Comedian and illustrator Craig Mahoney has touched the internet’s heart. And it’s a shock to him because he’s a guy who thought he was known for crude jokes about genitals.
But his painting of a grown-up Calvin and Hobbes has become insanely popular, after it was picked up by the Huffington Post.
It’s the site’s number one story, and it’s all down to the power of Mahoney’s artwork.
Bill Waterson’s comic strip about an adventurous boy and his sardonic tiger ran for ten years in more than 2000 newspapers worldwide but despite finishing almost 20 years ago, it still has a powerful hold on the generation that grew up reading it (perhaps because Watterson refused to merchandise the hell out of his creation).
