First, I DO NOT OWN THAT IMAGE THERE ON THE LEFT. It's not mine. At all. So there. Now that the legal stuff is out of the way...
I have recently become aware of maybe the most significant cinema rumor in my lifetime. At least for ME. A group at dearmrwatterson.com is trying to create a film/documentary about the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, created by Cleveland native, Bill Watterson.
Watterson stopped the strip in 1995 because he felt huge pressure to commercialize his characters. Not wanting to do that, he pulled the plug. Us obsessed fans (my brother and I are uber C&H nerds) have had a hole in our hearts ever since. Heck, I was 15 when the strip stopped and I STILL read those comic books and laugh like a hyena. And I have, for just a moment, considered naming our fourth child, Calvin Hobbes Hooper, if it's a boy. Jen put the kibosh on that with a look I shudder to recall.
I don't know if the film will ever come out. But just the hope of one is heart-warming. Those strips make me think of home, of my brother, of simpler times when my biggest concern was the soccer game we had coming up.
I'm not living in the past, nor do I want to. But Calvin and Hobbes comics do make me feel like a kid again. And that's okay for a few pages.
I am sorry to say that for all of those years I never read Calvin and Hobbes until many years ago a co-worker was reading C & H on their break looked up and said to me.. "You've never read Calvin & Hobbes?? Mike, you are sooo like Calvin!"
ReplyDeleteNeedless to say I had to start reading C & H. I'm sorry to say, for those that have to be around me... She was right!