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Calvin and Hobbes

Cassie said:
How come Garfield has been going on for some 25 odd years, and Bill put's down the pen after 10?
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It's called artistic integrity. Watterson (especially) and Larson had it; Jim Davis does not. (Sorry, Jim, but it's true; Garfield shut have been put down a LONG time ago.)

I was always a bit sad that Watterson was SO strict about his art that it stopped me from buying a stuffed Hobbes... but you gotta respect him for turning his back on the big money in favor of doing what he wanted to do.
 
jsw said:
As I missed the final strip, would anyone care to enlighten me as to how it actually ended?
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In case you can't see the image, click here: http://radio.weblogs.com/0109790/stories/2002/06/29/calvinAndHobbes.html
 
clayj said:
This is the sad ending I thought up before actually seeing Watterson's ending... remember, it was a Sunday strip, so it had more than the usual three panels:

Calvin and Hobbes would be walking along in the forest, maybe throwing rocks or something... and they'd be having a deep discussion about how when people grow up, their capacity for imagination diminishes, to their detriment. Hobbes would say something witty about that, and Calvin would retort...

... and Hobbes would not respond. Calvin would look back and see, instead of the usual Hobbes, the stuffed Hobbes that his parents and everyone else saw.

And Calvin would walk home, leaving Hobbes in the forest; he'd become too old for imaginary friends.

Like I said, my ending is kind of sad.
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Bad ClayJ, Bad!

You almost made me cry....
 
clayj said:
I was always a bit sad that Watterson was SO strict about his art that it stopped me from buying a stuffed Hobbes... but you gotta respect him for turning his back on the big money in favor of doing what he wanted to do.
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I thought Watterson refused to license out Hobbes, since he didn't want the interpretation of Hobbes (is he just the stuffed animal or is he real) to be determined by a toy, but by our imaginations. If I remember right, he blasted Schultz for turning Snoopy and the Peanuts gang into corporate shills.

But, I could be totally wrong - in which case, where/when did you see the Hobbes on sale? As a soon to be father, I have a dream of raising my kids on nostalgia - Ducktales and C&H for everybody...:D

EDIT: or did I misunderstand you - did you mean that because of his refusal you couldn't get oe even though you wanted it? I'm a bit slow today...
 
I love Calvin and Hobbes. I have all the books - reading it in the newspaper was never enough for my brother and me.

I have them in the bookshelf in my guest bedroom. People who stay with me always comment on how they started reading one, and couldn't stop until they finished the book.
 
nbs2 said:
But, I could be totally wrong - in which case, where/when did you see the Hobbes on sale? As a soon to be father, I have a dream of raising my kids on nostalgia - Ducktales and C&H for everybody...:D
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He was saying the same thing you are saying. clayj was disappointed that he couldn't buy a Hobbes because Watterson didn't license it.
 
beatsme said:
Calvin & Hobbes, Bloom County, The Far Side

the holy trinity of comics
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I agree, and it's kinda interesting that those three classics were contemporaries of each other. I do like some more recent strips (such as "Dilbert"), but those three will always be up there at the top of my list -- right behind "Peanuts", of course. :D
 
Now I am sorely tempted to read one of my Calvin and Hobbes books now. ClayJ your ending is heart wrenching. I almost cried.
 
velocityg4 said:
Now I am sorely tempted to read one of my Calvin and Hobbes books now. ClayJ your ending is heart wrenching. I almost cried.
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Wow, I had no idea so many people would "hate" the ending I thought up... of course, mine is really more of an ending than Watterson's actual last strip, since he obviously left the door open to come back if he wanted to.

But now you have a bit of insight into my psyche.
 
You true C&H fans are going to hate me for this one.

Presenting the most depressing thing you'll see today.
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Note - it's a fake. Still the saddest thing though. :( Whoever did that knew exactly what buttons C&H pushes with its fans.

I'm a huge C&H fan, even own the 3 volume box set. Highest recommendation on that!
 
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To whom said earlier "Calvin & Hobbes, Bloom County, The Far Side" are the holy trinity... :up: For various reasons, one of my nicknames is Hobbes [as this is PG13 site, won't disclose any others, or all the why's as to Hobbes is one of them... :eek: :eek: ;)]. I have most of the books, and have converted many others into reading and laughing and pondering the wit and wisdom of Bill's wonderfull and deep world. Still bust a gut at the shark snow sculpture in the front yard strip... :D

Damn,,, I miss C&H. :( Thanks for the memories...
 
macquariumguy said:
You true C&H fans are going to hate me for this one.

Presenting the most depressing thing you'll see today.
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Note - it's a fake. Still the saddest thing though. :( Whoever did that knew exactly what buttons C&H pushes with its fans.
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I think I may cry a little. :( that was so depressing! :(
 
It really is a shame. But think about it. Would you still read the series if it was still going on today? It would be pretty boring in my opinion, because, as someone pointed out earlier, it would become repetitive like Garfield.

I guess I'm glad he ended when he did.
 
Does your city or neighorhood have a comic book store? I live in a small town and I can't find nothing around here.
 
falcon1 said:
Does your city or neighorhood have a comic book store? I live in a small town and I can't find nothing around here.
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Where in GA are you? j/c, as I used to live near the NW corner of the state... absolutely gorgeous area...

As to you can't find anything - can you order online? :)
 
Loved Calvin and Hobbes and the Far Side.
I also always liked Hobbes and like to use him as a source of my 'tar. I'm also a sucker for Tigger from Winnie the Pooh which inspired the name for my childhood cat.
Though my current favorites are Non Sequitur, Dilbert, Pooch Cafe, and Get Fuzzy. Nothing beats reading the Sunday comics from an actual newspaper.
 
Still going after that long?

When I clicked on this thread, I figured it was recent; if was funny to see how long ago it started. For multi-frame comic strips, Calvin & Hobbes was the best. [If you liked the Far Side, get the complete anthology, which has ones that the editors would not allow to be published, including such gems as a dog begging for scraps at an operating table.]

One of the funniest, if not THE funniest, themes was Calvin and Snowmen: http://www.angelfire.com/wa/zzaran/calvin.html It captures the essence of the humor, and I laugh every time I see them.

Thanks for prodding a fond set of memories.

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