Newspaper Comics_Week 3

For this assignment I read Charles Schultz’s Peanuts and Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes. While reading several strips, it became very apparent that these were designed with adults in mind. 

Although I know many people who associate newspaper comics with children. Because of current associations with children and comics in our present day. But while reading it, I was presented with jokes or punch lines that only an adult would understand. 

The two comics share a large part of their charm together. There about children observing the world with a ‘I don’t quite understand how the whole world works yet, but I am observing it how i see it’ charm. Meaning, you can make snappy judgment about how your life is going to turn out when you grow up. 

While Calvin and Hobbes was much more adventure, imagination, and childhood fun. Allowing the reader to remember the good old days when they had stuffed animals, tried not to go to school, and their worst part of the day was going to bed. 

Peanuts had kids doing kid things with simplistic humor with children hanging out and making jokes that adults, the intended audience, would find funny such as the kids making jokes about taxes, or having one-word comebacks that usually link to an adult term in the work force.