Go Back   Book & Reader Forums > Bookshelves > Comics and Graphic Novels


Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old 24th December 2004, 04:10 PM
direstraits's Avatar
direstraits direstraits is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: KL!!!
Posts: 2,340
Blog Entries: 5
Send a message via MSN to direstraits Send a message via Yahoo to direstraits Send a message via Skype™ to direstraits
I *miss* Calvin and Hobbes

Sigh...

"Hobbes: That sounds like a lot of work.
Calvin: It's not work if nobody asks you to do it."

I terribly miss Bill Watterson.

ds
__________________
Bookbabble || rambleville || otak || PoP
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 24th December 2004, 04:14 PM
Wabbit Wabbit is offline
Member
Currently Reading: words! I devour them, yet still I hunger.
 
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: London - UK
Posts: 7,906
I get it sent to my email every day. You can too by going here
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old 24th December 2004, 04:53 PM
direstraits's Avatar
direstraits direstraits is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: KL!!!
Posts: 2,340
Blog Entries: 5
Send a message via MSN to direstraits Send a message via Yahoo to direstraits Send a message via Skype™ to direstraits
Thanks for the link Wabbit! I've read quite a few C&H collections, and many of them countless times. Today, chances are I'll read a strip that I've read before. I wouldn't mind seeing new strips from Watterson.

I love it the way he puts his thoughts in the strip, how a 6 year old would talk about marketing concepts such as "divide and conquer" really made me laugh. And his art is beautiful to boot - this is one cartoonist who can really draw.

More of the same please...

ds
__________________
Bookbabble || rambleville || otak || PoP
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old 24th December 2004, 05:08 PM
Wabbit Wabbit is offline
Member
Currently Reading: words! I devour them, yet still I hunger.
 
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: London - UK
Posts: 7,906
Yeah, I agree with you. His comic is funny and yet it can be very thought provoking at the same time too. The art is just wonderful. He was a man with a lot of integrity. I admire him a lot for that. He never sold out! He could have made a fortune by selling branded cups and so forth but he never did. And when he had nothing more to say he just stopped doing it because he wanted to write for love and have something to say rather than just keep writing them as a "job" to make money. Great guy!
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old 24th December 2004, 09:04 PM
Ashlea's Avatar
Ashlea Ashlea is offline
Member
Currently Reading: Princes of Ireland, Edward Rutherfurd
 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Houston, Texas
Posts: 2,176
Send a message via AIM to Ashlea Send a message via Yahoo to Ashlea
I miss Calvin and Hobbes, AND The Far Side. But I'm making it through with Get Fuzzy, which is just hilarious.

more available here
Reply With Quote
  #6  
Old 26th December 2004, 12:16 AM
Cathy C Cathy C is offline
Member
Currently Reading: R is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton
 
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Texas Hill Country
Posts: 519
Send a message via Yahoo to Cathy C
I miss Calvin too! I have every collection they made. Get Fuzzy is super, as well. One of my hubby's "stocking stuffers" today was a Get Fuzzy 2005 calendar! That and a comedy CD made him very happy!
__________________
Come visit if you'd like to! Read a chapter or just look at the pictures...
Cathy's Website
Reply With Quote
  #7  
Old 28th December 2004, 01:28 PM
direstraits's Avatar
direstraits direstraits is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: KL!!!
Posts: 2,340
Blog Entries: 5
Send a message via MSN to direstraits Send a message via Yahoo to direstraits Send a message via Skype™ to direstraits
I just learnt that there is a complete collection of C&H coming out next year in a 3-volume hardcover set.

Hehe... i'm checking out Get Fuzzy, and you're right, Ash, it's pretty darn funny!

ds
__________________
Bookbabble || rambleville || otak || PoP
Reply With Quote
  #8  
Old 9th January 2005, 06:59 PM
Twigleg's Avatar
Twigleg Twigleg is offline
Member
Currently Reading: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
 
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Somewhere...
Posts: 9
Send a message via AIM to Twigleg
Calvin and Hobbes was really great, I miss it too :(
As of now I only have "Calvin & Hobbes" and "Yukon Ho!", but my friend lets me read hers, and she has every collection!
Get Fuzzy is hilarious. If Calvin and Hobbes had to go, Get Fuzzy is a nice substitute ^_^
Reply With Quote
  #9  
Old 9th January 2005, 07:09 PM
Wabbit Wabbit is offline
Member
Currently Reading: words! I devour them, yet still I hunger.
 
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: London - UK
Posts: 7,906
Calvin and Hobbes

I saw this one yesterday and thought it was particular great!

Reply With Quote
  #10  
Old 10th January 2005, 03:05 AM
opinion8ed2's Avatar
opinion8ed2 opinion8ed2 is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Virginia
Posts: 45
Send a message via AIM to opinion8ed2 Send a message via Yahoo to opinion8ed2
Augh! I miss Calvin and Hobbes too. It was my favorite. I would go to the library like every week and check out the same comic books I had checked out only a couple weeks before, and read them all over again.
__________________
'You asked me once,' said O'Brien, 'what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world.'

Reply With Quote
  #11  
Old 10th January 2005, 05:56 PM
soxfan's Avatar
soxfan soxfan is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Boston, Mass.
Posts: 107
I miss them too! It was a sad day when they signed off.

soxfan
off to sign up for the daily e-mail
__________________
Coming out of left field
Reply With Quote
  #12  
Old 10th January 2005, 08:15 PM
Oberon's Avatar
Oberon Oberon is offline
Member
Currently Reading: The Baroque Cycle (Neal Stephenson)
 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Greentown, Illinois
Posts: 229
Sigh! There's nothing like C & H out there ...

C: I like to verb words.
H: What?
C: I take nouns and adjectives and use them as verbs. Remember when "access" was a thing? Now, it's something you do. It got verbed.
C: Verbing weirds language.
H: Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding.

Every time I see a decal of the likeness of Calvin peeing, I want to throw a rock at the vehicle displying it ... :mad:
__________________
As the evening sky faded from a salmon color, to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.
Reply With Quote
  #13  
Old 10th January 2005, 10:15 PM
Prolixic Prolixic is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2002
Posts: 623
Quote:
Originally Posted by Oberon
Every time I see a decal of the likeness of Calvin peeing, I want to throw a rock at the vehicle displying it ... :mad:
I with you there.

Three of my favs gone except in calendars and table books: Calvin and Hobbes, Non Sequitur (except Sundays someplaces) and Far Side. *sigh

I loved the fact that Calvin's Dad was a roadie (as opposed to a treadhead). One of my favorites shows Calvin laughing at him on the way out, the subsequent horrendous wreck, and Calvin laughing at him on the way in. Don't know why. Its a good 'un.
Reply With Quote
  #14  
Old 10th January 2005, 10:34 PM
hay82 hay82 is offline
Member
Currently Reading: Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
 
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Denmark
Posts: 1,291
Send a message via MSN to hay82
They used to bring a Calvin & Hobbes strip in one of the free newspapers they hand out in the bus so I read it every morning on my way to Uni.. unfortunatly the have replaced it with Donald duck..

My favorite Calvin & Hobbes, I couldn't find it on the internet so you just have to imagine it from my description(hope its enough):
Calvin is in the living room hammering nails into the coffee table. His mother comes in sees what he is doing and cries "What do you think you are doing?". Calvin looks up at his mother and asks "Is that supposed to be a rhetorical question?"
__________________
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! - Friedrich Nietzsche
Reply With Quote
  #15  
Old 10th January 2005, 10:52 PM
hay82 hay82 is offline
Member
Currently Reading: Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
 
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Denmark
Posts: 1,291
Send a message via MSN to hay82
Read and learn the truth about writing.
__________________
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! - Friedrich Nietzsche
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are Off
Pingbacks are Off
Refbacks are Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 05:40 AM.


Other Social Knowledge forum communities:
Cooking Forum - Sailing Forum - Early Retirement - Airstream Trailer - Aquarium Forum - Royal Forum - Book Forum - Volkswagen Touareg Forum - Jeep Wrangler Forum - Whitewater Kayaking & Rafting Forum - Fiberglass RV Forum - RV Forum - Truck Conversion - U2 Music Forum
Social Knowledge Networks
Forums Powered by: vBulletin Version 3.8.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2010, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Content Relevant URLs by vBSEO 3.2.0