Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and his Revolutionary Comic Strip
by:
Nevin Martell (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B00BDH2UF2
Publish date: October 1st 2009
Publisher: Continuum
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Biography,
Writing,
History,
Journalism,
Art,
Culture,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Pop Culture,
Comic Strips
Nevin Martell, like just about everyone who ever read him, is a Calvin and Hobbes fan -- what's more, he discovered the strip at the right age and was able to appreciate it as only a child can -- without being self-conscious about reading a comic strip and with devotion. Years later, when trying to ...
I was disappointed in this book. It doesn't give any real insight into Bill Watterson and instead reads more like a biography, interspersed with interviews and descriptions of Calvin & Hobbes strips to demonstrate certain points. The book is noticeably lacking in any reproductions of Watterson's wo...