There are few wellsprings of humor more consistently
reliable than the mind of a child. Most cartoonists,
being childlike, recognize this, but when they set out to
capture the hurly-burly of the very young, they almost
always cheat, shamelessly creating not recognizable
children, but highly annoying, wisecracking, miniature
adults. Chalk it up to either indolence or defective recall,
but most people who write comic dialogue for minors (up
to and including the perpetrators of the Cosby "kids")
demonstrate surprisingly little feel for--or faith in--the
original source material, that is, childhood, in all its
unfettered and winsome glory.
It is in this respect that Bill Watterson has proved as
unusual as his feckless creations, Calvin and Hobbes.
Watterson is the reporter who s gotten it right; childhood
as it actually is, with its constantly shifting frames of
reference. Anyone who s done time with a small child
knows that reality can be highly situational. The utterance
which an adult knows to be a "lie" may well reflect a child s
deepest conviction, at least at the moment it pops out.
Fantasy is so accessible, and it is joined with such force
and frequency, that resentful parents like Calvin s assume
they are being manipulated, when the truth is far more frightening: they don t even exist. The child is both king
and keeper of this realm, and he can be very choosey
about the company he keeps.
Of course, this exclusivity only provokes many grown-ups
into trying to regain the serendipity of youth for
themselves, to, in effect, retrieve the irretrievable. A
desperate few do things that later land them in the Betty
Ford Center.
The rest of us, more sensibly, read Calvin and Hobbes.
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