In today’s Calvin and Hobbes, notice that in the first panel, Calvin is on the left side of the tree. In the second panel he has switched to the right side (when viewed from where Mom is standing). And in the third panel he is back on the left side.Bill Watterson drew it this way deliberately, because he wanted to keep Mom on the left side of the panel for the entire strip. But if he had drawn Calvin on the right side of the tree in panel 2, we wouldn’t have been able to see him, because he would have been blocked by the tree. Or, if he wasn’t blocked by the tree, Calvin’s back would have been to us in Panel 2 and the tree would have been between Mom and Calvin.
In today’s Calvin and Hobbes, notice that in the first panel, Calvin is on the left side of the tree. In the second panel he has switched to the right side (when viewed from where Mom is standing). And in the third panel he is back on the left side.Bill Watterson drew it this way deliberately, because he wanted to keep Mom on the left side of the panel for the entire strip. But if he had drawn Calvin on the right side of the tree in panel 2, we wouldn’t have been able to see him, because he would have been blocked by the tree. Or, if he wasn’t blocked by the tree, Calvin’s back would have been to us in Panel 2 and the tree would have been between Mom and Calvin.