That same feeling of excitement rarely comes as an adult, but this feeling was very close. Well, of course I lined up the rubber masks and prepared ever sort of high-tech method of audio and visual monster I could think of, sitting and waiting for the proper moment to pounce. It was that same excitement I would feel when I knew my sister was having a multi-girl slumber party and I was told by my parents not to scare them. knowing I shouldn't do something makes me want to do it all the more. It's a perversity that harks back to my childhood. And there's nothing I like skewering more than a sacred cow. MARK TATULLI: Well, "Calvin and Hobbes" is sort of this sacred cow among comic strips that others dare not touch - although you do see spoofs online.but print people tend to stay away.
MICHAEL CAVNA: When did inspiration strike that you wanted to spoof "Calvin & Hobbes," and how much time/energy/money did it take to convince AMU that it was indeed an inspired idea? The back cover features a photo (taken by the creator's son) of Tatulli mimicking the iconic Watterson image - one of the very few publicity stills of Watterson actually known to exist.Ĭomic Riffs caught up with Tatulli to talk spoofs, goofs and whether Lio the silent upstart speaks volumes about the creator's own personality. The front cover features Lio excavating a "Calvin" skull while his pet cephalopod examines a stuffed Hobbes. "The more they balked, the more I knew this was right." Then they tried another tact: They said it wasn't funny nobody would get it it's bad taste would hurt sales. "They sent messages through my editor, at first outright rejecting it. "Mostly, it was the nameless suits in AMU corporate that were against it," Tatulli tells Comic Riffs. Not that the publisher, Andrews McMeel/Universal, was initially too thrilled with Tatulli's spoofing of their universally acclaimed property that is "Calvin and Hobbes." Numerous cartoonists have been accused over the years of borrowing their inspiration a little too liberally from "Calvin and Hobbes." But "Lio" creator MARK TATULLI might be the first to stand accused of borrowing his actual look a mite too directly from the great and reclusive Watterson.Ĭomic Riffs, though, does give Tatulli credit: The front and back covers to his just-released "Lio" collection, "There's Corpses Everywhere," might well be the most inspired cartoon "jacket" we've seen this summer. Will the real bespectacled, besweatered Bill Watterson please stand up? Because a fellow Universal Press Syndicate creator, it seems, is cribbing your look. (Images courtesy of Universal Press Syndicate & Mike Lynch Cartoons)
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