Wishing for More ‘Calvin and Hobbes’

Bill Watterson’s homage (“Drawn Into a Dark but Gentle World, Dec. 21) to Charles Schulz, “Peanuts” and the gang was very apt. Their departure will leave a hole in our lives. What could help fill that gap would be the return of Watterson’s “Calvin and Hobbes.”

HARRY M. BAUER

Sherman Oaks

Via e-mail

Editor’s Note: Before Watterson decided to retire after 10 years, “Calvin and Hobbes” appeared in 2,500 newspapers.

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Mr. Watterson expressed everything I have felt after learning of Mr. Schulz’s illness and retirement, and my admiration and appreciation for having them as long as we have, mirrors everything in the article.

However, whereas Mr. Watterson implies that we will likely never have anything comparable, when he wishes, “May there someday be a writer-artist-philospher-humorist who can fill even part of the void ‘Peanuts’ leaves behind,” I must say that there are likely many of us who feel that if anyone could come close to filling this role, that it would be Mr. Watterson.

As a pediatrician who specializes in treating ADHD kids who resemble Calvin everyday, I cannot tell you how much I miss “Calvin and Hobbes,” and request that you implore Mr. Watterson to rethink his own retirement. It would, in its proper time, soften the loss of “Peanuts.”

RICHARD JACOBSON, M.D.

Granada Hills