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Slate has a good essay on Calvis and Hobbes, disguised as an illustrated slideshow [click on the images to proceed].

Though the essay deals with the pending death of newspaper comics as a genre, it says something about culture as well.

There will always be mediocre comic strips,” Watterson said in a 1989 speech titled “The Cheapening of the Comics,” “but we have lost much of the potential for anything else.

see this previous entry on eamelje.net as well