It's one of my favourite kinds of world outlooks. It often takes the eyes of a child to outline the raw stupidity much of adult life is built upon, and comment appropriately. And they have the extra level of childish zanyness and general “awwww” factor that makes them palletable to a wider yet audience and prevents general depression. (The news could learn from this)

I'm sure most recogniseable among the comic strips would be Calvin & Hobbes, which - being a total looser - I've not read much of, but I do buy into some webcomics quite a bit.

I recently picked up (so to speak) Ozy & Millie, a webcomic about two 8 year old Foxes. It has the same general formula, comments on society/politics/religion/philosophy ([link] ), mixed with pleasant zanyness ( [link] ), aw factor ( [link] ); and it also has foxes in. So I'm quite fond of it so far.

For more examples, see Count Your Sheep - [link] and maybe LeastICouldDo Beginnings - [link]


What I was wondering is why do very few people appreciate it so much when the extra layer consists of another kind of lowest common denominator? The kind that's a much more accurate direction for most modern teens+?

Because as far as I'm aware, most intelligent people can see beyond a surface layer if it consists of “I'm cute”, but not if it consists of “Suck my balls”. South Park deserves more recognition than it gets - I don't care if you think it's blasphemy, it's this generation's Calvin & Hobbes.