Let’s Go Exploring
Author | : Michael Hingston |
Publisher | : ECW Press |
Total Pages | : 133 |
Release | : 2018-05-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781773051796 |
ISBN-13 | : 1773051792 |
Rating | : 4/5 (792 Downloads) |
Download or read book Let’s Go Exploring written by Michael Hingston and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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.