Calvin & Hobbes C or D

it's a pretty quick read, and i learned 17 crazy things about calvin's future that will completely change the way i view Calvin & Hobbes

(#14 is the craziest!)

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ab/0f/d0/ab0fd0fe03675686b7df1b3d6fa3d8f8.jpg

fuck this nerd shit, I'm all for fan whatever but not for calvin and hobbes

Not for any creators who've been crystal clear about their dislike of others using their IP.

Forgot how funny this was. Re-reading Weirdos from another planet

no
they are not.
praise is when you lick the cock and adulation is when you deep throat.
as well,
i dont like it.

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, April 14, 2003 2:33 AM (fifteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it is beyond classic

also beyond classic is the creator being one of the few to not sell out. he saved us from the inevitable funko pop where Calvin and Hobbes are both the exact same size and share the same dead eyed stare.

otm

Everything on the internet from pre-2012 should be scrubbed xp

also beyond classic is the creator being one of the few to not sell out. he saved us from the inevitable funko pop where Calvin and Hobbes are both the exact same size and share the same dead eyed stare.

my box set is still at my old apartment- this thread is a great reminder to go pick it up

Somehow forgot Hobbes is an imaginary friend for Calvin.
Anyways reading through weirdos and collected indispensable book next. Some of the funniest comics bar none, Calvin is too smart for his own good but also a real cool dude. Reading weirdos first as I’m worried the comp book will have repeats and I don’t want a greatest hits type experience with this stuff.

"indispensable" compiled "revenge of the baby-sat" and "scientific progress goes boink," so you're all clear.

Awesome!! Thank you

We should poll the non-compilation books. I think I had them all at one time. They were the ideal Christmas present.

that'd be tricky! so much of the strip's greatness is individual classic strips that to my memory could basically be in any book, or the brilliant beautiful sundays in the final years. but with a cheat sheet of major storylines in each one i could maybe make a judgment call. snow goons vs transmogrifier vs duplicator for the crazy elaborate ones, but dead bird vs binoculars vs class presentation on bats for the everyday observational ones.

Would love that

the storylines sounds a v good idea

there's so many others... transmogrifier gun, vacation road trip, rosalyn arcs, trip to mars, stuff with susie and moe at school. it was a strip of really diverse strengths, between the pogo-inspired rambling storylines, the nemo-inspired sunday bonanzas, and the one-day zingers of incredible cartooning or hilarious ever-notice-this writing. wouldn't know where to start if you had to put just one thing in front of somebody to explain why it was a special comic.... but, with no memory of what's in them, I'm guessing Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat or The Days Are Just Packed --- after the introduction of the oversized sunday pages, but (I think??) before the focus on those sort of curtailed the dailies back to gag-a-day or one-week bits (tho those remained brilliant, and brilliantly-drawn).

The last Rosalyn arc is sweet, where they finally make peace after she turns out to be surprisingly skillful at Calvinball.

Calvin is terrible to Susie. In weirdos from another planer he says her hair is hiding her lobotomy scars. I know he’s six years old, but the comic captures how abusive males treat females pretty accurately - that sort of damage lingers on.

Classic moment: Calvin hugging Hobbes as a Xmas gift

https://assets.amuniversal.com/9fe19e1018ad012f2fc600163e41dd5b

the faces in this one are so amazing

Hadn't seen that in years. So good.

https://i.imgur.com/Gf79M3v.png

damn

hot gen x take tbh.

C+H has really aged remarkably well. every time i've picked up one of my old books over the last few years i just marvel at how funny it is and how vividly and beautifully drawn it is.

lately i've found myself wondering how old calvin's parents are supposed to be. early 30s? obviously not a question that ever occurred to me as a kid, but it struck me the other day that i might be older than them now!

it struck me the other day that i might be older than them now!

Uncle Max breaks my heart

https://i.redd.it/evlad03a9hw21.jpg

I just cracked open a C&H book for the first time in over a decade and I’m already falling out laughing at this:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d0/49/a6/d049a6c8ea52f09ac85983d879ca5d14.gif

I think as a kid I did actually categorize Miss Wormwood and Rosalyn as "villains," when really they're the absolute heroes of this universe.

Moe is irredeemable.

"Sometimes I think ALL my friends have been imaginary."

"Like, you know, the guy with the orange cat who eats lasagna..."

^ https://www.reddit.com/r/calvinandhobbes/comments/749bfi/uncle_max_lyman_theory/

surly morning calvin looks like john terry

I just cracked open a C&H book for the first time in over a decade and I’m already falling out laughing at this

Xxp
Lol. I love obscure knowledge/insight about funnies. I think Lyman got dropped because people were asking if Jon and Lyman were lovers

did u know about this year's big garfield revelation?
https://youtu.be/ZSPidZP_3X8?t=534

i remember seeing that older drawing of Garfield in a Garfield book once, i don't think this is that big a revelation

!!!!

Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson has a book coming out in the fall. https://t.co/JytiWwnV8B

— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) February 14, 2023

holy shit

O_O

OH DARN

Ok!

this was not the reason I feared the thread got bumped, thank God.

This is great. What a legend

lol yeah him dying seemed way more likely than him releasing something

Hmm:

For the book's illustrations, Watterson and caricaturist John Kascht worked together for several years in unusually close collaboration. Both artists abandoned their past ways of working, inventing images together that neither could anticipate—a mysterious process in its own right.