I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.
A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.