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Is There ANY Value In Comic Strips?
I grew up reading the comic strips in the Sunday paper, and have never really given up the habit. It is my favorite way to start the day, if that day happens to be the weekend, and I love a wide variety of comic strips, although my favorite has always been Calvin and Hobbes. Let me worry about world events on other days, on Sunday, give me my comic strips and let me just relax and waste the morning away on light laughs and simple story lines. There is nothing better to chase your blues away then comic strips.
Although Calvin and Hobbes is my favorite of the comic strips, it has not always been so. There are many other comic strips vying for my attention. I remember that I used to really love the serial comic strips, where one character would have a grand adventure which would continue week after week. My favorite growing up was "Prince Valiant", the story of a prince and the plots and intrigues of his kingdom, as well as his adventures. But of course, there are different comic strips for different tastes, some medeival, and others providing a much more sleek and modern feel to them.
The reason that Calvin and Hobbes is one of the best comic strips has to do with the combination of wit and keen observation employed by the author. Calvin and Hobbes is the story of a young boy and his stuffed tiger, who for him is alive. He talks to the Tiger and plays adventure games of make believe, sometimes being one of his favorite characters, "Spaceman Spiff." His games reflect the reality of his life -- his frustrations with his parents, school, and Sally, the girl he often picks on, come through in his wild imagination.
Some comic strips are better than others. The comic strips I've never been able to understand are the ones in the back of local magazines. You know the ones I'm talking about -- these comic strips are drawn extremely tiny, and the characters are messy and indistinct. They are really just there to take up space because the dialogue, if there is any, never really makes any sense. I wonder if anyone reads these comics, and if they were completely removed from the backs of local weeklies all over the nation, if anyone would ever notice. I seriously doubt that they make any difference to anyone.
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