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Calvin and Hobbes
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| 07 November 2005
| Chris Suellentrop
Posted on 11/08/2005 10:56:27 PM PST by Lorianne
Edited on 11/09/2005 5:29:39 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator.
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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.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: billwatterson; calvinandhobbes; cartoonist; cartoons; comic; comics; comicstrip
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posted on
11/08/2005 10:56:28 PM PST
by
Lorianne
To: Lorianne
Patrick McDonnell's Mutts is about the best "art" of comic strip today. It is deceptively simple.
He authored a book on Krazy Kat/George Herriman before he ever launched his strip.
Boondocks is a complete waste of the form and insulting to America. Nothing but racist hate under the guise of "political satire".
I believe that Bill Griffith's Zippy The Pinhead has been at the top of its run thes past 4 years as well.
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posted on
11/08/2005 11:04:34 PM PST
by
weegee
(To understand the left is to rationalize how abortion can be a birthright.)
To: Lorianne
"Ten years ago Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes, left newspaper cartooning for painting." ...and Calvin and Hobbes went touring America on the back of pickup trucks, relieving their bladders as they pleased. I do miss that comic stip.
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posted on
11/08/2005 11:05:20 PM PST
by
MilesVeritatis
(Beware the fury of a patient US military)
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To: MilesVeritatis
When asked why he never licensed C & H commercially, Watterson said, "I greatly underestimated the market for Calvin pissing on a Ford logo".
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posted on
11/08/2005 11:14:12 PM PST
by
fat city
("The nation that controls magnetism controls the world.")
To: MilesVeritatis
Oh yeah- all that "pickup truck art" is black-marketed- Waterson has nothing to do with it.
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posted on
11/08/2005 11:16:33 PM PST
by
fat city
("The nation that controls magnetism controls the world.")
To: Lorianne
C&H was OK...My fav though was....Gasoline Alley. IN fact I'm going to the comics website right now to catch up since my local paper hasn't carried the strip since the '90's.
Hey, what can I say, I'm old and just don't get a lot of these "new" comics.
prisoner6
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posted on
11/08/2005 11:23:06 PM PST
by
prisoner6
(Right Wing Nuts hold the country together as the loose screws of the left fall out!)
To: prisoner6
Peanuts invented the newspaper comic strip as we know it:....I imagine that you agree with me that the author is way off base with that remark.
9
posted on
11/08/2005 11:33:49 PM PST
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government.)
To: Lorianne
I'm old enough to remember truly great daily comics like Pogo, Lil' Abner, Dick Tracy, Dondi and many more that I read in the old Washington Star when they kept the post honest.
10
posted on
11/08/2005 11:53:52 PM PST
by
fella
(Political Correctness = Stuck On Stupid)
To: fella
And Larson's Far Side tickled my funny bone more than once.
11
posted on
11/09/2005 12:18:25 AM PST
by
carumba
To: weegee
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.
12
posted on
11/09/2005 12:46:00 AM PST
by
raynearhood
("America is too great for small dreams." - Ronald Reagan, speech to Congress. January 1, 1984.)
To: Lorianne
To: Mind-numbed Robot
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posted on
11/09/2005 1:19:54 AM PST
by
prisoner6
(Right Wing Nuts hold the country together as the loose screws of the left fall out!)
To: Lorianne
C&H; the best
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posted on
11/09/2005 1:25:28 AM PST
by
truemiester
(If the U.S. should fail, a veil of darkness will come over the Earth for a thousand years)
To: Lorianne
Ditto.
My favorite, also.
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posted on
11/09/2005 1:32:57 AM PST
by
Skooz
(If you believe Adolf Hitler was a Christian, you are a blithering idiot.)
To: Lorianne
Prickly City & Mallard Fillmore are prety good...with a right-leaning slant too.
To: truemiester
One of the C&H throw away lines refers to "the spaghetti incident" with no elaboration on what the incident was.
I have used that line in my life with great results. For Example:
Just before you introduce 2 people, say to the first "if he mentions "The Spaghetti Incident", remember, I had nothing to do with it." Then drop the subject and refuse to elaborate on it. It drives them crazy.
I hate to admit that C&H plays any role in my life, however.
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posted on
11/09/2005 1:45:40 AM PST
by
Lokibob
(Spelling and typos are copyrighted. Please do not use.)
To: Lorianne
Somewhere out there (here) on the net, there is a large thesis that supposes that C&H is really a metaphor for another culturally significant twosome, but I can't remember who.
Does anybody recall this?
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posted on
11/09/2005 1:50:03 AM PST
by
SJSAMPLE
To: F15Eagle
Oh, and "Apartment 3G" Four panel soap operas.
The one I never understood was Nancy and Sluggo. Neither funny nor insightful, just... a dumb comic.
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posted on
11/09/2005 1:53:30 AM PST
by
TN4Liberty
(American... conservative... southern.... It doesn't get any better than this.)
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