Calvin

We all know Calvin - the famous kid of the Calvin and Hobbes fame. Currently he makes my happiest moment every day. I get this daily calvin in my inbox, and it always comes as a break from my monotone life and its maladies. It brings out the child in me, when things were carefree, and life was much more simpler.

Calvin and Hobbes is Bill Waterson's satire on the whole world today. We are all kids at some level, no matter how much we grow up. CnH just manages to bring that part out when you read it. I like the black and white ones more than the "longer" coloured strips. Its just a personal preference.

His alter-egos and his flights of fantasy in his 'time-machines"/card-boxes, are all what we would have liked personally. Sometimes we all wish, that we could change the world as we know it and transport into a world where the rules are set by you. PLay games, where you decide the rules and you change them as per your whim. Its the ultimate power that Calvin holds in his world. He moves in and out of this world, taking his tiger along with.

Its ingenious, the idea of it all, the simplicity of a six-year old and his imaginary tiger. It simply 'rocks'!!! And I love it !!