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Calvin and Hobbes is a daily comic strip created by American cartoonist Bill Watterson. It was syndicated from 1985 to 1995. The two main characters are Calvin, a mischievous, adventurous 6-year-old boy, and Hobbes, his sardonic stuffed tiger. Although the author does not mention specific political or current events deliberately, he does include board issues, such as environmentalism, public education.
Most of the comic strips or graphic novels serve as tools for entertaining by demonstrating intriguing simple drawings and conversations between the characters. Calvin and Hobbes is a great example of this kind of drawing, having the power to draw audience’s attention by limited words with provoking meaning and cute drawings.
When I first came across this comic strip, I was fascinated by one of main character, Calvin, as he demonstrated his intelligence by his sophisticated vocabularies, which contradicted with his mischievous behavior and brat-looking appearance. Later I was also impressed Hobbes, as I think he is quite rational and sometimes sarcastic. Just like the above example, the author only used three grids, which including three speech bubbles, to convey the meaning. When Calvin asked whether Hobbes would like to go to the zoo, Hobbes replied that could they visit a prison afterward. What a humorous and satirical response as Hobbes itself is a tiger!
For me, I think this comic strip is well-depicted which let me smile from the bottom of my heart. The story is pretty simple, but meaningful. It draws audience’s awareness about animal rights. So is there any difference between keeping animals in zoos with those criminals in prisons? Should animals born with animal rights? If so, what rights are “animal rights” actually referring to? Should it be the same with human rights? These are all the ethical problems behind this comic strip.
Calvin and Hobbes is a daily comic strip created by American cartoonist Bill Watterson. It was syndicated from 1985 to 1995. The two main characters are Calvin, a mischievous, adventurous 6-year-old boy, and Hobbes, his sardonic stuffed tiger. Although the author does not mention specific political or current events deliberately, he does include board issues, such as environmentalism, public education.
Most of the comic strips or graphic novels serve as tools for entertaining by demonstrating intriguing simple drawings and conversations between the characters. Calvin and Hobbes is a great example of this kind of drawing, having the power to draw audience’s attention by limited words with provoking meaning and cute drawings.
When I first came across this comic strip, I was fascinated by one of main character, Calvin, as he demonstrated his intelligence by his sophisticated vocabularies, which contradicted with his mischievous behavior and brat-looking appearance. Later I was also impressed Hobbes, as I think he is quite rational and sometimes sarcastic. Just like the above example, the author only used three grids, which including three speech bubbles, to convey the meaning. When Calvin asked whether Hobbes would like to go to the zoo, Hobbes replied that could they visit a prison afterward. What a humorous and satirical response as Hobbes itself is a tiger!
For me, I think this comic strip is well-depicted which let me smile from the bottom of my heart. The story is pretty simple, but meaningful. It draws audience’s awareness about animal rights. So is there any difference between keeping animals in zoos with those criminals in prisons? Should animals born with animal rights? If so, what rights are “animal rights” actually referring to? Should it be the same with human rights? These are all the ethical problems behind this comic strip.