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Let's Go Exploring : Calvin and Hobbes - Michael Hingston

Let's Go Exploring

Calvin and Hobbes

By: Michael Hingston

eBook | 1 May 2018

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A fascinating investigation of a beloved comic strip

The internet is home to impassioned debates on just about everything, but there's one thing that's universally beloved: Bill Watterson's comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. Until its retirement in 1995 after a ten-year run, the strip won numerous awards and drew tens of millions of readers from all around the world. The story of a boy and his best friend — a stuffed tiger — was a pitch-perfect distillation of the joys and horrors of childhood, and a celebration of imagination in its purest form. In Let's Go Exploring, Michael Hingston mines the strip and traces the story of Calvin's reclusive creator to demonstrate how imagination — its possibilities, its opportunities, and ultimately its limitations — helped make Calvin and Hobbes North America's last great comic strip.

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Industry Reviews

PRAISE FOR LET’sS GO EXPLORING

"This book captures the joy and excitement at first discovering Calvin and Hobbes, and the wistful sadness that it is no more." - Patton Oswalt

"Spelunking through the daily strips and digging into its impact, Hingston's thorough survey of Watterson's masterpiece of sequential art is already one of the great essays on the medium. This is the book Calvin & Hobbes loyalists have been waiting for." - Lee Henderson, author of The Road Narrows As You Go

PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS WORKS:

"[Hingston] does it all with a delicious sense of humour, eviscerating his characters' extended adolescence while creating sympathy for their attempt to find a place in the world." - Quill & Quire (starred review)

"May well be the Great Canadian Comic Novel." - Winnipeg Free Press on The Dilettantes

"The dialogue is funny and spot on, and the satire alternately nips, bites, and rips your head off ... a terrific debut." - Edmonton Journal on The Dilettantes

"Depicted with toe-curling immediacy-and hilarity." - Montreal Gazette on The Dilettantes

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