calvin as eric harris

[FuSoYa]

http://home.eol.ca/~dord/FCHED05.html


i found this while looking online for the last Calvin and Hobbes strip. Bill Watterson is stumping for Kerry!

 

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wow, that's pretty involved. textual analysis of comic strips is always interesting, too.

 

[Josh Seipp]

this person thinks too much. also, calvin looks NOTHING like eric harris. they certainly don't have 'strikingly similar physiognomies.' Interesting idea, though.

 

[FuSoYa]

i like the miniature snowman thing though ("count the snowmen" gasp!!)

 

[FuSoYa]

although it'd have been a lot better had Calvin built a few hulking snowjocks

 

[Josh Seipp]

i like the miniature snowman thing though ("count the snowmen" gasp!!)

hahahah YES!

also the 'ich bin gott' yearbook signing thing which is actually a marlene dietrich quote, I think?

 

[NAD]

The best Calvin and Hobbes snowmen strip was the one with one dismantled snowmen in the middle and several others staring down at him with gaping mouths, and upon seeing it his parents say he needs psychoanalysis or something. I haven't seen that for years but still chuckle.

 

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While the statement "Ich bin Gott!" is, of course, in German, as
was the phrase "Kein Mitleid" ("No mercy") that Eric wrote on the
same page, and "Kein Mitleid für die Mehrheit" ("No mercy for the
majority," with "Mehrheit" spelled "merheit"; Eric was not a
careful speller) that he wrote in his journal.

Academics would often be more accurate if they had familiarity with popular culture such as music.

"The quotation 'A treat for the freaks' is indicative of Harris' identification with the 'freak' aesthetic, who BLAH BLAH BLAH"

 

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(bolding in the previous paragraph is mine)