I do kind of wish Watterson would go back to political cartoons. I thought a lot of his stuff was pretty good, and these days editorial cartooning has really hit a low point in the US.
I used to read any one of several battered Calvin and Hobbes anthologies to my little brother when I was younger. It really holds a very special place in my heart to this day. It’s hard to explain to other people what my childhood was like. I can’t express how much that comic served as a refuge from the insanity of my life at the time. Chances are pretty good I’ll only read a few Calvin and Hobbes comics here and there as I come across them. There is a pocket in my mind where I’m still reading them to my brother, and all of my anxieties have blended into the background. I prefer to leave it undisturbed.
