Bill
Watterson was the Charles Schulz of the millennial generation. His richly drawn,
tragicomic Calvin and Hobbes wedged pathos into the fantasy world of a spiky
haired 6-year-old boy and his stuffed tiger. Today, The Modern
Materialist writer Alex Zalben waxes nostalgic on comic strips past. “Comic
strips, on a whole, are disappearing, and I think a large part of that has to
do with the end of The Far Side, and Calvin & Hobbes, which were like a
one-two punch for the strip format,” he writes. For only 95 bones on
Amazon.com, you can pony up for a print of the heartbreakingly sweet final Calvin
and Hobbes strip.
Other goodies in The Modern
Materialist grab bag:
The vaguely misogynistic Hillary
Clinton nutcracker.
Kitschy throwback Zoltars
from the Tom Hanks classic, Big.
Clunky felt tip slingback
wedges from Franco Sarto .
And every nerd’s wet
dream: a mailbox shaped like R2-D2.
-- Joey Hood
