Deja Vu Dans Non Sequitur

When Wiley Miller tires of New Yorker style one-panel political cartoons, he somewhat awkwardly jumps over to Calvin & Hobbes territory in, what some might consider, a plagiaristic manner. The only discernible difference being the main character's gender.

Calvin & Hobbes is about a boy and a tiger who would regularly go out into the forest on a small wagon and discuss socio-political issues. Now take that sentence and substitute Calvin & Hobbes for Non Sequitur, "boy" for "girl" and "tiger" for "horse" and you've got a perfect description of Wiley's second-hand creation. The personalities of the characters are absolutely identical.

I was willing to let slip the comic strip Zits because it, at least, focused on a different age group, but now that Non Sequitur, which had hitherto never attempted narrative, has muscled in on Bill Watterson's territory, I can no longer fake blindness.

Calvin & Hobbes easily ranks as one of the greatest comic strips of all time. Up there with Krazy Kat, Pogo and, to a lesser extent, Peanuts. If you attempt to emulate the successes of these masterworks, you'll be locked up in a flash.

Petitions don't work, do they? Oh well.