Sulphur on 11/7/2010 at 19:06
While Calvin & Hobbes was, and is, a fantastic comic strip, I don't think you can really set C&H as an arbitrary point in the timeline and define the rest of the medium as pre- or post-C&H. The precociousness wasn't unique to C&H; Watterson just did it with far more charm and wit than most. Peanuts had some very literate kids talking in the strips, and it predates C&H. Heck, it counts as one of Watterson's influences.
Pardoner on 11/7/2010 at 19:14
I don't think I meant otherwise. I'm referring to a category of comics that are shamelessly derivative of Watterson's strips, and utterly facile. Post- doesn't suggest I was constituting a whole timeline based around how fantastic Bill Watterson is. It just means 'after'.
Chade on 11/7/2010 at 23:23
Quote Posted by Pardoner
shock value with dark humor (look what 'innocent' children can say!)
I know the thread has moved beyond Clarissa, but ...
In the only case of child molestation I've ever had any remote connection to (wife's friend was child's teacher), by far the most confronting aspect of the whole affair was the child's innocence. The mother and teacher often had to deal with the child asking where her "special friend" was, or stop the child when she tried to play "special cuddles" with other children.
While "children saying adult things" may be a little shocking by itself, including it in a comic about child rape seems to ... miss the point. Like zooming in on the guy running around without pants while the twin towers collapse in the background.
Kolya on 12/7/2010 at 02:05
Yeah, no one really expects children to act like that.
Kinda like no one expects comics to depict reality.
Chade on 12/7/2010 at 02:34
"Clever children" isn't the most effective way to wring drama out of a child molestation scene.
Why are the two elements present in the same comic? Do they reinforce each other? Am I supposed to believe that one influenced the other in some way? Am I supposed to give two shits about children being slightly smarter then normal while one of them is being molested?
I read my previous post again, and I just can't figure out how you interpreted it as a call for realism.
Sulphur on 12/7/2010 at 06:16
Quote Posted by Pardoner
I don't think I meant otherwise. I'm referring to a category of comics that are shamelessly derivative of Watterson's strips, and utterly facile. Post- doesn't suggest I was constituting a whole timeline based around how fantastic Bill Watterson is. It just means 'after'.
Okay, now that that's cleared up.
Do you have a blog
Pardoner on 12/7/2010 at 07:13
Have you stopped beating your wife?
june gloom on 12/7/2010 at 07:14
lol
Koki on 12/7/2010 at 07:27
Quote Posted by Chade
"Clever children" isn't the most effective way to wring drama out of a child molestation scene.
What is the most effective way to wring drama out of child molestation scene?
june gloom on 12/7/2010 at 08:14
"koki did it"
