The Rumpus Interview with Ben Tanzer
Ben Tanzer discusses his new essay collection Be Cool, why running is so important to him, and not being precious about his work. ...more
Posts Tagged: Calvin and Hobbes
The Rumpus Interview with Matthew Baker
"Master fictioneer" Matthew Baker talks about his new middle grade novel, If You Find This, artists as tricksters, his favorite comic strips, and why children are still capable of believing in impossible things. ...more
The Rumpus Interview with M.E. Thomas
M.E. Thomas, author of Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight, discusses writing a memoir, being a lawyer and a Mormon, the unreliability of memory—and, of course, being a high-functioning sociopath. ...more
Bill Watterson Breaks Silence
...moreAll the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and versatile, so I think they’ll continue to find relevance one way or another. But they definitely won’t be the same as what I grew up with.
Nostalgia: What Would Calvin Say?
An encounter with childhood Calvin and Hobbes anthologies inspires a rumination on the comic and nostalgia itself in this essay at the Awl.
Tackling aspects of nostalgia that we often forget, as well as the drawbacks of overdosing, the essay also explores the comic’s perspective on the subject:
“Calvin and Hobbes tells us not to wallow in nostalgia for childhoods that were more complicated than we remember.
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