The great Calvin & Hobbes.

[Scott Dolan]

http://www.angelfire.com/wa/zzaran/calvin.html

[clinthopson]

Scotty, for once, you got it right.

Waterston is a friggin' genius. ROFLMFAO

The LA Times has been reprinting old Calvin strips. AT least they are doing something to offset the deterioration of a great newspaper.

[Scott Dolan]

Hmmmm..........


Our local paper has been running old C&H strips for the last month or so as well. Must be some kind of anniversary or something?

[Chris D]

There's a new collection out. The syndicated re-runs will last through December only. Enjoy them while they last.

[Tom Storer]

The International Herald Tribune stopped running C&H when Waterston retired, but a month or two later put it back in due to overwhelming demand. Daily reruns ever since.

[sonic1]

Those are some funny strips.

But I gotta say: Nothing says redneck like having a calvin pissing bumpersticker on your car.

[Chris D]

But I gotta say: Nothing says redneck like having a calvin pissing bumpersticker on your car.

You think Bill Waterston had anything to do with those? Or that he receives a royalty from that twisted theft of his intellectual property?

[Tanager]

Don't think I haven't eyed that three volume C&H set more than once...I am gonna buy it soon, gotta have it.

[moneyp]

The three or four-paneled comic strip isn't my favorite medium. It doesn't allow much room for a good joke or a funny line to work. I like Doonesbury because Trudeau can draw out several good laughs over a given scene (which may last a couple of weeks) but doesn't feel the need to set up the punchline in every strip.

Berkeley Breathed has more or less said the same thing and restricted himself to Sunday strips for OPUS, his most recent strip (which I'm not sure is still going) and demanded half a page to spread it out (Waterson does the same for Calvin and Hobbes strips).

Having said all that, Waterson has to be one of the greatest comic minds of our times. Hilarious stuff.

[Scott Dolan]

Those are some funny strips.

But I gotta say: Nothing says redneck like having a calvin pissing bumpersticker on your car.

I'm not sure which is worse, that, the ubiquitous NASCAR stcker(i.e. 3), or the most popular OCC/West Coast Choppers stickers.

[Tanager]

I'm not sure which is worse, that, the ubiquitous NASCAR stcker(i.e. 3), or the most popular OCC/West Coast Choppers stickers.

I think you are issued your Earnhardt sticker with your driver's license in some parts of NC.

[Rob C]

You think Bill Waterston had anything to do with those? Or that he receives a royalty from that twisted theft of his intellectual property?

Watterson never even licensed HOBBES DOLLS--which probably could have made him a millions. I seriously doubt he would have changed his stance on the commercialization of his characters because he liked the idea of Calvin pissing on a Chevy logo.

Unless he just really hates Chevy....

[Dan G]

I read an article about Waterston recently, where they actually managed to get him to talk a bit. It was kind of cryptic about the Chev thing, but he sort of implied that yes, he did give persmission and was very much regretting it. he didn't think it would be very popular, and wishes it hadn't caught on and become so big. And that has made him shy away from ever licensing anything again.

It also talked about how he used to sell copies of his books to a local bookstore, run by a friend of his mother, in the small town where he lives. He'd sell them signed copies - sometimes to raise money for charity, once he gave them a batch because they were in financial trouble and needed to raise some capital. He quit when he found out that, even though the store was limiting them to one per customer, one ended up on ebay.

That new box set is nice, but at that price I don't thnk I would want to crack the spines. My dentist has the full set of softcovers in her waiting room, so I read them when I'm there. I put him on par with any of the great authors.

[Slurpy]

That new box set is nice, but at that price I don't thnk I would want to crack the spines. My dentist has the full set of softcovers in her waiting room, so I read them when I'm there. I put him on par with any of the great authors.

After Watterson's retirement, a local Borders had all the compilation books packaged together and on sale dirt cheap. I bought 2 of them. Personally, C & H is my 2nd all time favorite comic strip behind Berkeley Breathed's brilliant "Bloom County".

[Tanager]

After Watterson's retirement, a local Borders had all the compilation books packaged together and on sale dirt cheap. I bought 2 of them. Personally, C & H is my 2nd all time favorite comic strip behind Berkeley Breathed's brilliant "Bloom County".

I loved and grew up with Bloom County. Fantastic, brilliant stuff.

[jesus marion joseph]

"Snowman House of Horrors" has been a favorite of mine for a long time.

[Scott Dolan]

Bizarre.


I'd also rank C&H and Bloom County as my two favorite comic strips ever.

[clinthopson]

Pogo is my personal favorite, then Calvin & Hobbes

[Rob C]

Bizarre.


I'd also rank C&H and Bloom County as my two favorite comic strips ever.

Why so bizarre? Those are probably the two favorites of just about everybody I know (everybody who cares about such things)!

[Richard Pinnell]

A real gem for C&H officianados is the Ten Year anniversary book, in which Watterson reprints some classic strips and adds commentary to them about his reasons for drawing them, and also a few essays on his work, including a lengthy one on his non-licensing stance.

He stops just short however, of breaking his silence on the Noodle Incident.....

[clinthopson]

I have a complete collection of Pogo books. Walt Kelly was the inspiration of a generation of cartoonists.

"Deck us all with Boston Charlie. Walla Wash and Kalamazoo. . ."

[moneyp]

I have a complete collection of Pogo books.

Me too. Pogo, the Peanuts strips of the '60s and George Herriman's Krazy Kat are the rosetta stones of the genre as far as I'm concerned.

[Rob C]

Me too. Pogo, the Peanuts strips of the '60s and George Herriman's Krazy Kat are the rosetta stones of the genre as far as I'm concerned.

"We have met the Rosetta Stone, and he is us."

[sonic1]

I read an article about Waterston recently, where they actually managed to get him to talk a bit. It was kind of cryptic about the Chev thing, but he sort of implied that yes, he did give persmission and was very much regretting it. he didn't think it would be very popular, and wishes it hadn't caught on and become so big. And that has made him shy away from ever licensing anything again.

It also talked about how he used to sell copies of his books to a local bookstore, run by a friend of his mother, in the small town where he lives. He'd sell them signed copies - sometimes to raise money for charity, once he gave them a batch because they were in financial trouble and needed to raise some capital. He quit when he found out that, even though the store was limiting them to one per customer, one ended up on ebay.

That new box set is nice, but at that price I don't thnk I would want to crack the spines. My dentist has the full set of softcovers in her waiting room, so I read them when I'm there. I put him on par with any of the great authors.

There are much worse ones than the chevy stickers. There is one that circulates around Tucson that has a muslim being pissed on; I assume it is supposed to be Osama. I also saw one that had France being pissed on.

It would be cool to make one of a Calvin pissing in a fan; that would represent how I feel about america.

[Rob C]

There are much worse ones than the chevy stickers. There is one that circulates around Tucson that has a muslim being pissed on; I assume it is supposed to be Osama. I also saw one that had France being pissed on.

It would be cool to make one of a Calvin pissing in a fan; that would represent how I feel about america.

Calvin always was a jingoistic little bastard.