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Old 12-24-2006, 11:49 AM   #1
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Old 12-24-2006, 12:27 PM   #2
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I think Calvin's snowmen are my favoutires. Thanks photon.
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While we're on the topic, which were the best comics you ever read?
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Old 12-24-2006, 01:12 PM   #4
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While we're on the topic, which were the best comics you ever read?
Of Calvin & Hobbes, or anything?

Of C&H, it depends. If it is funny, those snowmen always have made me laugh. But there are other times when Watterson seems to have a comic that just says what I feel.

Like when speaking with his dad:
"The world isn't fair, Calvin."
"I know Dad, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favour?"


I have a number of C&H comics on the wall of my cubicle at work.
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Of Calvin & Hobbes, or anything?


Anything. I loved C&K. Will be getting a few books when the young one gets older.
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Anything. I loved C&K. Will be getting a few books when the young one gets older.
If you search, there was a big comics thread a few months ago. There are a number of comics enthusiasts around this site.
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Old 12-25-2006, 04:34 AM   #7
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A lot of those are pretty funny, some where kinda over the top and impossible especially for a 6 year old kid to pull off.

Once did something like that to a friend of mine. My car got stuck in front of his house the night before. Had to come back for it the next day and got a second friend to drive me. Upon inspection of the car, it was going to need to be towed (alternator went I think) but AMA was going to be 3 hours because of all the problems from the storm. Knocked on his door, he wasn't home, so me and my second friend were outside with three hours to burn.

Started building a snowmen and were wondering what to do with him. Was flirting with the possibility of making two anatomically correct snowman on his lawn for all his neighbors to walk by later and 'tsk tsk' about the people that lived there. Eventually thought better of it.

Built the pair anyway looking into his main front window when I came up with the idea of making an army of tiny little ones in perfect formation behind them. The little guys were only about a foot tall while the two larger ones maybe about 5, but before the AMA got there we had made over 200 all complete with tiny little pebble eyes for expressionless stares looking into his picture window with two larger fully formed ones (twig arms, serious faces, army type adornments) leading the ranks.

He told us he got home (came in the back, didn't even see the front) and had a good WTF? on his first glance out the window and then a huge laugh. Mentioned on one level, it was quite creepy.
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Calvin and Hobbes was a great strip and they ended it off on exactly the right note:
http://www-cgi.cnn.com/US/9512/calvin/calvin_hobbes.jpg
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Old 12-26-2006, 01:33 PM   #9
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On a related note, if you have a sticker on your car of Calvin peeing on the logo of a car manufacturer you don't like, please take it off.
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Calvin and Hobbes was a great strip and they ended it off on exactly the right note:
http://www-cgi.cnn.com/US/9512/calvin/calvin_hobbes.jpg

I dunno, I myself felt that ending was a little blah and expected.
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Old 12-26-2006, 02:29 PM   #11
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Calvin and Hobbes was a great strip and they ended it off on exactly the right note:
http://www-cgi.cnn.com/US/9512/calvin/calvin_hobbes.jpg
Was that the very last cartoon ever made?
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On a related note, if you have a sticker on your car of Calvin peeing on the logo of a car manufacturer you don't like, please take it off.
man, no kidding. IMO there is no bigger sign that you are a dumbass redneck than putting one of those stickers on your pickup. Calvin pretty much ****es on every single brand out there, yet these idiots still think they are the wiser.
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On a related note, if you have a sticker on your car of Calvin peeing on the logo of a car manufacturer you don't like, please take it off.

Not that I got one , but what if he's peeing on a greasers symbol
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btw, this would have been a great X-mas present for the Calvin and Hobbes fan in your life.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...search31241-20
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btw, this would have been a great X-mas present for the Calvin and Hobbes fan in your life.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...search31241-20
I've had that on my Amazon wish list for a loooong time now.

And when I got my truck I was given one of thos Calvin graphics. I will not put it on.

Watterson fought the company that syndicated Calvin and Hobbes to keep as much control over his characters as possible and does not allow any merchandising of C&H other than the books. He has done a couple of things for charity, but anything you or I see with Calvin or Hobbes is, without a doubt, infingement.

For a few years, Watterson would sign copies of his books for a bookstore in Ohio (he ceased doing it when speculators started buying up all copies looking for the autographed ones).

Here is a site that covers all things Calvin & Hobbes.
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Calvin and Hobbes is my second favorite strip to Bloom County. Bloom County was hilarious to me as a kid and then when I got older it was even more hilarious as it actually made sense...
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Old 12-27-2006, 01:41 AM   #17
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I have been C & H fan for many years and have the entire collection of his books. The snowman cartoons have to be my all time favourite. Then there's his adventures as Spaceman Spiff.
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