heartbreaker

i thought of this recently when playing around with the Get Fuzzy post. also, several contacts have posted photos or written descriptions in recent days and weeks that made me remember Calvin & Hobbes (happy, funny, and some quite sad things alike).

this particular excerpt was from the series where they rescue a dying raccoon and it actually does die. sometimes a novel or a song or a photo or... you know, art, just nails the essence of a feeling or phenomenon and you love it for capturing that particular aspect of being alive. for me, these two panels are pretty much the most acute, distilled example of the way this strip consistently did just that.