Dear Mr. Watterson Page #2
people in the city.
I mean, really, just all demographics,
Everyone is united
by their love for this strip,
but everyone has a specific thing
that they love about it
or specific things
that they love about it,
and it's not always the same thing.
I grew up in a
Mexican neighborhood.
I went to a white school,
and I was like 300 pounds.
So I didn't really fit in,
but neither did Calvin.
And it wasn't really a problem.
He was just, I'm weird,
and this is the way I am,
and this is who I'm going to be.
And I think that's one of the things
that really kind of attracted me
to the character.
What really resonated to me was
the whole imagination aspect of it,
and how he just created it
in his head.
And he didn't even see his teacher
or his principal,
he just saw aliens,
and he was Spaceman Spiff.
- It's a very deep,
very philosophical experience
reading a Calvin and Hobbes book.
Even though on the surface
they're just cartoons.
- He's really created characters
that I think have a lot of depth
and are interesting to read about.
Calvin and Hobbes is
such a subversive comic.
But it has a purity to it
that most comics don't,
because it is so joyful and very much
in the imagination of this kid.
And yet he is hyper-aware
of world events and pop culture
and ironies and social concepts.
And I just found that
really, really exciting.
My mom died about 11 years ago
of a heart attack.
And my husband is a huge fan
of Calvin and Hobbes, so he had
a lot of the paperback collections
laying around the house.
And I would just sit at night
and look through those.
And that's how I came to know
Calvin and Hobbes
or four months after she passed.
It's just finding a place
to laugh again.
So I moved out here
to this brand new state,
this brand new house,
brand new neighborhood,
and I knew nobody.
So I was looking for something to
gravitate towards or associate with,
something I could bond with
I didn't understand, sometimes,
the significance of his statements.
into research,
and going to the dictionary
or looking for meaning.
you just, when you find it,
you want to share it.
And as soon as he could
start reading,
I wanted to give him the books.
And just like I thought it would,
I mean, there's times now
where he'll be reading it
in his bedroom,
and I'll just hear him laughing.
And just that simple act
of hearing him laugh,
as I know what he's reading,
it's like, there you go.
That's what I was hoping for.
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