09-17-2019, 08:30 PM
Acer wrote:
[quote=Thrift Store Scott]
Although he is in no way credited for it, the visual style of Zits, especially the large-format Sunday color editions, is so strongly reminiscent of Watterson's work on Calvin & Hobbes that I've often wondered if he didn't contribute a strip or two on the sly.
Someone pointed out to me that Zits could be thought of as Calvin in his teenage years. (Though his existential introspection is largely dormant...for now.)
True, but as a trade-off his friends Hector and Pierce are pretty clear manifestations of his Super-Ego and Id, so in that respect the inspiration has gone from Kierkegaard and Sartre to Freud, which seems appropriate to a story centered around a hormone-soaked teenager.