Calvin and Hobbes - 3pts

Bill Watterson, is my choice for week four's featured artist assignment. I love the style of the Calvin and Hobbes comics, something about the line work makes it very cute and childlike. The punchlines are always very relatable and playing with the idea of Hobbes coming in and out of his stuffed animal form gives a lot of possibilities for the story. I also love the way Calvin is so rebellious, as a child should be, and he fights against authority in the way some children wish they could. Hobbes plays the great contrast to him of being his best friend that can always join in the shenanigans while also being a voice of reason sometimes. Hobbes is the stuffed animal every kid felt that they had, or should have, in their childhood. It's very innocent fun most of the time where the idea of the limits of a child's imagination is played with. These comics also bring up very adult topics, and topics that invoke powerful thoughts. The way Calvin talks makes him seem very intellectual and aware of the world he lives in even though sometimes he becomes lost in his imagination. Like he knows the exact irony in it all. One strip has him telling Susie that no girls are allowed in his treehouse, where she retorts that she doesn't want to be in the tree house anyways. Calvin thinks to himself aloud, "Leave it to a girl to take all the fun out of sex discrimination." We all know that that's not how a boy his age would normally talk or think but it stems from the original idea of childlike emotion and builds it into an adult mindset.