It's amazing that Calvin and Hobbes can still make me laugh as heartily as it did when I first read it as a child. I'm going to enjoy re-reading the whole lot.

fusillade762: Rufus Lee King: cuzsis: C&H was okay. I liked Hobbes, but I always thought Calvin was a dick most of the time.

Well, the way I understood it, Calvin was Hobbes. Hobbes was his alter-ego, or whatever it's called. Could be wrong.

Operation Chaos is a go.

http://ignatz.brinkster.net/cfightclub.html explains this theory in pretty good detail.

I never looked at Fight Club the same way again.

fragMasterFlash: So he is off his meds? HURRAY!

Even knowing that's a parody, that strip still makes me want to just bawl. I am so glad C&H didn't end with Calvin growing up or any such nonsense. The idea of Calvin "successfully" medicated and Hobbes condemned to mute toyhood... oh fark, that's BAD.

On a brighter note, when he retired and took up painting, he is supposed to have said that the first 500 paintings any artist does are just practice. Maybe he's decided he's had enough practice... Imagine Bill Watterson hailed as a brilliant painter. How cool would that be?!?

cuzsis: Yeah, his imagination was pretty cool. The snowmen were awesome. But when it came to interacting with people....yeah no. (And before you ask, I work with kids a lot and have seen plenty of kids, even little kids, who can grasp the concept of "empathy" better than Calvin.)

Um, Calvin is pretty spot-on for a typical kid at the far end of the "extroverted" and "imaginative" ends of the spectrum, which puts him in the "yeah, been there" range for the majority of people. Sure, he doesn't 100% describe every child you'll ever meet, but he's definitely a recognizable real-life personality archetype. Plus, the impulsive Calvin plus rational Hobbes is a pretty good illustration of the average adult's inner dialogue.

Complaining that a character defined around his preference for an imaginary friend over peers in his age group has issues relating fully to other children seems like missing the point in several major ways, is what I'm saying here. There's more to reading comprehension than taking the meanings of the individual words and adding them together tweedle-dum style.

//And that's the second Lewis Carol vs. reductionism reference I've made in three weeks, I may need a break from the internet.

Meh. I grew up on The Far Side.

Here's my problem with what Watterson did.

He was at the top of his game with C&H, yeah. That is the best, the epic time to leave it behind, yeah. "Always leave them wanting more," yeah, I get it. If you want an argument in support of that idea, just look at farking Garfield, right?

But just because he was done with C&H, he didn't need to be done with creative work of all kinds. Why not start something new? He doesn't want the well to run dry on Calvin, and eventually it would have. That's why you try something new. With the writing and artistic ability he has, I seriously doubt C&H was the only project he had in him.

Do another strip. Do a graphic novel. Contribute concept art to an animated series. Something. Shiat.

/sad

Fano: Summer Glau's Love Slave: [3.bp.blogspot.com image 372x400]
Looks like Calvin is planning on getting his groove on.

/They grow up so fast.

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No question.


This thread is like the Stations of the Cross

That always bugged me. Hobbes should be giving Calvin a wink and thumbs-up, not snarling at him.

Nostalgia is a futile emotion - what it desires isn't attainable.

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Lol nice :)

When a cartoonist closes down a mega-hit of a comic strip, they must know deep down, it's rare to ever come back. It's basically walking away from a six figure income.

velvet_fog: rocinante721: rocinante721: So what are the odds of him getting raped & shivved?

Oops, this isnt the Sandusky thread.

Still oddly appropriate, though

The new artwork does look like a young Jerry Sandusky...

Admit it, you're just excited by a 6" by 8.

Unashamed re-posting to spread the art of Lio

Summer Glau's Love Slave:
Looks like Calvin is planning on getting his groove on.

Fano:
Summer Glau's Love Slave: [3.bp.blogspot.com image 372x400]
/They grow up so fast.
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No question.

Just for you guys...

THe only Post-Watterson Calvin that matters. NSFWWeapon Brown vs Cal.1

rocinante721: rocinante721: So what are the odds of him getting raped & shivved?

Oops, this isnt the Sandusky thread.

Still oddly appropriate, though

What do you mean THE Sandusky thread. I think there are 12 or more...

Jim_Callahan: Actually, one of the main reasons that Watterson is so respected is that he saw that he'd said all he meant to say with the property, realized he was starting to repeat himself, decided to retire, and farking well stayed retired.

The problem is, if you're not actually DRAWING CARTOONS, how can you call yourself a cartoonist?

I admire Watterson's work as much as anyone here, but Calvin & Hobbes is history now. A wonderful piece of work, but a finished one. Watterson needs to get back in the game--maybe create a new strip, who knows? I cannot believe the man is out of ideas for one.

Bucky Katt: Gunny Highway: This unsold news.

I love comic strips more than anyone. Cul de Sac is onE one the best current strips.

Everyone thinks comic strips are dead and the newspaper strip doesn't mean anythings these days. They are wrong. There are a lot of amazing comic strips these days. I am currently working on a comic strip and hope that my character will
One day share the page with Pearls Before Swine, Get Fuzzy, and Cul De Sac.

Rock and roll, Bill!

Don't promise anything you can't deliver.

Working hard with a limited skill set.

where was this news when it was new?

Nice to see he's not completely given up making things

Maybe there's a collection of oil paintings stashed in his attic

LadyHawke: There's a new strip called Heavenly Nostrils, about a girl and a unicorn, and it sometimes has a bit of a C&H feel to it.

LGT first strip, which is from April:

Link

April 29

... OK, I'm hooked.

cuzsis: C&H was okay. I liked Hobbes, but I always thought Calvin was a dick most of the time.

Yeah, his imagination was pretty cool. The snowmen were awesome. But when it came to interacting with people....yeah no. (And before you ask, I work with kids a lot and have seen plenty of kids, even little kids, who can grasp the concept of "empathy" better than Calvin.)

Just never could get into a strip where the main character was a jerk most of the time with almost zero personal growth.

/but apparently I'm the minority.
//which makes me wonder sometimes if that's why the world seems so messed up.

He's a child. He's not mature or empathetic and stuff. He's not a jerk so much as self-absorbed and sometimes frustrated with the rules, like all kids. IMHO anyways.

OTOH maybe he is a jerk and I'm a jerk too. That's a possibility.

Coriantumr: croesius: I recall a cartoon or something to the effect of "Bill Watterson has been drawing a Calvin & Hobbes cartoon daily ever since he quit the strip, and throwing them away".

Any ideas?

Here: Bill Watterson Writes, Illustrates, Shreds New 'Calvin And Hobbes' Strip Each Morning Out Of Spite.

Does Bill Watterson live in Cleveland Heights, OH? If so...

foxyshadis: John Stamos: Hobbes and Bacon...?!

What the **** is this ****?!

Who in the FARK thought they had the right do create that?!

Angry!

Fark that, I wanna know how you play Baconball.

The great thing about Baconball is you can eat the ball afterwards.

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Unashamed re-posting to spread the art of Lio

Came to make sure somebody posted that. You da man!

Why do I have to do this?

Mikeyworld: It just satisfying to know that he's still got the artist in him. Whether I ever see an illustration from him again or not.

Painting is all he really has been doing the last decade. Most likely there is a warehouse of paintings sitting around somewhere that will be discovered long after he is dead.

the_chief: I am The Devil.


Wrong thread bro. Go take your meds.

Captain Steroid: In the world of Calvin and Hobbes, my life is a comic book.

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How awesome is that?! :P


Pretty awful actually. Sounds like a great comic for kids with no real imagination. Go read The Far Side.

Fano: Somehow I think they will all be copies of the picture Jackie Treehorn drew to really mess with everyone

The weird thing is that when I imagine that being true, I have to wonder how hundreds of paintings of that picture would change me. Because he would never troll without a point.

And looking at hundreds of dicks hasn't changed me so far... has it?

I feel like Bill Watterson will turn into JD Salinger if his wife dies first. We'll discover he hoards jars of pee and hundreds of mutilated panels of Calvin and Hobbes that were never published.

Gunny Highway:

Everyone thinks comic strips are dead and the newspaper strip doesn't mean anythings these days. They are wrong. There are a lot of amazing comic strips these days. I am currently working on a comic strip and hope that my character will
One day share the page with Pearls Before Swine, Get Fuzzy, and Cul De Sac.


It's not so much that the comics page is dead so much that the newspapers themselves are dying. It's a long, slow decline, but they're not transitioning well into the digital age, and they're taking comic strips down with them.

Plus, the syndicate is, from what I understand, pretty exclusive and difficult to break into. Scott Kurtz of PvP has a lot of longstanding gripes with them, partly out of how difficult they make it to break into "their club," and partly out of how little consideration they give towards anyone who isn't published in a newspaper.

Good luck with your own efforts; hopefully you can find success even in the current decline.

/Never heard of Cul de Sac

ladyfortuna: Satanic_Hamster: Fano: Well, he ended everything and put all the nails in the coffin, and then this image pours ten tons of cement on that. No need for any more Calvin adventures that don't take place in your head
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Hmmm. There was another posted recent, showing a teenager/young adult Calvin w/ the girl on his back.

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It's on DeviantArt but I rehosted it just in case, hopefully the artist won't mind.

Fanboy/fangirl art is the worst shiat humanity has created. If you're a fan of Calvin and Hobbes, or anything else, don't shiat it on it with your mawkwish, shiatty "tributes".

Hand Banana:
We can still dream damnit!

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seriously, people who make this stuff need to loose their oxygen supply.

xant: But just because he was done with C&H, he didn't need to be done with creative work of all kinds. Why not start something new? He doesn't want the well to run dry on Calvin, and eventually it would have. That's why you try something new. With the writing and artistic ability he has, I seriously doubt C&H was the only project he had in him.

Do another strip. Do a graphic novel. Contribute concept art to an animated series. Something. Shiat.

Many people have the same problem with him. And they don't realize WHY he's not doing publicly viewed art anymore - he hated dealing with newspapers, syndicates, media moguls, merchandising, and everything that went along with it. He'll never have anything to do with those money-grubbing amoral asshats again. They cared nothing for his artistic integrity, and he didn't care how much money they made. It's as simple as that. He said when ended Calvin and Hobbes that he would continue to create, and I imagine he has. He's just not doing anything in open media anymore. You're likely to never see any of it (before he passes), because he's never going to make a deal with those devils again.

He's not doing it for a paycheck or for recognition. He doesn't need or want public acceptance. He said what he wanted to say in C&H, and now he's off doing other things.

My favorite, and I still have a very yellowed copy on my bulliten board. It's the one where Calvin is in the toilet, flushes it, whirls around, then walks by his mother telling her he is done with his bath. Still makes me laugh

Bill Frist: seriously, people who make this stuff need to loose their oxygen supply.

ITGs who spell "lose" wrong need to go back to elementary school.

Bill Frist: ladyfortuna: Satanic_Hamster: Fano: Well, he ended everything and put all the nails in the coffin, and then this image pours ten tons of cement on that. No need for any more Calvin adventures that don't take place in your head
[fc02.deviantart.net image 400x320]

Hmmm. There was another posted recent, showing a teenager/young adult Calvin w/ the girl on his back.

[i391.photobucket.com image 640x688]

It's on DeviantArt but I rehosted it just in case, hopefully the artist won't mind.

Fanboy/fangirl art is the worst shiat humanity has created. If you're a fan of Calvin and Hobbes, or anything else, don't shiat it on it with your mawkwish, shiatty "tributes".

Bill Frist: Hand Banana:
We can still dream damnit!

[img.auctiva.com image 640x527]

[www.forevergeek.com image 550x550]

seriously, people who make this stuff need to loose their oxygen supply.

Speaking of fanboys...

/show me on the doll where the fanboys touched you, Bill Frist

People who try to get snobby about typos on the internet...

(p.s. the words "of" and "the" should not be capitalized in your username.)