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Let?s Go Exploring: Calvin and Hobbes (Pop Classics)
Lets Go Exploring Calvin and Hobbes - Pop Classics Author:Michael Hingston A fascinating investigation of a beloved comic strip The internet is home to impassioned debates on just about everything, but there?s one thing that?s universally beloved: Bill Watterson?s comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. Until its retirement in 1995 after a ten-year run, the strip won numerous awards and drew tens of millions of readers from all... more » around the world. The story of a boy and his best friend ? a stuffed tiger ? was a pitch-perfect distillation of the joys and horrors of childhood, and a celebration of imagination in its purest form. In Let?s Go Exploring, Michael Hingston mines the strip and traces the story of Calvin?s reclusive creator to demonstrate how imagination ? its possibilities, its opportunities, and ultimately its limitations ? helped make Calvin and Hobbes North America?s last great comic strip.« less