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
Household six year olds were polled on their favorite bedtimes
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 September 2012 23:40 (eleven years ago) link
hahaha omg, i talk about the color/B&W all the time but I had completely forgotten "Not necessarily. A lot of great artists were insane."
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 9 September 2012 04:16 (eleven years ago) link
really disappointed that I didn't think to use 'attack of the stupid fruity crazy swag goons' when that was the rolling goon title
― 乒乓, Thursday, 7 February 2013 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
Dear Mr. Watterson documentary hitting festivals next month.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 4 March 2013 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
a sweet tribute:
http://zenpencils.com/comic/128-bill-watterson-a-cartoonists-advice/
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 00:59 (ten years ago) link
oh wow I love that!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 01:32 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, that's pretty amazing.
― Shart Week (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 01:37 (ten years ago) link
i love how he even captures the way watterson draws trees.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 01:37 (ten years ago) link
the series of strips with the sick bird that ended with this was just..
http://i29.tinypic.com/2vcj7uu.jpg
― piscesx, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 02:02 (ten years ago) link
wasn't it a raccoon?
― crüt, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 02:21 (ten years ago) link
there's one Sunday strip where he finds a dead bird. but that's different.
― crüt, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 02:22 (ten years ago) link
oh yeah!
― piscesx, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 02:22 (ten years ago) link
thanks for finding that jd. when i was a kid i pored over the 10th anniversary collection and any other scraps of actual watterson-prose i could find and it was clear to me how strongly he felt about merchandising/marketing/consumerism and how angry he got just writing about it but i didn't understand why at all so as i've gotten older, and learned why, and realized what a kind of radical ascetic he was (is), he's kind of unlocked as a personal hero. plus the strip, obv.
the jeep in the spiff-landscape is a neatly compressed desecration.
― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 02:33 (ten years ago) link
i mean, i understood that he wanted to retain control of his characters, but i didn't understand what it was like to grow up here.
― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 02:37 (ten years ago) link
sacrilege :/ sorry
― brimstead, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 02:37 (ten years ago) link
sacrilege how
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 03:11 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmRI3Ew4BvA
― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 05:23 (ten years ago) link
http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/
― Un peu d'Eire, ça fait toujours Dublin (Michael White), Friday, August 13, 2010 6:46 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark
this is fucking amazing btw
― sktsh, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 08:58 (ten years ago) link
When Watterson quit Calvin & Hobbes, wasn't he supposed to move on to other comic/cartoon projects that he could produce without the pressure of drawing a daily strip? Whatever happened to those? I have all the respect for him for stopping C&H before it got stale, but it's kinda sad that he hasnät released anything ever since, for 18 years.
And I'm not saying he has some obligation to his readers/fans, if he doesn't want to or doesn't have the inspiration to produce any new material for the public, that's his prerogative. But it's still kinda sad, because it felt he could've still done more with the comic medium.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 11:09 (ten years ago) link
He's carried on producing C&H strips, he just locks them up in a big safe next to all his Glass family manuscripts
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 11:12 (ten years ago) link
I thought he just wanted to paint watercolours
― Number None, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 12:05 (ten years ago) link
He works under a pseudonym -- he does XKCD now
― Øystein, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 14:31 (ten years ago) link
late work:
http://questionablecontent.net/comics/300.png
― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 14:54 (ten years ago) link
it's already getting attributed to watterson directly http://imgur.com/gallery/V6KoHbF
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 17:08 (ten years ago) link
it's a lovely homage
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 17:22 (ten years ago) link
yeah a fb friend already shared it basically saying HAY LOOK AT THIS BILL WATTERSON COMIC and I was like, 'Wait...but it's not...ugh nevermind'
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
Good job but it's way too self-aggrandizing to come from him.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
I want to, but I can't let that *thing* Listening Hour posted go by without comment, so ... UUURGH
― Øystein, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 17:24 (ten years ago) link
Mogwai
― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 17:31 (ten years ago) link
MERCURY REV
DESERTER'S SONGS
MOGWAI
HAPPY SONGS FOR HAPPY PEOPLE
― Vinetalic - "My Friend Terio" (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 17:33 (ten years ago) link
It's kind of creepy the way the girl in the homage strip is just Calvin with a wig
― Number None, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 20:09 (ten years ago) link
Anyone who thinks Watterson drew that doesn't deserve to read Calvin & Hobbes ever again. Anyone who thinks he lettered it doesn't deserve eyes.
― ᕦ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ᕤ (sic), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 22:17 (ten years ago) link
<3
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 22:27 (ten years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, August 27, 2013 8:11 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
in the heat of the moment, it was a gut reaction to this sad fool appropriating watterson's words for self-aggrandiziing bs on top of annoying watterson-esque illustrations.
― brimstead, Thursday, 29 August 2013 00:38 (ten years ago) link
the rest of his blog looks terrible as well, but i haven't kept up with comics in almost 20 years so i can't talk.
― brimstead, Thursday, 29 August 2013 00:45 (ten years ago) link