Calvin once said "The secret to happiness is to lower your expectations to such a level where they are already met". Somehow, in this high octane, winner gets all world, it seems to make all the sense. I mean what is it we are running after ? Why the rush ? Who exactly are we racing against and why ?




The above strip is especially important in C&H history because it recounts Watterson's travails as he fought to protect his artistic integrity. The strip is a veiled attack on the cartoon syndicate when it was trying to force Watterson to merchandise his strip, something that he was vehemently against. In his Kenyon speech, Watterson has mentioned how such 'business decisions' sought to take him away from his true love and tried to turn his characters into empty symbols and how the syndicate failed to understand Watterson's earnest refusal for earn extra millions by consenting to Hobbes dolls and Calvin coffee cups.What the syndicate failed to see was that it was indeed a black and white decision for Watterson as he mentions in the strip. His love for cartooning far outweighed his desire to make money out of it and that is one of the reasons I have so much respect for him.