'Calvin and Hobbes' Creator Keeps Privacy

Associated Press ^ | October 22, 2005 | Joe Milicia

[caryatid]

Due to the lateness of the hour, I have turned into an idiot and

[4] Whew! I am not too exhausted to see the humour in it.

should have read:

[4] Whew! I am MUCH too exhausted to see the humour in it.

[Rastus]

I like Pickles and Drabble, and usually Pearls Before Swine.

[uglybiker]

[Turbopilot]

I'm sorry you missed the point of my post, which was to clue adult readers into a strip that used insightful anthropomorphism and deeply drawn characters to generate both humor and insight. A reader should not, in fact, ignore adult content, but rather put it into the context appropriate to appreciate the humor that goes far beyond the crass levels to which an unobservant browser would attribute to the comic, much as an unobservant reader would apply to C&H

I'm sorry if you can't separate content not appropriate for children from the point of such content, which is designed for adults who can make such judgments. You don't have to like the comic, but you should at least dislike it on its merits; right now, based on your post, you have come across as someone who doesn't like Botticelli's Venus because there might be boobies. Not exactly an intellectual viewpoint.

[Choose Ye This Day]

I'd still like to figure out how Calvin got the snowman to hold up a big, heavy head with those spindly little branch arms. A 6-year old that can defy the laws of physics is not someone to be trifled with.

[Lancey Howard]

Yes! 'Tumbleweeds' was an excellent strip.
'Born Loser' and 'B.C.' are also excellent.

When I was a kid ('60s) I used to read a strip called 'Katzenjammer Kids' which was interesting, but a tad disturbing (for reasons that I don't remember).

[Turbopilot]

Fair enough. I'm sorry I exposed you to modern humor. Please feel free to return to your shell.

[Central Scrutiniser]

I'll take Zippy the Pinhead any day. But I do miss Calvin & Hobbes.

[bootless]

Bill Watterson is one of my everyday heroes. I love Calvin & Hobbes - I had no idea he was so young (i.e., my age).

There's treasure everywhere.

[Flux Capacitor]

----(speaking of angry, did you get the impression from the strip that Calvin's parents weren't too wild about each other -- or about him?)----

There did to be something of a distance between them all. I often found CALVIN AND HOBBES to be a bittersweet strip, for Calvin was ultimately a very lonely kid.... no real friends except for an imaginary (?) tiger, and parents whose love for him was rarely overtly displayed.

Calvin actually had a great deal in common with Charlie Brown. Both were wise beyond their years; both were confused and frustrated by the world around them. It was also painfully clear that neither Charlie nor Calvin were equipped to survive in that world as the grown-ups they were doomed to become. Calvin merely came up with far more imaginative and hilarious means of dealing with life; his was an eternal childhood, and we always got the sense that was for the best.

-Dan

[caryatid]

You don't have to like the comic, but you should at least dislike it on its merits; right now, based on your post, you have come across as someone who doesn't like Botticelli's Venus because there might be boobies. Not exactly an intellectual viewpoint.

I dislike it entirely because you have recommended it. Trying to use big words in an insulting manner only makes you look foolish.

I will try to resist saying that I am surprised that you have ever heard of Botticelli. Oops! It just slipped out.

G'night Turbo.

[namsman]

Ping

"Don't you just hate it when your boogers freeze?" A deathless line from Calvin.

Namsman sends.

[Choose Ye This Day]

Now you're just being a pompous jerk. I mean, really. This whole smug, condescending attitude is rather childish.

I imagine you think you're smarter than the rest of us lesser mortals, because you understand the existential nuances of this "modern" masterpiece, and I'm just too much of an ign'ant Goober to communicate with someone on your higher plane. Perhaps I should be grateful that you even condescend to communicate with us intellectually-challenged nimrods, in the hope of enlightening us with comic strips.

Get over yourself. It's just a poorly drawn, unfunny comic strip that is quirky, offbeat and rather dull. You like it. I don't. It's not the end of my world.

[Chewbacca]

"There is something really admirable about somebody who creates something wonderful and then doesn't seek attention for the rest of his life or try to milk his creation for every last dime."

You must be referring to Garfield? That comic strip seems to be just a continuing regurgitation of previous ideas from the 80's.

[kpp_kpp]

http://www.angelfire.com/wa/zzaran/calvin.html

[gondramB]

"You must be referring to Garfield? That comic strip seems to be just a continuing regurgitation of previous ideas from the 80's."

Among others....

Apparently they are making Rocky 6, the Geriatric years.

[caryatid]

Well said, Choose Ye ... glad that someone is making sense at this time of the early morning.

Cheers!
caryatid

[Flux Capacitor]

GARFIELD isn't a strip, it's a machine. It's hard to say which person or group of persons is writing and drawing it at any given time (hint: not Jim Davis). What value it did have as a comic strip was wrung dry by 1990 and now it's just tired jokebook-level material.

-Dan

[Squantos]

Calvin & Hobbes, Bloom County, Peanuts were always my source of grins from the funny papers.......Red and Rover has kinda replaced Calvin and Hobbes these days......Non Sequitur is my favorite along with the surviving peanuts strip.

The movie second hand lions kinda involved the strip from bloom county didn't it ? Or at least the strip creator BB....???

[Choose Ye This Day]

They just had Berke Breathed draw the panels that the movie character drew. It wasn't his story or anything like that.

Breathed is still an amazing artist, even though he has apparently misplaced his funny bone.