― ejad (daje), Sunday, 13 April 2003 23:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 13 April 2003 23:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris P (Chris P), Sunday, 13 April 2003 23:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
classic, of course. i like Calvin's dad.
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 13 April 2003 23:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris P (Chris P), Sunday, 13 April 2003 23:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 13 April 2003 23:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris P (Chris P), Sunday, 13 April 2003 23:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ejad (daje), Sunday, 13 April 2003 23:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 13 April 2003 23:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris P (Chris P), Sunday, 13 April 2003 23:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 April 2003 00:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 14 April 2003 00:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan I., Monday, 14 April 2003 00:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan I., Monday, 14 April 2003 00:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ejad (daje), Monday, 14 April 2003 01:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 April 2003 01:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jm (jtm), Monday, 14 April 2003 02:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 April 2003 02:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 14 April 2003 02:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
there isn't much calvin and hobbes merchandise, either.
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 14 April 2003 02:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
Watterson has always made it clear that Calvin and Hobbes would not be licensed and essentially took his syndicate to the mat to get that to be the case -- it almost went to court. There is no official C/H merchandise.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 April 2003 02:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kirsten (kirsten), Monday, 14 April 2003 02:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
:' (
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 14 April 2003 02:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 14 April 2003 03:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jm (jtm), Monday, 14 April 2003 03:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 14 April 2003 04:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Monday, 14 April 2003 05:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
Bill Watterson had some interesting things to say about Peanuts in the C & H 10th anniversary book. I'll try to dig it out later.
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 14 April 2003 05:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
as well, i dont like it.
― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 14 April 2003 05:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
Fave C&H, when they're on the long car journey and Calvin wants to "visit the bathroom", says so and his mother tells him to think of other things. Calvin loudly announces that all he can think of is Niagara Falls and the Hoover Dam, his mother says that now *she* wants to go and the father mutters something abt going on vacation on his own next time!
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 14 April 2003 06:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 14 April 2003 06:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 14 April 2003 07:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 14 April 2003 07:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 14 April 2003 07:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
Peanuts never seemed to be taking place anywhere in particular; Calvin obviously had the biggest backyard in the country.
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 14 April 2003 07:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
Of course, that would have totally thrown off the dynamics of the strip.
But so yeah: C&H was more about internal escapism, and Peanuts was about social interaction. The thing is, Peanuts also did a good job with internal escapism (especially with Snoopy); C&H's social dynamics never got nearly as complex as Peanuts'.
― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 14 April 2003 07:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
"We actually had a dog called Snoopy. A real dog. Fans of the strip are not going to like this, but we got rid of him. He fought with other dogs, so we swapped him for a load of gravel."
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 14 April 2003 07:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
Favourite strip? Either the one where Calvin burps outrageously at the dinner table and his whole face contorts astonishingly before he says summat like "Better out than in!" and summat else exquisitely unpolite before his mom says "Three strikes and you're out kiddo"; or else the one that's on my desktop wallpaper;
Calvin & Hobbes listening to the radio; Calvin breaks into lengthy spiel...
Calvin - "The problem with rock n roll is that the generation that created it is now the establishment. Rock pretends it's rebellious with it's video posturing, but who believes it? The stars are 45-year-old zillionaires or they endorse soft drinks! The 'revolution' is a capitalist industry! Give me a break! Fortunately, I've found some protest music for today's youth! This stuff really offends mom and dad!"
Hobbes - "Easy-listening muzak?"
Calvin - "I play it real quiet too."
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 14 April 2003 07:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 14 April 2003 08:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 14 April 2003 08:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
The only times he seems to want to step outside that reality - the valentine for Suzy scenario - it adds a layer of awkwardness that doesn't really work (tho it's cute, obv), and Watterson says the same.
Totally, unequivocally classic.
― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 14 April 2003 08:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.ksu.edu/english/nelp/images/johnson.books/barnaby_and_mr_omalley.sm.jpeg
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 14 April 2003 08:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 14 April 2003 08:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
mark s - Can you find any pix of Calvin's snowmen when he goes all avante garde and surrealist? They're so cool...
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 14 April 2003 09:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 14 April 2003 09:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 14 April 2003 09:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
When viewed in these terms, the inevitable vistory of C&H is made clear.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 14 April 2003 09:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 14 April 2003 13:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
No, hang on, what d'you mean explain? It's Calvin & Hobbes! It's about the inner world, imaginary friends and so on (apart from the bits about the aliens). IT'S TWEE, ALLRIGHT?
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 14 April 2003 13:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 14 April 2003 13:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
Hadn't seen that in years. So good.
― JRN, Sunday, 17 November 2019 03:17 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Gf79M3v.png
― pplains, Sunday, 17 November 2019 03:21 (four years ago) link
damn
― đź’ (crĂĽt), Sunday, 17 November 2019 03:59 (four years ago) link
hot gen x take tbh.
― and i approve this message (Hunt3r), Sunday, 17 November 2019 04:05 (four years ago) link
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!
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Sunday, 17 November 2019 04:40 (four years ago) link
it struck me the other day that i might be older than them now!
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Sunday, 17 November 2019 13:01 (four years ago) link
Uncle Max breaks my heart
https://i.redd.it/evlad03a9hw21.jpg
― jmm, Sunday, 17 November 2019 14:25 (four years ago) link
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
― đź’ (crĂĽt), Sunday, 17 November 2019 14:33 (four years ago) link
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.
― jmm, Sunday, 17 November 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link
Moe is irredeemable.
― jmm, Sunday, 17 November 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
"Sometimes I think ALL my friends have been imaginary."
"Like, you know, the guy with the orange cat who eats lasagna..."
― pplains, Sunday, 17 November 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
^ https://www.reddit.com/r/calvinandhobbes/comments/749bfi/uncle_max_lyman_theory/
― đź’ (crĂĽt), Sunday, 17 November 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link
surly morning calvin looks like john terry
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 November 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
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
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Sunday, 17 November 2019 18:45 (four years ago) link
Xxp Lol. I love obscure knowledge/insight about funnies. I think Lyman got dropped because people were asking if Jon and Lyman were lovers
― brain dead operatus (FlopsyDuck), Sunday, 17 November 2019 19:16 (four years ago) link
did u know about this year's big garfield revelation?https://youtu.be/ZSPidZP_3X8?t=534
― wasdnuos (abanana), Thursday, 28 November 2019 20:50 (four years ago) link
i remember seeing that older drawing of Garfield in a Garfield book once, i don't think this is that big a revelation
― đź’ (crĂĽt), Thursday, 28 November 2019 23:08 (four years ago) link
!!!!
Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson has a book coming out in the fall. https://t.co/JytiWwnV8B— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) February 14, 2023
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 23:54 (one year ago) link
holy shit
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 23:57 (one year ago) link
O_O
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 23:58 (one year ago) link
OH DARN
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 00:10 (one year ago) link
Ok!
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 00:18 (one year ago) link
this was not the reason I feared the thread got bumped, thank God.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 00:50 (one year ago) link
This is great. What a legend
― hrep (H.P), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 00:51 (one year ago) link
lol yeah him dying seemed way more likely than him releasing something
― frogbs, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 00:51 (one year ago) link
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.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 00:52 (one year ago) link
Wow, this is cool!I finally got the collected C+H for xmas after hinting about it for like a decade. I kinda wanted the hardcovers buuuut the softcover box set somehow weighs like 413 lbs so I'm ultimately glad that I received a version I will hopefully be able to physically wield in my dotage
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 01:57 (one year ago) link
man, this looks and sounds very odd!
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 05:14 (one year ago) link
TBH the cover image looks a lot like an AI with a medieval prompt, just saying, but I am super intrigued by the concept.
― Evan, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 16:05 (one year ago) link
We need more oddness out there, and sort of a bummer that the first thing that might come to mind is “AI prompt” when talking about that art but I understand that this is where we’re at these days.
― omar little, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 16:16 (one year ago) link
I acknowledge the bombardment of AI lately influences me, but that image in particular really brought me there immediately (not just due to "weirdness" factor, either, I consume plenty of objectively weird current outsider comics).
― Evan, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 19:16 (one year ago) link
Can someone make for me a picture of that scared dude pissing on a Tesla logo, thnx.
― pplains, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 19:38 (one year ago) link
this book sounds p bad
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 11:22 (one year ago) link
Oh so you're the guy
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 17:00 (one year ago) link
literally nothing about it sounds good and the cover is not helping!
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 17:03 (one year ago) link
I'm definitely curious about the book, but I'm also reminded of what he said in The Calvin & Hobbes 10th Anniversary Book: "Graphic novels are incredibly stupid."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 17:07 (one year ago) link
What about it sounds bad? I mean from the description it could also be good.
― omar little, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 17:08 (one year ago) link
Separately I have a really really distinct memory as a kid of the very first Calvin and Hobbes strip in the newspaper. I would read the comic section every morning religiously, and even as a 10-year-old or maybe even especially as a 10-year-old I recognized immediately that this was a cut above everything else. That and peanuts were my top two for life from then on.
― omar little, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 17:10 (one year ago) link
bloom county and far side to complete the late 80s set imo
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 17:42 (one year ago) link
I’ve got the same collection of C&H books I started acquiring with babysitting money as a child and BW is one of those guys where despite my love for C&H I’m just not interested in the new material. I thought about why and I think it’s partly the fear that he turns out to be personally dodgy in a way that ruins his work for me (cf Morrissey) and also, it just doesn’t seem intrinsically that interesting compared to the stuff I know him for.
― better than whoever you are (gyac), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 17:47 (one year ago) link
Pulled a few boxes of books out of the basement last week and realized I had the first 3 big C&H anthologies down there. When I unpack the boxes again I'm gonna dive into those for sure.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 17:51 (one year ago) link
loved those treasuries back in the day, even though i also had most of the 'regular' books.... having the color Sundays and the bonus stories was great. iirc, Watterson sort of rolls his eyes at those publications in the must-own Tenth Anniversary book, pointing out that he named them The Essential, The Indispensable, and The Authoritative "since the books were obviously none of these things."
i'm periodically tempted by the idea of owning The Complete paperback set. somehow though it feels like something would be lost not having things grouped under "Yukon Ho!" and "Scientific Progress Goes Boink."
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 18:06 (one year ago) link
― omar little, Wednesday, February 22, 2023 12:10 PM (fifty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I remember that, too! I was immediately struck by the design of the characters -- Calvin's Pac-Man mouth, mainly -- and how clever it was right out of the gate. I mean, the first week or so of C&H was exponentially more funny and creative than the previous 10-15 years of Beetle Bailey or Garfield or whatever combined. It felt like risks were being taken, and apart from Bloom County and The Far Side (as Tracer Hand pointed out), few other (if any) late '80s strips had that spirit.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 18:14 (one year ago) link
The only strips that come even close to C&H are Peanuts and Pogo.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 18:28 (one year ago) link
the artwork and lettering on pogo probably better than those two; C&H owes a big debt to walt kelly for those heavily inked stumps and trees and crags he was so fond ofpogo really so amazing. not sure any other comic has a book of sheet music?
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 19:15 (one year ago) link
There are few things in this world I enjoy as much as the small moments in Calvin and Hobbes when Calvin’s parents do something that make it clear that Calvin got his entire personality from them (even the parts that drive them crazy) https://t.co/CPzcXPN69T pic.twitter.com/GBEACE1eOO— Billie Takespeare (@maynardgang) December 16, 2023
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 23:16 (four months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GBeIDqtXwAAf_3u?format=jpg&name=mediumIn case strip doesn’t show in preview
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 23:17 (four months ago) link
Calvin’s parents the undeniable heroes of C&H. The strips with Calvin’s dad having a nightmare of a family holiday just ruin me
https://i.postimg.cc/X7GbyvQb/IMG-4358.jpg
― H.P, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 00:39 (four months ago) link
Same
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 20 December 2023 00:40 (four months ago) link
It’s amazing how invested the strip gets you