The Comic Strip

                The comic strip became popular when the newspaper became a definitive source to gather news and information besides the radio. Giving people amazing stories, visuals and laughs. I decided to read two very different styles of the comic strip, one for your action fix and the other to garner a few chuckles. Flash Gordon by Alex Raymond and Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Waterson. Two different sides of the same coin.

                Flash Gordon has the ability to keep people buying a newpaper if they only read them for the comics. Reading the one with Flash having to stop the Skorpi with trying to start an alliance with the Dhreen. The action for Flash Gordon is top notch, you can truly see the stakes of what could happen if he doesn’t save his self or if he needs to save someone else. He is also seen as a flawed character since he is to be married to Dale but kissing Ellta which causes her to fall in love with him and try to win him over despite is planned marriage. I think Flash is relatable to others by how he is just a human being with no real special powers. From what I’ve read anyway but he is still able to wage wars on other planets just to save Earth. I can see Flash Gordon being a hit amongst the younger male crowd.

                Calvin and Hobbes is always fun to read and I suspect everyone in the US has read a strip or two of the duo at some part of their lives if they realized it or not. Calvin is a little boy who has a imaginary find named Hobbes who’s a stuff tiger. To Calvin he is seen as a big tiger but to the rest of the world he is just a stuff animal. Because of this it usually means Calvin’s imagination is extremely vibrant. Other things coming to life like bathtub bubbles and his teacher becoming an alien monster. It makes me believe that sometimes Calvin might have ADHD since a lot of times with his teacher he is told to pay attention. The demographic for Calvin and Hobbes seems to be more for someone older than 13. It might be about a child but the themes are very adult like. But all the same Calvin and his friend are relatable to all of us.