Touching the hearts and tickling the funny bones of readers since 1971, Ziggy is a cultural icon. Piggy's Lonely Hearts Club Comic is a book that comics fans everywhere can enjoy anytime-even when they're 64! Full of humor and insight, sardonic asides and unexpected truths, Sgt. The result is a rare and revealing glimpse into the world of Rat, Pig, Goat and Zebra.
Piggy, Pastis explains the genesis of Pearls (hint: it didn't begin at an artist's easel), why he was initially reluctant to show it to newspaper syndicates (and the surprising reason he changed his mind), the unexpected responses from readers to his work, and which Pearls strips worked and which ones didn't (and how he would have corrected the ones that didn't). In addition to collecting all of the Pearls cartoons that appeared in BLTs Taste So Darn Good and This Little Piggy Stayed Home, cartoonist Stephan Pastis takes readers on a VIP backstage tour of one of the most successful comic strips in newspapers today. Like the influential Beatles album that inspired the book's title, Sgt. Piggy's Lonely Hearts Club Comic, the first Pearls Before Swine treasury-supersized for your enjoyment.īut this is no ordinary cartoon treasury. Rat, Pig, Zebra, and Goat, the central characters of Pearls Before Swine, are back in Sgt. So, Watterson did draw on the real world and classic literature for some characters' names, just not for Calvin's parents.The Fab Four of the funny pages come together again-this time in their first book treasury. Meanwhile, Calvin's elementary teacher, Miss Wormwood, was named after the devil in C.S. For example, Calvin was famously named after real-life 16th-century theologian John Calvin, while Hobbes is named after the philosopher Thomas Hobbes. While Bill Watterson reasoned that Calvin's parents in Calvin and Hobbes didn't need names, he did draw inspiration for other characters in the comic strip. He added that since the parents are mostly only seen reacting as secondary characters to Calvin and his adventures, he wanted to keep them realistic - albeit with their own personalities and humor.
Additionally, Watterson did admit that there's some truth to Calvin's mom and dad being partially based on his own parents but that they were satirical takes of them more than actual reflections.
According to Bill Watterson, he received fan complaints that Calvin's parents in Calvin and Hobbes were "unloving" and "needlessly" sarcastic, but said it was the best way to show how exasperated his parents were by being intentionally unsentimental - as raising kids was difficult.
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