On New Year’s Eve of 1995, Bill Watterson published the 3,150th and last Calvin and Hobbes strip. Since then, we’ve seen a host of good-to-very-bad takes on the comic: cartoons, apps, bizarre live-action reboots—even a search engine.

    Now there’s a documentary, Dear Mr. Watterson, which explores the impact the boy and his anthropomorphic tiger had on both readers and Watterson’s colleagues. The film began as a pet project for director Joel Allen Schroeder, who started interviewing fans of the strip in 2007; his Kickstarter project, created in 2009, then raised more than twice his initial $12,000 goal. The movie’s been picked up by a distributor, and the first trailer has just hit the Web:



thenewgreen:

I've never been one to follow a comic strip but I've enjoyed reading them occasionally. I don't know much about Calvin and Hobbes, they're one of those things I've always known existed but have yet to dive in to. Perhaps this documentary could be a good introduction for me.

You a fan? What makes it so influential?


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