fantasies drawn more
real says a lot about what
going on in his head
I allowed myself to get excited when I saw that there was an upcoming article to be published in the New Yorker titled, Life after Calvin.
It was reported to be look at the life of Bill Watterson in one of the few interviews the artist/writer/creator has granted since he stopped creating the Calvin and Hobbs comic strip.
I love Calvin and Hobbs or at least I really enjoy.
Much of it, for me, can be seen as biography.
Much of what Calvin thought, says and does sounds very familiar to me.
With much interest, I have been waiting for this article.
So it is here.
And I have read it.
And …
I am not sure what I wanted it to say.
But it sure didn’t say much.
I think the writer got one or two quotes and fleshed out a New Yorker profile.
I am reminded of something Jim Harrison said about giving interviews.
Mr. Harrison remarked that he could get through any interview by repeating any question back as a statement.
He didn’t have to think much.
And the writer was able to prove all their preconceived notions.
The was one take away thought, but it seems to have been said in some other interview.
The writer, one Rivka Galchen, writes, “Watterson has said, of the illustrations in “Calvin and Hobbes,” “One of the jokes I really like is that the fantasies are drawn more realistically than reality, since that says a lot about what’s going on in Calvin’s head.” Only one reality in “Calvin and Hobbes” is drawn with a level of detail comparable to the scenes of Calvin’s imagination: the natural world. The woods, the streams, the snowy hills the friends career off—the natural world is a space as enchanted and real as Hobbes himself.“
… the fantasies are drawn more realistically than reality, since that says a lot about what’s going on in Calvin’s head.
I like that.
I like that as I think I live that way to this day.
So I can find affirmation of my lifestyle.
As for Mr. Watterson?
In this article, I think there are more quotes from Calvin or Hobbs than from Mr. Watterson.
Maybe the title should have been, Life after Bill.
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