Everything I need to know in life I learned from a comic strip

There have been contemporary adaptations of the comic strip on television. Cartoons like Popeye, and even as modern as the Simpsons and Family Guy have addressed political and social issues in their own way, but I haven't found one as wildly powerful and lovable as my favorite read in Calvin and Hobbes. The strip ran for ten years from 1985 to 1995, and the comic artist and author Bill Watterson uses the simplicity and innocence of a young six year old boy with a fantastic vocabulary and philosophic tone to make his readers laugh at both themselves and he antics of a boy and his stuffed tiger. People have a tendency to quote movies and television shows, and look at someone who doesn't recognize their allusion as though they were from another world. You are out of the loop if you don't know what Al Pacino was saying an hour into Scarface, yet most people would never recognize the faces of those formerly famous characters from the Sunday Comics. I don;t consider myself aloof from popular culture, I am sure I take in a much media as the next 21 year old but I do find it interesting how things advance and change from year to year. How may people rad the Sunday Comics rather than watch their television? How many people pay for a CD instead of downloading it, and the same trend with movies now. Comics may someday die, but until then, I'm sure movie production companies will squeeze the life out of them by trying to make 'live action' renditions of them on the big screen