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It Really IS A Magical World
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The big reveal has confirmed it: The art drawn by the "second grader" girl character this week in Stephan Pastis' comic strip "Pearls Before Swine" was drawn by "Calvin and Hobbes" creator Bill Watterson, making a brief and welcome comeback as a gag. I'm not sure I can think of an analogy for your work, but imagine if maybe the biggest legend in radio had been off the air for decades and said to you, "hey, let me do a shift posing as you. We won't tell anyone until it's over and we'll see if anyone can guess." Yeah, amazing. The sequence starts here and here setting up the joke (Pastis, a character in his own strip, makes fun of his own inability to draw well), and then Watterson's art shows up here, here, and here. The final strip, referencing the last "Calvin and Hobbes," is here. For a comics fan, this is awesome. Even if you're not a comics fan, the very idea that a legend comes out of retirement unannounced for three days is pretty great. (GoComics/StephanPastis.com)
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