Philosophical
What if growing up means losing the best part?
To his parents, it's trash. To Calvin, it's a time machine, a duplicator, a spaceship. He's not pretending. He's seeing more than what's there. And the strip keeps asking: who's actually right?
There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.— Bill Watterson, *Calvin and Hobbes*
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The thinker
Creator of Calvin and Hobbes
Bill Watterson is the reclusive cartoonist behind Calvin and Hobbes, one of the most beloved comic strips ever made. He walked away from it at its peak and has rarely spoken publicly since.
Based on Bill Watterson's 1990 Kenyon College Commencement Speech, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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