In Calvin’s life, the concept of concentric circles is now a matter of record.
Here is another case where Calvin was still thinking about something at a late hour. Note the crescent moon in the sky:Click here: Calvin and Hobbes (April 16, 1991)Johnny Hart’s B.C. comic strip was in the newspapers when Bill Watterson was growing up. In fact, B.C. was introduced in 1958, the same year Bill Watterson was born. Throughout the years of B.C., Johnny Hart very frequently used the device of having day turn into night with a crescent moon in the sky, while someone was still thinking about something, as a means of showing that a lot of time had elapsed. Bill Watterson borrowed that device for Calvin and Hobbes.Here is an example from near the end of Johnny Hart’s 49-year career drawing B.C., just 3 years before Johnny died:Click here: B.C. (January 2, 2004)Here is what Bill Watterson said about Johnny Hart’s B.C.:“I admire the simplicity of B.C., the way Johnny Hart has gotten that strip down to the bare essentials. There’s nothing extraneous in the drawing, and the humor is very spartan. It doesn’t grab me, though, because I look for real involvement with characters, and the characters in B.C. are pretty much interchangeable; they’re props for humor. I think his style of humor is mostly in words, not in the characters. I look to strips like Peanuts, where you’re really involved with the characters; you feel that you know them. I guess that’s why I don’t enjoy B.C. quite as much. It’s better than many, though.”Following Johnny Hart’s death, Mason Mastroianni, Johnny’s grandson, took over the writing of the B.C. strip. He continues the use of the day/night/crescent-moon device in B.C.:Click here: B.C. (July 26, 2013)
In Calvin’s life, the concept of concentric circles is now a matter of record.
Here is another case where Calvin was still thinking about something at a late hour. Note the crescent moon in the sky:Click here: Calvin and Hobbes (April 16, 1991)Johnny Hart’s B.C. comic strip was in the newspapers when Bill Watterson was growing up. In fact, B.C. was introduced in 1958, the same year Bill Watterson was born. Throughout the years of B.C., Johnny Hart very frequently used the device of having day turn into night with a crescent moon in the sky, while someone was still thinking about something, as a means of showing that a lot of time had elapsed. Bill Watterson borrowed that device for Calvin and Hobbes.Here is an example from near the end of Johnny Hart’s 49-year career drawing B.C., just 3 years before Johnny died:Click here: B.C. (January 2, 2004)Here is what Bill Watterson said about Johnny Hart’s B.C.:“I admire the simplicity of B.C., the way Johnny Hart has gotten that strip down to the bare essentials. There’s nothing extraneous in the drawing, and the humor is very spartan. It doesn’t grab me, though, because I look for real involvement with characters, and the characters in B.C. are pretty much interchangeable; they’re props for humor. I think his style of humor is mostly in words, not in the characters. I look to strips like Peanuts, where you’re really involved with the characters; you feel that you know them. I guess that’s why I don’t enjoy B.C. quite as much. It’s better than many, though.”Following Johnny Hart’s death, Mason Mastroianni, Johnny’s grandson, took over the writing of the B.C. strip. He continues the use of the day/night/crescent-moon device in B.C.:Click here: B.C. (July 26, 2013)