Jim Davis' other strip was
U.S. Acres, with Orson the Pig, Roy the Rooster, chick and egg Booker and Sheldon, sheep Bo and Lanolyn, and...
a dog named Cody and a cat named Blue? Everyone who grew up from that time remembers the long-running Saturday morning show, but no one remembers the strip, which ended a couple of years before the cartoon did and evolved on a different track. Platypus Comix brings us highlights from the strip's
surprisingly good, yet neglected, newspaper run.
posted by JHarris
on Jun 12, 2007 -
29 comments
If you can offer the world a strip like Calvin and Hobbes, don't you have a responsibility to keep working? The
Cleveland Scene travels to Chagrin Falls, Ohio, trying to track down its most famous (and famously reclusive) resident,
Calvin and Hobbes author
Bill Watterson. Along the way, the reporter contemplates
micturating Calvins, burning paintings, the cost of hewing to one's principles, and the utter vacuity of
Jim Davis's soul. In the end, there's even a brief encounter with a man who may or may not have once made millions happy by drawing a six-year-old boy and his stuffed tiger.
posted by pardonyou?
on Dec 2, 2003 -
58 comments
