A review by junderscoreb
Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip by Nevin Martell

2.0

It's a testament to the power of Calvin and Hobbes that I actually enjoyed portions of this book. I read through sentences like this one (describing the cut-throat landscape of professional comic strip writers): "This was the dog eat dog world Watterson wanted to jump into without a bulletproof vest or a parachute," for upwards of 100 pages before really admitting to myself that I was going to get little out of this book. Just when my eyes were too sore from rolling at Martell's prose to read any further, he would describe a particular strip and I would get a little dopamine squirt that would keep me going. Next time, I'll cut out the middle man and just re-read the collections.