I will often ask interview subjects to define or explain Calvin & Hobbes, and nobody ever has an easy time at it. I can't give you a good definition myself, after giving it a lot of thought. No definition seems good enough, and everybody has a little different take on it. Here, Jan Eliot gives it a shot, and I think she does pretty well, and I particularly love the way she describes Calvin about 23 seconds in...
Dear Mr. Watterson is a documentary film about the greatest comic strip ever: Calvin & Hobbes. But we've got so much footage and a film can only be so long, so we'll put lots of extra clips and deleted scenes here.
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