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5 Responses to "Book News: J. Wood Returns, Bill Watterson Speaks, and More"

jonathan February 11, 2010 at 11:02 AM

i don't think 'pearls before swine' or 'get fuzzy' are remotely interesting, so i guess we're even. we could argue this all day. to each his own, i guess.

Chris Bolton February 9, 2010 at 09:58 AM

You know, I've checked out "Cul de Sac," mainly because I'd heard such good things about it from Watterson and others, but I don't seem to get it. It's never struck me as funny and the art can't hold a candle to "Calvin & Hobbes" — or even "Pearls before Swine" or "Get Fuzzy." Maybe I need to read it from the beginning.

jonathan February 8, 2010 at 08:39 PM

Calvin & Hobbes was great, and I can understand being nostalgic and missing it, but I think the comic strip Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson fills the void pretty well. And although it might seem blasphemous, I think it's actually better than Calvin & Hobbes. It's been praised and acclaimed by many contemporary cartoonists & illustrators from Art Speigelman to Bill Watterson himself. There are two collections available now, as well as an omnibus on it's way sometime next year. Check it out and you'll see why everyone in the industry is in love.

alexis February 2, 2010 at 07:04 PM

Doesn't it seem a little disingenuous to award a book 40 years after the fact? Isn't the interesting thing about the yearly awards the way in which they reflect the sensibilities of the time in which they were published? How could they possibly judge the books of then with all that they know NOW? For example in 1937 Gone with the Wind won the Pulitzer. If we were to go back to rejudge the 1937 Pulitzer, how many of us would vote for Gone With the Wind?

manwith7talents February 2, 2010 at 02:24 PM

At least we'll always have the bumper stickers of Calvin urinating on Chevy and Ford logos.

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