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This thread (revival) made me get all my C&H books out from the "kids books" box and wonder why the hell I hadn't unpacked them ages ago (okay, need another bookshelf, but still!) So I read a bit before bed and seriously had the best dreams I've had in ages and woke up feeling really happy. So. nice.

I also need that book, wow. It's going to sell *a lot* as a Christmas present.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 12:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Why did you have to post that link!? Egads, I will have to purchase that.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 14:23 (nineteen years ago) link

i think this is gonna be the definitive edition that will be on my bookshelf long after the paperback C&H's get turned to dust or torn up or whatever happens to books when young kids get a hold of them. if anything is worth it, this is.

― lemin (lemin), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 14:48 (nineteen years ago) link

watterson was a professed atheist, right? well, somehow i was aware of this as a 7th grader and a son of a baptist minister. i also knew my dad was aware of the fact. but we loved the strip as a family. LOVED it. had the books, etc. which was kinda strange looking back. enjoying the work of a known atheist as a family. props to my folks for not being complete dumbasses.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

it doesn't look like there'll be new strips and it's a blatant ploy to sell some new book or other, but...

http://www.amuniversal.com/ups/features/thereturn/index.htm

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 27 May 2005 15:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Wasn’t Hobbes always going on about New Orleans and/or jazz? OR something? God, that strip was one of the ONLY reasons to read the funnies as a kid and it’s still wonderful. As someone who didn’t have many close friends as a kid (before and after the age of 7) and spent a lot of time using my imagination to stave off boredom, I related to C&H a lot, though that realization’s just hitting me as I read this thread.

Bloom County appealed to my sense of the bizarre, a weird-take on pop culture at its best and just B.Breathed losing his mind at its worst.

I always liked Peanuts but it wasn’t really for kids, was it? I imagine you have to be middle aged to really GET that strip.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 27 May 2005 15:33 (nineteen years ago) link

i find not so funny, maybe too sentimental nowadays, but it's beautifully drawn

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 27 May 2005 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I imagine you have to be middle aged to really GET that strip.

I must disagree, especially since you can say that just as much about Calvin and Hobbes in terms of the convoluted jokes and references. Both strips work astoundingly well for different ages -- the 3 year old Peanuts fan that is now the 34 year old one sez this, so it must be true. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 May 2005 15:51 (nineteen years ago) link

i don't think watterson was a professed atheist - certain C&H strips suggest he's agnostic (all the ones with calvin wondering about the philosophical implications of no santa claus), but he only gave like three interviews in his life so it's hard to say for sure.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 27 May 2005 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link

My nephew, now grown, spent summers at my place when he was a kid, and though we shared many interests, this one was a standout. I still read the books from time to time, laugh a lot and think of him.

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 28 May 2005 01:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Calvin & Hobbes is my all time favorite comic, hands down. Off the top of my head, one of my most favorite strips is the classic when his Dad misplaces his glasses, and Calvin marches in, hair in a combover saying 'Calvin, go do something you hate! Being miserable builds character!'...I like it b/c of Calvin's hair, and his mum, who's on the floor in hysterics.

Oh, and every snowman/snow monster/snow shovelling/snow-related strip.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 May 2005 01:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Only now do I realize the influence this strip had on me growing up. Classic.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 28 May 2005 02:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I def need to get that complete book when it comes out. I enjoyed the one collection that explained Watterson's standing when it came to syndication etc.

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 28 May 2005 07:18 (nineteen years ago) link

woah - re: this 'return' - has calvin and hobbes not been syndicated in reruns lately? i remember reading it in stars and stripes well after it wrapped but the atlanta paper only runs 'current' strips (though they've made an exception with peanuts reruns). the ups site sez on the c&h feature page 'only available outside north america' - why??

― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 28 May 2005 07:51 (nineteen years ago) link

if they haven't been syndicating it i dunno why not, a C&H strip i've read 10 times is still funnier than 99.5 percent of the rest of that stupid page.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 28 May 2005 07:54 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Robot Chicken meets C&H

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA64g3pi97M

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 9 November 2006 08:07 (seventeen years ago) link

hahaha

― internet downpause (kenan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 08:47 (seventeen years ago) link

It's rather like Brazil, isn't it?

― internet downpause (kenan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 08:49 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

http://www.gocomics.com/lio/2008/01/20/

― Oilyrags, Sunday, 20 January 2008 14:47 (sixteen years ago) link

heh. he's had at least one other c&h related strip.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Sunday, 20 January 2008 15:05 (sixteen years ago) link

Calvin & Hobbes are classic.

http://i27.tinypic.com/1zx5tns.jpg

― StanM, Sunday, 20 January 2008 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link

heh. he's had at least one other c&h related strip.
-- GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Sunday, January 20, 2008 3:05 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Yeah, Heart of the City has notable similarities, too.

― Oilyrags, Sunday, 20 January 2008 18:28 (sixteen years ago) link

Perhaps the most baffling comment in this thread came early on...

About as many as had stuffed tigers who they believed to be real.

Imagination goes hand in hand with childhood.

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, 20 January 2008 18:32 (sixteen years ago) link

two years pass...

Watterson speaks!

http://www.cleveland.com/living/index.ssf/2010/02/bill_watterson_creator_of_belo.html

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 1 February 2010 19:34 (fourteen years ago) link

that guy has his head screwed on imo

― MPx4A, Monday, 1 February 2010 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link

Urgent and key:

"An artwork can stay frozen in time, but I stumble through the years like everyone else. I think the deeper fans understand that, and are willing to give me some room to go on with my life."

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 1 February 2010 21:54 (fourteen years ago) link

six months pass...

http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/

― Un peu d'Eire, ça fait toujours Dublin (Michael White), Friday, 13 August 2010 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link

one year passes...

saw a hipstery dude on the tram this morning with the dancing calvin & hobbes tattooed around his arm. part of me found it charming, the other part wanted to kick him in the nuts until he blacked out

― dogs in hot cardies (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 02:38 (twelve years ago) link

At least it wasn't a tatoo of Christian Calvin or Pissing Calvin

― where is fake disneyworld (blank), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 02:56 (twelve years ago) link

― dogs in hot cardies (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 02:56 (twelve years ago) link

"Needless to say, Frank's family was upset he didn't come home that night, but everybody understood that the human population had doubled in just two generations to almost six billion, so some thinning of the herds was necessary to prevent starvation."

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 03:02 (twelve years ago) link

"So this is the famed space explorer Spiff! I've waited a long time for this moment earthling scum! You have knowledge we need. Cooperate and we'll kill you rather painlessly.

"Let's dispense with the pleasantries you twisted space crustacean. What is it you want from me?"

"A summary of Lewis and Clark's expedition to the Pacific!"

"Ha! Wild Zontars couldn't drag that information out of me! Do your worst!"

"You didn't read the assignment did you Calvin?"

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 03:18 (twelve years ago) link

seven months pass...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fingerprintfilms/dear-mr-watterson-a-calvin-and-hobbes-documentary

would watch emphatically

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 29 June 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link

two months pass...

http://www.mediumdevice.com/images/calvin_and_hobbes_cubism.jpg

Beyond awesome.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 8 September 2012 21:21 (eleven years ago) link

googled the sequence i probably laughed the hardest at back in the day (i was a solitary 6yrold only child w a stuffed animal when i discovered c&h so yknow it was of some minor interest to me) and what do you know it has its own website. good.

― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 8 September 2012 22:04 (eleven years ago) link

oh I love the smock!!

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 September 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link

This is one of my favorites

http://multifamilyinvestor.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/calvin-hobbes-world-black-white-color.jpg

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 September 2012 22:15 (eleven years ago) link

http://schwicky.net/calvin/images/vaentines_day.jpg

Last panel is a favorite, Hobbes w/his big hot-dog-shaped smile and rubbing his palms. "Smooch city, here I come!" has been a personal mantra for years.

― ms fotheringham (Crabbits), Saturday, 8 September 2012 22:15 (eleven years ago) link

i think of that color/b&w one all the time

― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 8 September 2012 22:16 (eleven years ago) link

i love the hobbes/susie thing. look at your stuffed tiger! he's wearing a TIE! that's ADORABLE!

all right, you were right. girls flip for ties. you can stop winking at me.

― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 8 September 2012 22:17 (eleven years ago) link

Yeah I love how Hobbes moons over Susie

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 September 2012 22:22 (eleven years ago) link

mr. bun seems comatose. did you notice?

― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 8 September 2012 22:24 (eleven years ago) link

how could anyone think dud?

― Number None, Saturday, 8 September 2012 22:29 (eleven years ago) link

This one's all time - mainly for the last panel. The Mom cracks me up

http://i671.photobucket.com/albums/vv74/jlohnik/Calvin%20and%20Hobbes%20Strips/ch901207.gif

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 September 2012 22:31 (eleven years ago) link

i LOVE that one cuz i love the ref to the voice we can't hear.

― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 8 September 2012 22:32 (eleven years ago) link

and Calvin looks hilar with his hair combed like that

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 September 2012 22:35 (eleven years ago) link

http://cdn1.sbnation.com/imported_assets/1025872/CH870328_JPG.jpg

― Number None, Saturday, 8 September 2012 22:36 (eleven years ago) link

Calvin tiger is adorable

― Farrah Abraham had many songs/ many songs had Farrah Abraham (m bison), Saturday, 8 September 2012 22:37 (eleven years ago) link

would cuddle

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 September 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link

http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1990/07/24

i think you'll find THIS chart quite revealing.

― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 8 September 2012 22:55 (eleven years ago) link

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