The success of this new approach is very easy to see when you compare the first couple of conventional Sunday pages shown in this volume to the complete half-pagers that follow it. This would take up less space than a full page but the trade-off was papers would have to print it without altering it. It all adds up to a very unsatisfactory experience that imposes a weird rhythm on Sunday strips and prevents artists from using the space to its fullest potential.įinally, Watterson suggested a compromise: he would draw a half-page Sunday strip. Readers of some newspapers will only see half of the panels drawn for a Sunday strip by the time editors have finished trimming them. Worse than this is the requirement to make the top tier and second panel of each Sunday strip disposable elements, so that papers can drop those parts altogether if they want to. Creators have to use a very rigid format of pre-sized panels, which allows papers to alter strips to fit into their newspaper layouts.
This also makes for a much heftier book size where the previous volumes averaged 120 pages each, this collection is 176 pages.īill Watterson has discussed how restrictive he found the standard formatting of Sunday pages. Now there are two daily strips per page rather than three, and each Sunday strip is reproduced on a full colour page, just as it would have appeared in newspapers. The Days are Just Packed is the same height as previous volumes, but much wider, so that the size of the strips printed inside increases substantially and you can really examine Watterson’s artwork which gets better and better. With this volume, the shape of these ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ reprints changes to a landscape format.
With the advent of its exciting new size, The Days Are Just Packed has topped the bestseller lists even quicker than Calvin lands in the principal's office.This is the eighth volume of Bill Watterson’s collected newspaper strip, but the first to feature Sunday pages in colour. All seven Calvin and Hobbes collections have sold over one million copies within a year of publication. Bill Watterson's work appears in more than 2,200 newspapers worldwide and is consistently voted "favorite comic" in reader's polls. In eight years, Calvin and Hobbes has conquered the syndicated cartoon world. And dozens of Sunday strips are lavishly reproduced in color for The Days Are Just Packed, along with Calvin's always amusing weekday adventures. Nowhere does the spiky-haired miscreant stretch out more than in the Sunday paper. And the new volume's oversized 12-by-9 inch format provides Calvin's outrageous fantasies room to explode. Calvin, the irrepressible pint-sized tyrant, is always bursting with energy. Zounds! Spaceman Spiff, Stupendous Man, the ferocious tiger Hobbes, and the rest of Calvin's riotous imagination are all included in The Days Are Just Packed.
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