Calvin & Hobbes C or D

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.

Yeah I love how Hobbes moons over Susie

mr. bun seems comatose. did you notice?

how could anyone think dud?

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

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

and Calvin looks hilar with his hair combed like that

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

Calvin tiger is adorable

would cuddle

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

i think you'll find THIS chart quite revealing.

Household six year olds were polled on their favorite bedtimes

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."

really disappointed that I didn't think to use 'attack of the stupid fruity crazy swag goons' when that was the rolling goon title

Dear Mr. Watterson documentary hitting festivals next month.

a sweet tribute:

http://zenpencils.com/comic/128-bill-watterson-a-cartoonists-advice/

oh wow I love that!

Yeah, that's pretty amazing.

i love how he even captures the way watterson draws trees.

the series of strips with the sick bird that ended with this was just..

http://i29.tinypic.com/2vcj7uu.jpg

wasn't it a raccoon?

there's one Sunday strip where he finds a dead bird. but that's different.

oh yeah!

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.

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.

sacrilege :/ sorry

sacrilege how

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmRI3Ew4BvA

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

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.

He's carried on producing C&H strips, he just locks them up in a big safe next to all his Glass family manuscripts

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.

I thought he just wanted to paint watercolours

He works under a pseudonym -- he does XKCD now

late work:

http://questionablecontent.net/comics/300.png

it's already getting attributed to watterson directly http://imgur.com/gallery/V6KoHbF

it's a lovely homage

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'

Good job but it's way too self-aggrandizing to come from him.

I want to, but I can't let that *thing* Listening Hour posted go by without comment, so ... UUURGH

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It's kind of creepy the way the girl in the homage strip is just Calvin with a wig

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.

<3

sacrilege how

― 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.

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.

“I worked too long to get this job, and worked too hard once I got it, to let other people run away with my creation once it became successful. If I could not control what my own work was about and stood for, then cartooning meant very little to me.”

It's funny that the guy quotes this, then does exactly that. The comments are full of people wanting to buy this print. This tribute is well done, and it's cool that people want to do a kickstarter documentary about him or whatever, but it is sort of sad that his authenticity has ultimately become a commodity.

otm. it's kind of just a twee version of a Calvin-peeing-on bumper sticker.

hahaha

that was not a lovely homage wtf