Calvin & Hobbes C or D

pearls before pearls before swine tbh

this is like Salinger coming back to write an episode of Family Guy

lol

sadly it's him
http://stephanpastis.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/ever-wished-that-calvin-and-hobbes-creator-bill-watterson-would-return-to-the-comics-page-well-he-just-did/

Tragically, a man did something for fun

Itheyre bad strips imo

this is like Salinger coming back to write an episode of Family Guy

Would have watched

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2014/06/06/exclusive-calvin-and-hobbes-creator-bill-watterson-returns-to-the-comics-page-to-offer-a-few-pearls-gems/?hpid=z1

A few more details

Tragically, a man did something for fun

otm, plus bonus round of fun as people share their Important Opinions about how they'd have done it better

yeah, plus the art is about a 1000 times sharper, funnier and more ambitious than what you usually get from pearls, so i don't see what anyone has to complain about.

this is awesome

Those were pretty funny & great.

Watterson's Angoulême 2015 Festival Poster:

http://www.paulgravett.com/site/pg_blog_post/bill_wattersons_angouleme_2015_festival_poster

Seems to be a bit more active lately...

lol @ the rock/window switcheroo

also the cop's big nose reminded me of moe the bully

Excerpts from new Watterson interview:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/03/09/bill-watterson-talks-this-is-why-you-must-read-the-new-exploring-calvin-and-hobbes-book/

Sorry, actual excerpts here:
http://library.osu.edu/blogs/cartoons/2015/03/10/new-bill-watterson-retrospective-book-exploring-calvin-and-hobbes-shines-new-light-on-wattersons-thought-process-inspirations/

and here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/03/10/read-heres-an-excerpt-from-bill-wattersons-rare-new-calvin-and-hobbes-interview/

i love c-&-h

i read some strips years ago, and it did nothing for me.

then along came mk1, and mk2, and 5 years ago i read an omnibus book that bh had picked up in a charity shop, and i would read a chunk every evening. on many an occasion i would end up crying with laughter.

so much so, that bh me banned from reading it while she was watching tv.

I've been reading a few pages a night out of my many collections as a bedtime story for my 6 year old, and he absolutely loves them. I was in my 20s/30s when the strips were new, so it's been very interesting to see what tickles a kid's funnybone (much), what I have to explain, and what I have to Bowdlerize.

People are passing this bullshit around fb today: http://www.tickld.com/x/this-guy-just-changed-the-way-we-seecalvin-and-hobbes

It's pissing me off, but I don't want to pick fights with people about Calvin & Hobbes, because Calvin & Hobbes is above it. But this schlocky sentimental fanfic bullshit is maddening.

http://i.imgur.com/tLU2FFd.jpg

http://uploads.neatorama.com/images/posts/191/71/71191/1397608679-0.jpg

did ... did hobbes maul calvin

http://i.imgur.com/9lZZFBK.jpg

lol at the idea that calvin will grow up to marry susie, i mean wtf is that

pplains omg thank you

Good on Watterston for never selling out, all manner of weak fan fiction and manipulative nostalgic/sentimental bs will never detract from the pure anarchic beauty of Calvin and Hobbes.

i hate this soooooooo much

the one where it was implied that Calvin was on Ritalin was a lot worse. this one is just stupid

pplains omg thank you

Yeah I agree

I'm actually quite angry about that. Fan fiction is the worst

worse than fan fiction is anything that is mawkishly sentimental about aging or the future death of yourself, your parents, or a beloved fictional character. like why would I make a kid read the giving tree. damn that shit was a bummer as an elementary school kid. Thanks mom.

That is so perverse and gross that I wish I'd written it.

Once a text is out there, I don't really understand getting 'angry' about the sappy ways that people make use of it for their own pleasure - these fan things don't displace or erase the original, surely?

Looks like it originated from a Reddit writing prompt. The author probably wasn't intending some little half-hour writing exercise to be widely shared. I blame the people writing headlines like "This Guy Just Changed The Way We See Calvin And Hobbes. Seriously."

https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/25gtsw/eu_in_the_final_minutes_of_his_life_calvin_has/

You won't believe how this particular hastily-written piece of clickbait garbage will change your life forever. Seriously.

that is one of the worst things i've ever given up reading halfway through

have y'all ever read fanfiction before

in what world would i want to do that?

I actively try not to.

i just got out a calvin & hobbes book for my almost 6yo daughter to read, so I've been revisiting. kind of amazing how much better watterson was than pretty much anyone else who did a daily strip.

At the time? Probably. All time? No way.

agree, I'm no comic buff but never found any other strip that came close to doing what Calvin & Hobbes does for me - I pull out the books when I need sentimental/existential soothing (when hung over fx)

xp - i dunno, he's gotta be near the top, right?

but yeah, i am probably biased -- he was the best daily strip by far back when i actually read daily strips.

Well, I'm sure Watterson would place in most ppl's top ten newspaper strip creators, but to suggest that he's 'much better' than Charles Schulz, or Crockett Johnson, or countless other creators who might also place in that top ten, seems p hyperbolic imho.

^^^

the part where he stops susie with a passionate kiss on the lips is awesome

pplains wins

this bullshit was hateshared by vg on fb & I was mostly annoyed because I was sure I had hidden tickld from my feed (I mean, I know I have, I keep track of these things)

so I go to hide the post & get this:

Hide all from Texting someone to say that you are outside their house instead of knocking
Are you sure you want to hide posts from Texting someone to say that you are outside their house instead of knocking?

this shit always finds a way in :-(