Calvin and Hobbes ... gone but not forgotten.

[N2NH]

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[NQ6U]

Probably one of the best strips ever, at least on par with Pogo, although in a totally different comic genre.

[KA5PIU]

Hello.

Part of the trouble with Calvin and Hobbs was that the creator wanted more control and a larger area to work with.
Newspapers are a vanishing breed and so what he was asking for was not available.
Peanuts was a comic strip that made the transition to the type of media that would allow this, television.
Now, with the advent of the internet, Calvin and Hobbs could indeed make a return, with a much larger area as well as total creative control.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Watterson
But he has decided not to do this.

[NA4BH]

Hello.

Part of the trouble with Calvin and Hobbs was that the creator wanted more control and a larger area to work with.
Newspapers are a vanishing breed and so what he was asking for was not available.
Peanuts was a comic strip that made the transition to the type of media that would allow this, television.
Now, with the advent of the internet, Calvin and Hobbs could indeed make a return, with a much larger area as well as total creative control.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Watterson
But he has decided not to do this.

Why don't you fly up there in your helicopter and talk some sense into the mans head, for GOD sake.

[NQ6U]

Why don't you fly up there in your helicopter and talk some sense into the mans head, for GOD sake.

Mossad won't let him. They need Rudy to repair the Motorola radios he stole from the Saudi embassy.

[W3WN]

Hello.

Part of the trouble with Calvin and Hobbs was that the creator wanted more control and a larger area to work with.
Newspapers are a vanishing breed and so what he was asking for was not available.
Peanuts was a comic strip that made the transition to the type of media that would allow this, television.
Now, with the advent of the internet, Calvin and Hobbs could indeed make a return, with a much larger area as well as total creative control.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Watterson
But he has decided not to do this.
Cowthief, do you even read the wikipedia links?

He didn't want more control. He didn't want to give up control, as he was being pressured to sign over rights for merchandising. And he was concerned that he had said everything he wanted to say -- and has stated in a relatively recent news release, about 15 years after the end of the strip, that he did NOT want to restart it.

Sometimes it takes a wise man to know when to stop, when he's at the top of his game. (Even if he did end up moving to Cleveland, well, nobody's perfect)

And he did get what he wanted regarding the Sunday strips and how the panels were to be sized.

[N8YX]

I looked through the comic section of our local newspaper a few days ago...for the first time in many years.

In short, almost all of them suck.

There will never be another Peanuts...C&H...or Bloom County. The rest IMNSHO are just wastes of ink.

ETA:

Avatar change in honor of the strip. Its creator once stated that the 'Tracer Bullet' series were so difficult to draw that he did very few...and many people (myself included) feel they are Patterson's best work.

[KG4CGC]

Hello.

Part of the trouble with Calvin and Hobbs was that the creator wanted more control and a larger area to work with.
Newspapers are a vanishing breed and so what he was asking for was not available.
Peanuts was a comic strip that made the transition to the type of media that would allow this, television.
Now, with the advent of the internet, Calvin and Hobbs could indeed make a return, with a much larger area as well as total creative control.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Watterson
But he has decided not to do this.
I was going to tell you that this is all utter BS but I see others have beat me to it.

[w2amr]

I was going to tell you that this is all utter BS but I see others have beat me to it.I dint say a word. It's part of my new years resolution.

[kb2crk]

did rudy post something?????lol

[w2amr]

did rudy post something?????lolAttaguy, you took the pledge too?:lol:

[KA5PIU]

I looked through the comic section of our local newspaper a few days ago...for the first time in many years.

In short, almost all of them suck.

There will never be another Peanuts...C&H...or Bloom County. The rest IMNSHO are just wastes of ink

ETA:

Avatar change in honor of the strip. Its creator once stated that the 'Tracer Bullet' series were so difficult to draw that he did very few...and many people (myself included) feel they are Patterson's best work.

Hello.


I so totally agree.
The days of a good newspaper are behind us, now it is all college educated mindless drones.
I had one reporter explain to me that he talked to the police about an incident so I asked him the name of the person he spoke to.
He then said that "We have people who do this for us".
I pointed out that he in fact did not speak to the police.
A few months later he runs into me and is upset that the TV stations ran the story about my incident at the Mosque.
I have time so we go to the local city service center and have them pull up the police report.
Turns out that he called the newspaper researcher who called the police, and in the process got WRATTEN, with the W silent, mixed up with RATAN, no wonder.
They also was looking for Islamic Center of San Antonio, but since I was detained on the sidewalk and not inside a building or on private property they used the street block number only.
Finally, I give them the exact date and time of the incident, 09/11/09 at 05:02am.
They were looking at felony jail intake only.
Fact of the matter is that I was detained on suspicion and not formally charged with anything.
Abe Levy of the San Antonio Express-News newspaper, (210)250-3000, religion reporter.

[KG4CGC]

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[KG4CGC]

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[suddenseer]

Attaguy, you took the pledge too?:lol:It aint a new year ...yet, but I digress. And now a scene from my favorite all star game.
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[W1GUH]

I looked through the comic section of our local newspaper a few days ago...for the first time in many years.

In short, almost all of them suck.

There will never be another Peanuts...C&H...or Bloom County. The rest IMNSHO are just wastes of ink.

ETA:

Avatar change in honor of the strip. Its creator once stated that the 'Tracer Bullet' series were so difficult to draw that he did very few...and many people (myself included) feel they are Patterson's best work.

Wow. Whatever paper that was it surely must must really suck. There are lots and lots of great comics with great social commentary going on...if you'll take the time to seek them out and understand what they're doing.

First of all, Doonesbury is still just as strong as ever...and if Doonesbury is there, do you really need to know anything more? Beyond that, the usual staples are outstanding...Beetle Baily and Dagwood are still outstanding.

And the recent ones? Pearls Before Swine is so freakin' funny with it's acerbic commentary on our f'ed up society is just outstanding! And Sherman's Lagoon has so very, very much to say about how the US population, as a whole is totaly STUPID!!!

And Lio? Getouttahere! How can you not love it?

I'd suggest getting a better paper with which to judge today's comics. Either that, or spend some time getting to know life beyond your insular, local community.

[KG4CGC]

Pearls Before Swine was banned from this area the first week it ran. I could not for the life of me see what was wrong with it.
Then again, we were the first ones behind Jerry Falwell when he became aroused by a purple children's cartoon character.

[NQ6U]

Pearls Before Swine is probably about the best mainstream comic strip out there right now, although Get Fuzzy is also excellent. Mutts is also good in a sweet sort of way.

[W1GUH]

Pearls Before Swine is probably about the best mainstream comic strip out there right now, although Get Fuzzy is also excellent. Mutts is also good in a sweet sort of way.

Thanks...you mentioned two great ones that I totally forgot....Get Fuzzy (I LOVE that strip!) and Mutts.

And, how could any of us forget Dilbert? Shame on me...shame on all of you who haven't mentioned our hero!

[kb2vxa]

"And Sherman's Lagoon has so very, very much to say about how the US population, as a whole is totally STUPID!!!"
Not surprisingly, it's on the other side of our island just a short F hop from the Alpha Hotel. Being without an access road and in perpetual darkness it would be impossible to find if not for the small lighted sign that says welcome to the dark side of The Farce.