete Calvin & Hobbes which brings me fresh amusement each time I open it.
Calvin: MUM! WAKE UP! COME QUICK!
Mother: What’s wrong, what’s the matter?
Calvin: Do you think love is nothing but a biochemical reaction designed to make sure our genes get passed on?
Mother: Whatever it is, it’s all that’s keeping me from strangling you right now.
Calvin: Mum’s midnight reassurances are never very reassuring.
And one most journalists, and anyone else skilled in work avoidance, will relate to:
Calvin: The teacher reminded us that we only have a week left to finish our leaf collections, so we ought to be half done now.
Hobbes: You haven’t even started.
Calvin: Yeah but I work better under pressure.
Hobbes: Actually you work ONLY under pressure.
Calvin: That way the work time is more miserable but there’s less of it.
Homepaddock 
Bill Watterson is a genius.
Nice interview with him here, earlier this year:
http://www.cleveland.com/living/index.ssf/2010/02/bill_watterson_creator_of_belo.html
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I agree. I wonder if he had chidlren like that, was like that himself when he was a kid or maybe he just had the gift of depicting the universal though the particular?
Thanks for the link. Is it my imagination or is there a likeness between Watterson and Calvin’s father?
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