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Dear Bill,
First of all, I confess to have cropped a picture of Calvin and been using it for profile ID in almost all my social media accounts for years without your permission. Those pictures of him making faces are just too darn cool. You know, AJ Jacobs once commented: 'love the profile pic' --"the" being me. Now that I mentioned it, I'm not sure if he was complimenting my choice of picture or my drawing skill (or so he thought). Should I clear that up with him? In any case, please don't sue me (boy am I off with a bad start).
A friend of mine once told me he was tempted to pull a prank on me. In his scenario I was to wake up one morning finding all my Calvin and Hobbes collections no longer on my shelves. If Mike Myers is right, that comedy is misery plus time, I can't say how much time I would need to find it funny had my friend really gone through with his plan (I'm quite sure it's part exaggeration part truth, I just don't if it is truth-ish exaggeration or the other way around). All those collections are still safe and sound on my bookshelves to this day, I'm very much relieved to say.
Calvin and Hobbes strips are the coolest. I love how they are drawn. I have no idea if you're using brushes or pens. I haven't been succeeded to copy, or even close to copy, your strokes. I thought maybe if I can imitate them, I may get lucky enough to get to think a little bit like you do. I love how the characters are designed, especially how they are named after (do you really read John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes through and through?). I love all the puns. It gives me the feeling of being intelligent getting them. I laugh and get goosebumps oftentimes. I love the metaphors, both the pictures and the words. I don't get poetry, but I find Calvin's, or I suppose yours, amusing. I love how you think through drawings. In fact, I'm set to try the same thing. I'm scheduled to take drawing lessons before this year ends (wish me luck). Especially, I love how you always manage to exhaust one single theme into a series of limitless strips. I can only imagine the taste of never running out of ideas.
I remember that by the time internet had made it to my home, your name was one of the first keywords I Yahoo-ed (Google wasn't around yet) and stumbled upon several sites posting speeches you make on various occasions (all those thoughtful people I don't know how to thank). I immediately realized quite a speech maker you are.
You expressed in one of your 1989 speeches how you learned a lot from Peanuts, that it is about "the search for acceptance, security, and love, and how hard those self-affirming things are to find... also about alienation, about ambition, about heroes, about religion, and about the search for meaning and 'happiness' in life." I've always thought that it was a sappy, phlegmatic comic, no more. All the characters make me, at best, sleepy. Maybe I will take another try at it. Can't imagine that it will top yours, though.
To echo your millions of adorers, I, too, would have to say that it was a very sad day when you signed off from the strips. Calvin and Hobbes is the first strips, at least for me, that show life is that funny, that you can laugh at it with style, and be smarter for it, too. Thank you for the amazing adventurous ten years (though I think another year or two wouldn't hurt, sir).
Where are you now, anyway. Are you in any social media at all? Are you in Twitter? Or Facebook? Or LinkedIn? I know you're not in Flickr nor DeviantArt. Not that I know better, but I wish you're searchable in at least one of them. Not for exploitative reason (I know how you see that cheapens things), but it would be nice to see what sort of contact you will make with people. I promise I won't stalk, I'll just follow. If I have to, I'll change my profile picture.
See you (so to speak),
Your fan,
adih.
.
Dear Bill,
First of all, I confess to have cropped a picture of Calvin and been using it for profile ID in almost all my social media accounts for years without your permission. Those pictures of him making faces are just too darn cool. You know, AJ Jacobs once commented: 'love the profile pic' --"the" being me. Now that I mentioned it, I'm not sure if he was complimenting my choice of picture or my drawing skill (or so he thought). Should I clear that up with him? In any case, please don't sue me (boy am I off with a bad start).
A friend of mine once told me he was tempted to pull a prank on me. In his scenario I was to wake up one morning finding all my Calvin and Hobbes collections no longer on my shelves. If Mike Myers is right, that comedy is misery plus time, I can't say how much time I would need to find it funny had my friend really gone through with his plan (I'm quite sure it's part exaggeration part truth, I just don't if it is truth-ish exaggeration or the other way around). All those collections are still safe and sound on my bookshelves to this day, I'm very much relieved to say.
Calvin and Hobbes strips are the coolest. I love how they are drawn. I have no idea if you're using brushes or pens. I haven't been succeeded to copy, or even close to copy, your strokes. I thought maybe if I can imitate them, I may get lucky enough to get to think a little bit like you do. I love how the characters are designed, especially how they are named after (do you really read John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes through and through?). I love all the puns. It gives me the feeling of being intelligent getting them. I laugh and get goosebumps oftentimes. I love the metaphors, both the pictures and the words. I don't get poetry, but I find Calvin's, or I suppose yours, amusing. I love how you think through drawings. In fact, I'm set to try the same thing. I'm scheduled to take drawing lessons before this year ends (wish me luck). Especially, I love how you always manage to exhaust one single theme into a series of limitless strips. I can only imagine the taste of never running out of ideas.
I remember that by the time internet had made it to my home, your name was one of the first keywords I Yahoo-ed (Google wasn't around yet) and stumbled upon several sites posting speeches you make on various occasions (all those thoughtful people I don't know how to thank). I immediately realized quite a speech maker you are.
You expressed in one of your 1989 speeches how you learned a lot from Peanuts, that it is about "the search for acceptance, security, and love, and how hard those self-affirming things are to find... also about alienation, about ambition, about heroes, about religion, and about the search for meaning and 'happiness' in life." I've always thought that it was a sappy, phlegmatic comic, no more. All the characters make me, at best, sleepy. Maybe I will take another try at it. Can't imagine that it will top yours, though.
To echo your millions of adorers, I, too, would have to say that it was a very sad day when you signed off from the strips. Calvin and Hobbes is the first strips, at least for me, that show life is that funny, that you can laugh at it with style, and be smarter for it, too. Thank you for the amazing adventurous ten years (though I think another year or two wouldn't hurt, sir).
Where are you now, anyway. Are you in any social media at all? Are you in Twitter? Or Facebook? Or LinkedIn? I know you're not in Flickr nor DeviantArt. Not that I know better, but I wish you're searchable in at least one of them. Not for exploitative reason (I know how you see that cheapens things), but it would be nice to see what sort of contact you will make with people. I promise I won't stalk, I'll just follow. If I have to, I'll change my profile picture.
See you (so to speak),
Your fan,
adih.
.
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