SCI-FI sends in a link to a serious time-waster:
The Calvin and Hobbes Wiki has a number of resources available to the serious Calvin & Hobbes fan. There's a run-down of all the characters, running gags, merchandise (books!), etc. It also links here: Calvin & Hobbes on GoComics. If you're a fan of C&H, you should check both sites out.
Calvin & Hobbes was - is - perhaps my favorite comic strip ever. It spanned ten years, from 1985 to 1995, seeing me from my early teens into young adulthood. Watterson managed to avoid the overt politicism that (IMHO) killed Bloom County and used the crucible of the young Calvin to make the points he wanted made. I still miss reading the strip, and while I understand why Watterson ceased the comic so abruptly, I still hold out hope he'll be struck again by the muse.
All I know is that I really want a transmogrifier...
That is all.
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I love Calvin & Hobbes. I really got into them in my early teen years (not quite old enough to "get" everything). Then I really started to appreciate the deeper meanings as I got older/wiser. I was really bummed when Watterson called it quits.
Bloom County saw me through the years of my marriage. While it was political, it wasn't as blatantly liberal as Doonesbury was (remember Milo going on "Liberal Hunts" with his grandpa?) Bloom County was more about skewering pop culture than it was about politics.
Calvin & Hobbes... what a great strip, and Watterson made a real effort to advance the comic strip concept, especially with his Sunday panels. It and The Far Side by Gary Larsen were the best comic strips of the 1980's.
heh, a few years back I ran accross a complete set of Calvin & Hobbes books (reprints, but thats fine), picked them up and sent them off to my brother for Christmas. My mother informed me that my brother REFUSED to put them down till he'd finished them all. He told me later he hadn't realized how much he'd missed reading them.
Calvin and Hobbs appeared fairly often on the cork boards in my (former) department. However, the department chair asked that we stop posting the snowmen (you know exactly which ones) because it might upset some students and a number of administrators. She did ignore our miniature Demotivators (C) posters, so it was a happy compromise.
"Calvin! What state are you in?" "Denial."
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It wasn't as if I was going to have a productive weekend anyway...then you had to go and do that. The only thing that would have distracted me more would be a Farside Wiki...oh my gosh, do you think on of those exist?
I've always said if I'd had children, the boy would have been a combination of Bart Simpson and Calvin. It's good I'm childless. Eh?
I loved Calvin & Hobbes and hated to see it go. I bought a complete set at Border's last week and introduced my 9-year-old daughter to them. They are still every bit as hilarious now as they were when they were written. My little girl, however, is smartly mischievous, so I hope Calvin doesn't put any ideas into her little princess noggin.
I adore Calvin & Hobbes, and I own the complete boxed set. So good! Calvin reminds me of myself at that age, and something you don't see near enough of anymore... a kid with an imagination. Only rarely does one find Calvin in front of a TV set.
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