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As I grew older my favourites were Peanuts, Calvin and Hobbes and Archie. I have the complete Calvin and Hobbes collection, and my sister has collected hundreds of Archie digests. I don't understand. Why would the writers of Archie choose to kill their lead character? Can you imagine Calvin and Hobbes without [Calvin] or Peanuts without Charlie Brown? When Peanuts ended, the last strip was so ordinary I can't remember what is was. I was secretly hoping Charlie Brown would kiss the Little Red-Haired Girl, win a baseball game or checkers, or perhaps kick the football a million miles before Lucy yanked it away from him. I was hoping, praying that Charlie Brown would go out in a blaze of glory.
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Fans' treat is luck of draw
CALVIN AND Hobbes\" creator Bill Watterson, after a 20-year hiatus, returned briefly to the funnies business.
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Newspapers dying? What about comic strips
[Bill Watterson] created [Calvin] to be a free-spirited and imaginative kid, but Calvin was also articulate and wise beyond his years. On several occasions I had to refer to my dictionary to keep up with Calvin's extensive vocabulary. For example, in a four-panel horizontal comic strip: a phone rings. Calvin answers, \"Hello? No. My dad's not here now.\" Calvin continues, \"Will I take a message? I don't know - what's in it for me?\" In the final panel, Calvin is seen walking away from the phone saying, \"People always assume you're some kind of altruist.\" Even though it's unlikely newspapers will be \"dying\" anytime soon, the pressure cartoonists are faced with to stay relevant, witty and clever is clear when compared to the writers and artists of comics such as Garfield, Dilbert, TheFar Side and Peanuts.
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