As you grow ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ grow along with you
I first read ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ when I was 15 and found it in a friend’s place. I found it hard to comprehend the meaning behind those comic strips, it was not funny and could not relate much. I did not care about understanding it until I started reading novels and learnt to understand deeper meanings of sentences.
It was at this point one of my friend’s got a Calvin & Hobbes book and I started reading it. It was mind blowing, I was surprised that a comic can be so thought provoking on serious things like life, mortality, purpose etc. Over the few years I have read, re-read many times and I keep unearthing newer meanings as my experience & maturity has changed. The author also left a legacy by stopping the series when everyone wanted more, did not even opt on monetizing by selling merchandises or tempted to restart the series.
It is as if he said “Keep reading again and again, it is a new comic strip each time you read when you get older”.
In the future generations this will gain the classic status like many other contemporary literary works and may be mandatory reading in schools.
