Calvin and Hobbes
Calvin and Hobbes
#0Calvin and Hobbes
Posted: 2/8/05 at 4:22pmIs anyone else in love with this comic strip? I'm sad its over (been a while since it was) but I grew up reading it, though I didn't get half the jokes until I was older. I'd loved Hobbes so much and really wanted an imaginary tigar friend like Hobbes when I was little. Whenever I feeling crappy I curl up with C&H and it almost always makes me feel much better about life. Who's with me?
#1re: Calvin and Hobbes
Posted: 2/8/05 at 4:24pmSo there with you. For the longest time it was my favorite comic. I miss them...
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#3re: Calvin and Hobbes
Posted: 2/8/05 at 4:58pm
Ah! Love it! I have one of the collections...it's called "The Lazy Sunday Book"...I actually just took it out this past Sunday. Funny you should mention it...
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#5re: Calvin and Hobbes
Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:32pmThe cartoonist Bill Watterson no longer enjoyed the daily grind of doing the strip, and wanted to end it before he felt it dried up creatively. He also resisted all urges to mass market the strip, so the strip's distributor never was able to make all of the big bucks on animated specials or plush toys that Watterson felt would compromise the strip's integrity.
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#6re: calvin and hobbes
Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:35pmyeah, but at most t-shirt places in nyc you can still get those t-shirts of calvin grimacing with the caption, "every day i add another name to the list of people that p*ss me off!"
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...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
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#7re: calvin and hobbes
Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:48pmI think they wanted to make a TV show out of it. And Watterson wouldn't let them, I so glad they didin't it would have taken away everything thats special about the comic strip.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#8re: calvin and hobbes
Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:49pm
I adore that strip. I challenge any of you to a C&H trivia contest 
#9re: calvin and hobbes
Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:55pm
I love Calvin and Hobbes. And although it would have been nice to see some C&H calendars, I totally respect Bill Watterson for not agreeing to license his characters and ruining his strip. Not that it did a lot of good, did it? I mean, you can't turn around now without seeing a Calvin effigy pissing on the emblem of your choice. Classy, people...
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#11re: calvin and hobbes
Posted: 2/8/05 at 7:00pm
I. LOVE. CALVIN and HOBBES
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Therese
Broadway Star Joined: 1/2/05
#12re: calvin and hobbes
Posted: 2/8/05 at 7:21pmCalvin & Hobbes = Brilliant. I still miss it (that and the Far Side). Favorite C&H Ever: a long story arc of Calvin & Hobbes trying to lure Susie Derkins into a water balloon ambush behind Calvin's house, involving notes written in "secret" code left where Susie can find them. Watterson built this thing up over so many days, I thought, "There'd better be a good payoff to this" - and is there ever, involving Calvin, Susie, and a garden hose...
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Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/04
#13re: calvin and hobbes
Posted: 2/8/05 at 7:26pmI love Calvin and Hobbes. Was one of the best things that I read as a kid. Actually reading this reminded me that yesterday I jacked my boyfriend's Calvin and Hobbes book. Hehehe. Never going to return it. Well actually I will. Eventually.
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#14re: calvin and hobbes
Posted: 2/8/05 at 7:34pmI love Calvin and Hobbes!!!! I am so glad there are so many books of the strip. And i also miss the far side.
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#15re: calvin and hobbes
Posted: 2/9/05 at 1:13am
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0740748475/ref=ase_calvinandhobbesm/102-0023548-3507371?v=glance&s=books
Oh baby! Yeessss!
#16re: calvin and hobbes
Posted: 2/9/05 at 1:54amI adore C& H. I had the final strip laminated and posted in my computer room before I moved. It was a beautiful way to leave.
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Still a little bit of you laced with my doubt. Still a little hard to say what's going on..." Damien Rice
#17re: calvin and hobbes
Posted: 2/9/05 at 2:41amMy brother managed to claim the last strip before I did. I was little at the time, and didn't think to go out and get another copy. I'm kicking myself for not doing that.
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#18re: calvin and hobbes
Posted: 2/9/05 at 8:44amYay! I heart Calvin and Hobbes... my blog is dedicated to them at the moment. Huzzah!
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