The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes (Volume 6)
Category: Books,Comics & Graphic Novels,Comic Strips
The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes (Volume 6) Details
About the Author Bill Watterson is the creator of Calvin and Hobbes, one of the most popular and well-regarded cartoon strips of the twentieth century. Calvin and Hobbes appeared in newspapers from November 1985 until Watterson's retirement in 1995.Online: gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/ Read more
Reviews
I have to break up my review into 3 categories to cater to different kinds of potential buyers:Rating of the collection (for those who are not familiar with Calvin and Hobbes): 5 starsCalvin and Hobbes is by far my favorite comic, and it's blend of social commentary and humor is unique. Not a week goes by in my life where I don't recall a particular line from one of the strips and its probably fair to say that I have been significantly influenced by the comics in the 16 years I've been reading (and re-reading) them.Rating of this specific collection among other Calvin and Hobbes books: 4 starsBeing the second book of the series which completes the Calvin and Hobbes collection, Bill Waterson has settled on some of the basic traits of each character and quality of the humor and the drawings is an improvement over the previous book (The Essential Calvin and Hobbes) though not up to the level of The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes. Calvin's dad gets more involved (his love for the outdoors, his performances in Calvin's "polls") and Rosalyn has a few appearances.Rating of the Kindle version: 4 starsI am quite impressed with the Kindle version (which I read on an Android tablet) and like that the strips are designed to be viewed in landscape mode. This has resulted in two weekday strips fitting on one "page" of the digital edition (as opposed to 3 per page in the paper books) and it makes them very easy to read (the option to resize does not seem to be available). The one feature I would like is to have a way to search the strips for a particular quote, though it probably makes sense to have one to search across the entire collection. Note that there are a few unofficial tools which accomplish this, but they have their limitations.
