I miss Calvin and Hobbes (1 Viewer)

[NCCommish]

Well if we are going 3 I would have to go in no particular order Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, and Far Side. I like others a lot(Donnesbury) but these three were all good for consistent laughs.

Those would be my three favorites, in order.Of course I might be a little biased too.

Desk

 

[St. Louis Bob]

Well if we are going 3 I would have to go in no particular order Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, and Far Side. I like others a lot(Donnesbury) but these three were all good for consistent laughs.

Those would be my three favorites, in order.Of course I might be a little biased too.

Desk

Big fan of Bloom County too. As a FFA PSA, don't trip shrooms and read Far Side.

 

[Orange Crush]

The Calvin and Hobbes Searchable Database

 

[Topes]

Calvin and Hobbes, Bloom County, and Far Side!

All those are gone and Family Circus is going strong. Yet some people still believe in God...

Calvin's mom. Always wondered how Calvin's dad coulda landed that.

 

[Mr. Ected]

Always thought I was blessed growing up (and passed growing up!) being around 3 of the best cartoon strips ever written...Calvin and Hobbes, Bloom County, and Far Side!

There just isn't much that comes close to what those guys were able to put down on paper.

Non Sequitor and Fox Trot come close but are a step down, and Dilbert is in a class by itself!

Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes are in a class by themselves. Really loved those strips tremendously. Never got into Bloom County, but I can see the appeal a little bit. Dilbert is one I never understood and have never thought was remotely funny. Is it still being written?

Dilbert is still being written, in the Wash Post (my local paper) it is published in the business section. Similar to how Doonsbury was/is in the Style section. I always was a huge fan of Dilbert, but it even made more sense when I moved from a not-for-profit of 15 people to work at Marriott's HQ with several thousand!As far as Bloom County, I haven't gone back to read it in a long time, and I wonder if some of it may be "lost in the 80s" although one of my favorite cartoons of all time was a Bloom County, where Binkley describes to his father (both white) how they are actually minority...hysterical!

This is one of the beauties of Calvin and Hobbes, they are just about a little kid and his tiger. I love how you never learned his parent's names, and other minor details like that.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

I always liked the ones where he pretends his dad needs to run for re-election. "The polls don't look good, you need to think about moving bedtime back."

Those are some of my favorites.

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[Gigantomachia]

Too bad the dude that wrote C&H was such an ###.He basically quite over marketing rights.

I don't think so.

Yes, but not in the way Giganto puts it. He was very must interested in his artistic integrity, and didn't want his characters to become commercial vehicles. So when Universal, who owned the rights (for which he collected royalties), began to make C&H into Snoopy kind of sales prostitutes, he quit. Entirely within his rights to do so. He cared more about his artistic integrity than the money.

I don't blame him for doing what he thought was right but this is one very odd dude if all the stuff I've seen written about him over the years is true. Very reclusive. And not so easy to get along with.

I actually have one of the shirts that dude #####ed was ripping him off. "Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile." Under a pic of C&H dancing. I love this shirt!

 

[Professor S]

As far as Bloom County, I haven't gone back to read it in a long time, and I wonder if some of it may be "lost in the 80s" although one of my favorite cartoons of all time was a Bloom County, where Binkley describes to his father (both white) how they are actually minority...hysterical!

Agreed wholeheartedly . . . that might be my favorite cartoon of all time, and that's saying a lot considering how big of a Far Side and C&H fan I am!

 

[chuckorc]

Seriously really do miss this strip.

Best strip ever, I think know I teared up when the last one came out and every time I have read it since. Haven't found one to fill the gap even remotely since although I gave Boondocks a long run.My brother has the complete boxed set, just plain awesome. I read them every time I am home and wish for the days when summer meant something special.

The Boondocks strip >>>>>> the Boondocks cartoon

 

[BroncoFreak_2K3]

Bill the Cat was my first tattoo

 

[mmmWaffles]

http://www.s-anand.net/blog/calvin-and-hob...plains-science/

I always wanted to have a kid - just for this reason.

 

[mmmWaffles]

Gotta check out Bloom County, not sure I've read it.

Ack! Thbbbt!

Love that.

 

[WampusCat43]

I had the last strip of C&H and Bloom County (where Opus walks off into the sunset with his campaigner's hat) both framed. Still have them.

 

[GregR_2]

Well if we are going 3 I would have to go in no particular order Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, and Far Side. I like others a lot(Donnesbury) but these three were all good for consistent laughs.

After all these years, I still remember off the top of my head the lyrics to a Deathtongue song:

Leper Lover, creature of the dark,

Drip your disease, leave your mark

Through the gutter, slime and stinky,

George Bush is a twinky.

As true today as it was then!

 

[Limp Ditka]

Well if we are going 3 I would have to go in no particular order Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, and Far Side. I like others a lot(Donnesbury) but these three were all good for consistent laughs.

After all these years, I still remember off the top of my head the lyrics to a Deathtongue song:

Leper Lover, creature of the dark,

Drip your disease, leave your mark

Through the gutter, slime and stinky,

George Bush is a twinky.

As true today as it was then!

Middle of the roadMan it stanks

Let's run over Lionel Ritchie

With a tank.

 

[RoarinSonoran]

BC and C&H, ah those were the good ol' days.

I still have Bill the Cat, Opus, and Oliver Wendel Jones (working on his Banana Jr 6000, of course) tshirts, plus a book or two of C&H's best.

:starchairenterpoop:

 

[Varmint]

My 16yr old daughter absolutely LOVES C&H.....

She named her cat "Hobbes"

I bought her THIS for her last birthday.

Really cool.

EVERY cartoon...in three volumes...in order and date of appearance bound in leather

 

[badmojo1006]

Ever Wished That Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson Would Return to the Comics Page? Well, He Just Did.

 

[Premier]

http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2014/06/07

That was from the next day.

Actually kind of made me sad.

 

[Premier]

In the first panel of the second strip you can really see Hobbes talking to Calvin.

 

[Dickie Dunn]

My wife had a dog named Hobbes.

I agree with everyone here who named Bloom County, C&H and The Far Side as the three comic strips that helped shape the thinking of a college-aged student of the late '80s.

 

[Brownsfan]

No love for Mary Worth?

 

[Amused to Death]

My wife had a dog named Hobbes.

I agree with everyone here who named Bloom County, C&H and The Far Side as the three comic strips that helped shape the thinking of a college-aged student of the late '80s.

And Dilbert for anyone who's ever worked for an engineering company.

 

[Mjolnirs]

Ever Wished That Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson Would Return to the Comics Page? Well, He Just Did.

Thanks for the link.

 

[rockaction]

Great links. This thread caused me to look up Bobbi, Milo, and the python, which I remember as hilarious.

Found a whole snake page. You need to scroll to enlarge.

http://www.thecomicstrips.com/subject/The-Snake-Comic-Strips-by-Bloom+County.php

 

[Dragons]

Ever Wished That Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson Would Return to the Comics Page? Well, He Just Did.

That's awesome!

 

[Klimtology]

Me too!

Thanks for posting!

 

[Franknbeans]

I clipped the last Sunday strip. Sad day when it ended. I don't even read the comics anymore. All others pale in comparison.

 

[Binky The Doormat]

I stopped comics when Gary Larson quit.

 

[Andrew74]

Other than some Dilbert for a while, 1995 was the end of my comics reading.

 

[Courtjester]

I have not read a comic since these three were no longer available. That being said, this thread made me go into storage and get out all my C&H and Far Side books. My 14 year old daughter was like what is the point of these? My 9 year old daughter hasn't put them down all day.

 

[Bogart]

Calvin caused an estimated $15,955.50 worth of damage over the duration of the comic strip.

 

[playin4beer]

I have the complete collection of C&H... I love going back through and re-reading them..

My 8 year old daughter has picked up on them and likes reading them.. I'm sure most of the jokes go way over her head.

I asked her if she thought Hobbes was real or pretend.. She said, "He's real, but only when Calvin is alone..otherwise, he's pretend to everybody else"