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On Calvin and Hobbes and the Trouble with Nostalgia
I loved Calvin and Hobbes. And still love it, though I haven'te read it in a while. I was 11 and 12 when I first started reading it, and would cut out of the newspaper each strip everyday, for at least months or a year. I put the strips in photo binders. Then the anthologies came out, and I didn't have to cut them out, then the strip ended. I agree with the point about nostalgia. Especially nostalgia about 'pop culture', toys, movies, tv shows, etc. Most of the toys and tv shows were full of marketing and ads. I loved GI Joes grwoing up, but really GIJoes were like 'pro-war' propaganda, which I only realized as an adult. He-Man glorified some really great stereotypes of manliness as I recall. But as a kid they were just toys, and I loved playing with action figures. I also remember I really liked the show 'Alf', and had the trading cards, my brother had a stuffed animal Alf. But seeing just one rerun (only part of it, I had to turn it off) made me realize how terrible a show it was. but man when I was 7 or 8, I thought it was funny!