Calvin and Hobbes

Slate ^ | 07 November 2005 | Chris Suellentrop

[Lorianne]

Ten years ago Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes, left newspaper cartooning for painting. Since then, no new comic strip has matched the quality, longevity, or cultural dominance of Watterson's daily drawings about a boy and his tiger. There remain good strips, such as Jef Mallett's Frazz; acclaimed strips, such as Aaron McGruder's Boondocks; and venerable strips, such as Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury. But these days, the best-selling comics books tend to be either graphic novels or hardbound anthologies of the greats, such as Fantagraphics Books' The Complete Peanuts.

[Cuttnhorse]

bump for later detailed reading.

Transmorgified in Argentina

[SeeRushToldU_So]

Outland and Bloom County still make me laugh. I think I own the entire Calvin and Hobbes collection and just about everything with Opus and Bill the Cat in it.

Me too.

[drew]

I'm sure the Argentinians claim to have created Calvin and Hobbes.

[drew]

I used to like a strip that ran in the '80's called "Drabble." Pretty funny stuff, but it disappeared from my paper and I never saw it again.

[conservativehusker]

I used to like a strip that ran in the '80's called "Drabble." Pretty funny stuff, but it disappeared from my paper and I never saw it again.


Drabbles is still around..www.comics.com

[alfa6]

Hey, what can I say, I'm old and just don't get a lot of these "new" comics.

Roger That :-)

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Gamecock]

Bump for a later read

[tet68]

Spaceman Spiff Bump.

[fishbabe]

did you ever read the comic strip called 'overboard' by chip dunham???????its about a pirate crew in the 1800's with a definite 20th century attitude..It ran for 2 years and was hilarious!!!!!!!

[don-o]

I Go Pogo!

[Cincinatus]

acclaimed strips, such as Aaron McGruder's Boondocks

My "acclaim" for Boondocks is that it is the most worthless piece of left-wing hate-mongering available in the media today, outside of the latest Michael Moore film.

[DCPatriot]

And Larson's Far Side tickled my funny bone more than once.

LOL!...the boneless chicken ranch comes to mind!

[Bellflower]

I saved the part of the paper with the last C&H strip in it. I think to those of us who really enjoy C&H it is a collectors item.

[Cliff Dweller]

I miss the snowmen... all gathered around a scene of mayhem.

What an imagination!

[Cliff Dweller]

I loved the artwork Bill did for the film Secondhand Lions... a perfect fit for the story.

[Capriole]

I live "Calvin and Hobbes" every day, because I had my own Calvin and his stuffed animal (a lion rather than a tiger). At times it seemed as though Bill Watterson was spying on our family. Now my "Calvin" is no longer six; he's eleven and able to read the books himself. He considers Calvin his alter-ego and he drives me nuts playing on me some of the jokes Calvin played on his mother.

[Drawsing]

So...where are the Bill Watterson paintings?

[savedbygrace]

1) The Far Side (Gary, come back!)

2) Dilbert

3) Pickles

[RoadTest]

"Opus" by Berkely Breathed was the best comic strip. It's gone except for re-runs. Now I settle for C&H and Dilbert. And Prickly City.

[RoadTest]

Opus was also called "Bloom County".