[E Rocc]

The best cartoon ever, except perhaps for Bloom County and Dilbert.

-Eric

[JLS]

You need to be checking out Day by Day if you are not.

http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/Default.aspx

[Charles Henrickson]

C & H is the best comic strip of all time, the best combination of text and drawing.

Right up there, but in a single-panel format, is "Far Side." Those years we had both C & H and FS running at the same time were golden.

[Hugin]

Haven't really read the comics pages since Watterson and Gary Larsen (The Far Side} retired. Nothing makes me laugh.

Some of my favorite Calvin strips were where his dad
"explained" things to him (inaccurately of course).

"Dad, why are old movies black and white?"

"Actually the whole world was black and white back then. It just turned to color later."

"Then why are old paintings in color?"

"They were originally black and white too. They just turned color along with everything else."

[Chickensoup]

We have the complete series. My children love C and H and so do I. It stands the test of time. And the parents always win.

[thoughtomator]

The new "Calvin and Hobbes" is "Pearls Before Swine" by Stephan Pastis. C&H was one of those comics so head-and-shoulders above the rest that it deserves a different category entirely.

[N. Theknow]

What good is wearing your favorite rocketship underpants if nobody asks to see them?

[js1138]

I was about to post when my cat brought in a live bat and turned it loose in the room.

[alwaysconservative]

I agree that Calvin and Hobbes was a delightful interlude, but I DON'T agree with the author's premise that "Prickly City" is merely a "right wing" diatribe. Perhaps the author doesn't "get" political humor, of which "Day by Day" by Chris Muir is THE best and "Prickly City" is also wonderful (even "Get Fuzzy" has had some hilarious political overtones). Prickly City doesn't have the same style as C & H and doesn't pretend to do so. I understand the author's dilemma: the left takes awhile to get the joke unless President Bush is the punchline. In light of that, my new tag (below) really applies to the left.

[mainepatsfan]

Hands down my favorite comic strip of all time.

[shuckmaster]

Calvin, Pogo, Bloom County, and Far Side are in a catagory of their own. I have my favorites in todays paper but the great stuff ain't there.

[Pietro]

"The best cartoon ever, except perhaps for Bloom County and Dilbert."

Don't forget 'Shoe"

[LongElegantLegs]

Compare this...

The excellence and originality of Watterson's work becomes clearer when it's juxtaposed with a derivative strip such as Scott Stantis' "Prickly City." ... "Prickly City," Winslow the coyote often has no legs; his lumpy body just sits on his puffy feet. Carmen's scribbly, misshapen lips appear on the bottom or the side of her blobby cranium, like a Mrs. Potato Head gone wrong. More significantly, Winslow and Carmen have no personalities: They're ciphers who exist to promulgate Stantis' right-wing diatribes.

With this glowing review...

The humor and calligraphic drawing in "Frazz" reflect Watterson's influence, but the strip doesn't feel like a pallid imitation. Songwriter-turned-elementary school janitor Edwin "Frazz" Frazier often plays Hobbes to precocious student Caulfield's Calvin... Mallett's characters have real personalities. The friendship between Frazz and Caulfield isn't just a plot contrivance: They love to read and play tricks on the redoubtable Mrs. Olsen. When Frazz complains about gas-guzzling SUVs, it's because he's an enthusiastic runner and cyclist, not a spokesman for a political agenda.

It's nice to know that, even in the microcosm of the funny pages, liberals are still better then conservatives. /gag

[Brad’s Gramma]

Click dat pic

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[hindsfeetnhighplaces]

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hope these work. I loved Calvin and Hobbes. I even had an orange tabby cat that I named Hobbes. Hobbes and I used to play hide and seek. I would sneak up on him and scare him and he would do the same to me--hide under the table and then "sneak attack" me. Had to put a stop to that though when he jumped off a tall bookcase onto my stomache at 3:00 'o clock in the morning. He would walk with me to the store and wait for me to come out and walk back home together. I miss that cat.

[lawgirl]

I am personally a devotee of Pearls Before Swine and Get Fuzzy.

[DJ MacWoW]

"Calvin and Hobbes" ping

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Watterson is a fricking genius. He timed the strip perfectly (didn't want it to become stale) and he rejected demands from Hollyweird to make Calvin and Hobbes into a motion picture.

Plus he rejected the use of his characters in advertising. So, those decals of Calvin pissing on the Ford or Chevy logos you're buying are illegal.

[IslandJeff]

Getting in a little late, here, but "The Complete C&H" is well worth the price. Three-volume, well-bound, great paper, and Watterson's forward is really touching.

Since newspapers are dying, our generation gets to take the classic strips of the eighties with us. Our kids will wonder...