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christ, i love C & H and all but all the Peanuts bashing on this thread from oh-so-hip post-Simpsons kids makes me want to beat my head against the wall. have you people got no fucking SOUL?

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 06:43 (twenty years ago) link

Weird. No more than an hour ago, I read a great, five-page-long online article about an artist who went out several years ago at the top of his game, and who's been pretty much a recluse ever since, never really explaining why he left. An article that quotes the locals, interjects personal comments, etc. The article was about Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 06:54 (twenty years ago) link

This thread made me do a search, and I found this

Let's enter Nerve.com's bad erotica writing contest!

WOW

― sucka (sucka), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 13:55 (twenty years ago) link

Calvin & Hobbes == Tweeists
Peanuts == Geezaesthes
Surely Peanuts == emo?

― The Yellow Kid, Sunday, 7 December 2003 09:45 (twenty years ago) link

emo = clever twee cuteness disguised as fake unhappiness
Peanuts = genuine incredibly bleak fucked-upness disguised as clever twee cuteness

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 7 December 2003 10:04 (twenty years ago) link

they posted audio clips from the gary groth/charles schulz interview on the comics journal site last month. TRULY CLASSIC quote from same: asked what he thinks of "dennis the menace," schulz sez: "i don't like annoying little kids."

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 7 December 2003 10:19 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

I love Calvin & Hobbes.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:20 (nineteen years ago) link

It was my religion for several years.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:55 (nineteen years ago) link

possibly the most accurate representation of [stable middle class Western] childhood ever

― Chinua Achebe, Thursday, 6 January 2005 00:06 (nineteen years ago) link

What I love about C&H is the fact that I can pick up any of the books, flip to a random comic, and either laugh out loud at a strip I've loved in the past or discover something completely new and genius in a strip I've already read but haven't quite appreciated. There's so much great grown-up humor to compliment the already hilarious kid stuff. Anyone can enjoy it.

And for going on 10 years now, the only thing that has continually gotten me close to crying is the last strip. The emptyness of the last panel just opens a hole in my heart like nothing else.

― lemin (lemin), Thursday, 6 January 2005 00:38 (nineteen years ago) link

huge DUD. the reason why:
http://www.decaldriveway.com/shop/productPics/cus001.jpg

― contribute, Thursday, 6 January 2005 00:39 (nineteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/calvin_remix.jpg

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Thursday, 6 January 2005 00:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Who else imagines Calvin as George W. Bush's childhood self--destructive, unable to pay attention, contemptuous of the joys of intellectual discipline, spoiled little rich fuck, cute?

― Leibniz # Pasal, Thursday, 6 January 2005 00:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Calvin's not rich. Also, even sans schooling he's smarter and more articulate than W.

― lemin (lemin), Thursday, 6 January 2005 00:57 (nineteen years ago) link

three months pass...

Revive!

If you say "dud" you have no soul.

And remember, at midnight opposite day is over, right?

"Yes."

Calvin and Hobbes fans, feast your eyes on this!!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 01:12 (nineteen years ago) link

B-b-b-b-b-b-b-but I already HAVE ALL THE BOOKS!!!

― Jimmy Mod Knows You Eat Your Own Farts (ModJ), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 01:38 (nineteen years ago) link

But you don't have them in hardcover editions with a handsome slipcover!

Sadly, I have to buy this. This is not going to be optional, even though I also have the individual books. CURSES.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 02:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I must have.

― Lethal Dizzle (djdee2005), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 03:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I will do the better option and see if my family wants to go in on this as a gift for my dad for Xmas (we did similar last year with The Complete Far Side, which had him paralytic with laughter for all of Xmas day).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 03:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I've got to have this, too. I don't care that I have all the books... I don't have a choice!

― luna's e, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 04:20 (nineteen years ago) link

OH YEEEEEAAHHHH!

(oh no!)

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 08:42 (nineteen years ago) link

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

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