Calvin giggles

LOVE CALVIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TOO FUNNY!! I am tempted to buy the C&H collection that came out recently. Oh.. the far side collection is also on my wish list.

I miss the little guy. Was at the book store yesterday and they have this complete C&H hardbound collection...very sweet.

Another winter favorite...





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Renee ... I (obviously) absolutely love Calvin and Hobbes. While I wish I knew how to paste a comic strip into a message, thought a good second choice would be the following story that ran on NPR re: the COMPLETE collection of Calvin and Hobbes in one book.

I have a 7 year old boy who embodies the finer qualities of Calvin. I cannot wait to get a copy of the comics so that he can read through it!

'The Complete Calvin and Hobbes'
by Charles Solomon

Day to Day, October 21, 2005 · Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes was one of the most popular comic strips of modern times. It ran in more than 2,400 newspapers, and fans of the scrappy boy and his stuffed tiger companion have bought more than 30 million copies of the strip's collected works.

This month, all 3,160 published strips have been brought together, from beginning to end, in The Complete Calvin and Hobbes -- a massive, 28-pound, three-volume collection that should prove irresistible to fans.

"Re-reading the adventures of Calvin and Hobbes is like visiting a childhood friend who moved away and took the fun with him," says Day To Day animation critic Charles Solomon. "During the 10 years it ran -- from November 1985 to December 1995 -- Calvin and Hobbes was simply the best comic strip in the newspapers."

Watterson is credited with reviving the fine drawing, visual imagination and character-driven humor that made comics popular since they first began appearing in newspapers more than a century ago.

Berkley Breathed, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his own Bloom County strip, admired Watterson's work so much he once drew one of his characters wearing a shirt that read "Calvin & Hobbes rule."

"His readers spanned every age," Breathed says. "I would love to do a strip as innocent as Peanuts... or Calvin and Hobbes, and hope to find that breadth of readership."

Few fans or fellow comic strip artists have ever met the reclusive Watterson. Even when the strip was at the height of its popularity, Watterson generally declined to make public appearances, preferring to have his characters speak for themselves.

He gave a rather famous address at Ohio State University in which he explained his philosophy and some of his quirks. Editor and Publisher magazine ran a story on his rare public address, but hardly any other news group covered it -- because few people knew Watterson was willing to walk away from the fame, forever.


http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4968065&source...

Not Calvin and Hobbes, but along the comic theme. My favorite Dilbert. I'll have to dig out my favorite Calvin, but I don't think it's digitized.

bts





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copyright Bill Watterson (does that count?)

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I love the Far Side and C&H. I have the Far Side collection, love it!

A Buddhist moment...

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A funny one I got just yesterday. Note that its probably a fake. I don't think Bill Watterson ever had Calvin saying sh*t. Funny nonetheless...

Edited by Matchman 2005-11-01 1:13 PM






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A bike related one...





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Matchman,

Off the top of my head, I remember it being "Dog doo". I claim top spot among Calvin and Hobbes fan. I am finding it hard to convince myself not to spend $150 on the collection. Very, very hard.

Daily Calvin dose...

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