Berkely Breathed interview

Hobbes and I disagree.

 

I would say Hobbes is less whimsical than Snoopy. but I see your general point.

I don't think Peanuts ever got as serious as C&H. That story arc where Calvin brings home the dying bird was something else. And I loved Watterson's random serious Sunday strips.

 

I think we all have a little Steve Dallas in us.

 

Long live Deathtongue!

 

I just dug out all eight Bloom County books I have, and am going to start re-reading them.

Thanks for the reminder.

 

The only strip in the picture with Peanuts for great sustained achievement in the last half of the 20th century is C&H. Everyone else is running for third.

And I'll be the first to admit: Peanuts fell off -- MARKEDLY -- after 1980.

Apples and oranges. High whimsical quotent? Snoopy. Occasional gut-wrenching bathos? Hobbes. Both part of remarkable wholes.

 

I think we all have a little Bill the Cat in us.....the end of Opus was less than satisfying...the end of Bloom County made me teary-eyed.

 

If Calvin and Hobbes came first, it would be more like Peanuts, and Peanuts more like C&H.

And Hi and Lois would be diseased excrement no matter what era it ran in.

 

Hi and Lois is Al Capplinesque, compared to Family Circus.

 

And Pogo's third, in a multi-way photo.

 

At least Family Circus is easily manipulated with better captions.

 

To our eternal delight.