The Famous Mutant Snowman
Yesterday Hank posted a baffling strip involving a creepy looking snowman and small boys. Does this sound familiar? The specific origin of when funny snowmen first made their appearance in the humor pages is unknown, but this comic strip device was made famous by cartoonist Bill Waterson of Calvin and Hobbes. He even named a book after it. There are numerous ways in which Calvin has expressed himself through the creation of snowmen. Most of the C&H strips involving funny snowmen don't even involve Calvin, rather they have his parents discovering just how deranged their child is.Check out these great Calvin and Hobbes examples. How unsettling is that third strip?
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posted by Marilla P. Alligator at
9:14 AM
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Watterson made the weird looking snowmen famous, but he certainly wasn't the first to use them. The inspiration came from Peanuts, as the recent Fantagraphics reprint series shows. There Linus (I think) rearranges the snowmen in his front yard to play a ballgame or something like that. If Watterson's variations weren't so good, the plaarism would have been blatent.
Yo, Ger. I wouldn't be surprised that somewhere within the library of Winsor McCay's wildly imaginative 'Little Nemo in Slumberland' (1905-1913) lies a twisted, dream-enhanced snowman.
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