In honor of this great comic strip and the memories it gave us feel free to put your favorite strip.
>>77546678
>this thread won't get off the ground
Don't be too disheartened. It might work if you started a little later. There was some C+H discussion in the Charlie Brown threads when the older Schulz stuff got posted so it's not like the fish aren't here. They just ain't biting.
I wish i had some strips on my computer or i'd post some.
Loved C&H and will always love it. It was my first ever comic. Even now I have the torn up cover less collection i read as a kid, now accompanied by my complete collection.
I love pretty much any strip where his dad says some shit to mess with him.
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>>77547225
>Work at a daycare center
>Tell all the kids color wasn't invented until the twenties.
>They look at me weird while i laugh and pat myself on the back.
I know it's been said many times before, but it's amazing how much integrity Watterson has. He could have made so much money licensing Calvin and Hobbes for merchandise and cartoons but chose to preserve his art.
Not that I'm saying it's wrong to make money that way. Jim Davis unashamedly squeezes Garfield for all it's worth, and makes no pretense about caring about quality.
Was this ever pubished in other countries? It's weird that I never got this one.
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>>77547352
What I love about Calvin's Dad fucking with him is that he doesn't just say wrong things, he always has a line of bullshit that seems sensible to six year old to argue with Calvin and convince him of his lies.
>>77546678
>Calvin and hobbies
wait a sec are you trying to trigger me
>>77547391
Get the fuck out of here Goofy.
a personal favorite panel that is increasingly apt in American political discourse
>>77547461
That was turned into one of the 4chan page top banners long ago, anon.
My dad had a whole collection of strips he'd cut out of the paper,he even framed the last one but I can't find it anywhere. Strange.
>>77547486
I know, but its still a calvin and hobbes image thread and im on mobile
>>77547461
Man, C&H is an incredible kind of comic strip.
Nothing comes close to replicating the adventures of a 6-year-old with a wild imagination.
Did anyone else get bummed out as a kid when you started thinking about Hobbes being imaginary?
>>77547536
I grew up an only child like calvin so I was always at peace with hobbes being imaginary. My family avoided me and i lived somewhere where i couldn't go out and play with the neighbor kids so most of my free time was spent in my imagination too.
I was never bummed hobbes was imaginary, I was bummed that i couldn't make anything as real as hobbes was to calvin.
>>77547555
damn man that's prophetic
My dad had this on the fridge.
>>77547536
Maybe look at it the other way: Hobbes is real to Calvin, and that's all that matters. The strip was about the wonder and power of imagination and creativity and exploration.
Whether or not Hobbes was real, Calvin made him real, and that's a power we all have.
Too many to count, C+H is my favourite strip. But I'm an astrophysicist, so this one hits very close to home.
>>77547649
I think this is closer to what I meant.
>>77547765
People used to look at the stars obsessively before modern times. Some people literally worshipped them.
Then they went on to slaughter and enslave each other.
>>77547351
Really? That's sad. C+H was the last great American newspaper strip. Nothing since has really been comparable.
>>77547812
What was great about it was that it was good without being cynical and bitter like so many modern comics, but also without being too sappy and childish.
>>77547390
One of my favorite strips (I don't have it) is the one where the dad points out to him that the inner point of a spinning record must travel at a lower speed than the outer point, and the last panel is just Calvin laying in bed at night completely baffled at how this must work
How do you all feel that within your lifetime you will inevitably see a C+H movie, probably 3d animated like the peanuts, that will completely fuck up the appeal of the strip
>>77547947
> This seems sweet until you remember Hobbes is Calvin's imaginary friend
Anyone have the screen cap where OP ask if there is anything the box can't do?
This is probably my favorite
>>77547917
Not as long as Watterson is alive (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Watterson#Fight_against_merchandising_the_cartoon_characters):
>Watterson's position eventually won out and he was able to renegotiate his contract so that he would receive all rights to his work, but later added that the licensing fight exhausted him and contributed to the need for a nine-month sabbatical in 1991.
Watterson himself will never allow a movie. When he dies hopefully his estate will respect his wishes. I hope his will states that Calvin and Hobbes can never be licensed.
>>77548024
After a certain amount of time, doesn't it become public domain anyway? Like 50-70 years after the creation?
>>77547882
>>77548024
I really don't get him. He's not whoring his wife.
>>77547947
>24 years old as of last week and I still haven't found a person i can talk to while i eat apples on a bright fall morning.
There's a reason i spend my free time smoking weed and just day dreaming.
>>77546678
I think my favorites are probably anything with Tracer Bullet in them.
>>77548024
oh man. I remember looking for the strip that was made on the day i was born but he skipped nearly the entire year. now i know why.
>>77547995
wait i found it
i forgot it was from /tg/
>>77548063
Anon, if anything recent years should have shown you exactly why people would want to retain control over their intellectual property. LOok what Hollywood does to them when they don't.
Does your heart still break when reading it?
>>77548099
God dammit, captcha ate the image.
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>>77548129
Peanuts it's just Peanuts, like always.
>>77548126
>save a baby racoon.
>>77548129
somewhere in the multiverse josh trank just received a script for the C&H movie
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>>77548135
Two stories from C+H have really stuck with me, and it's this one, and the one where Calvin breaks his dad's binoculars
Both hit so close to home
>>77548052
Yeah, for works created after 1978 it's author life + 70 years. I'm 31, Watterson is 57. He'll probably live at least another 20-30 years, so if his estate maintains his stance you're looking at at least a century before his works enter public domain.
I'll be dead by then, thankfully spared the future horror of retro nostalgia in the early 2110s.
>>77547882
I like that one too.
>>77548220
> Singularity is reached
> Immortality is accomplished
> All culture becomes an endless hell of nostalgia porn
Being human is suffering
>>77548286
That would make a good sci-fi book or movie.
A guy living in a post-Singularity future is constantly trying to die to free himself from the endless nostalgia bullshit.
>>77547351
Yes. I'm from Colombia and I loved reading Calvin and Hobbes when I was a kid.
>>77547536
Not really.
But mainly because there's proof that Hobbes might actually be alive or at least that calvin might be psychic or some kind of reality warper.
There's a strip that implies heavily that Hobbes took some tuna out that would've been impossible for calvin that even his parents acknowledge.
The snowgoons actually build themselves and even move on their own
In one arc he makes clones that actually interact with others while the real calvin is actually doing other things. At one point they even alternate days they go to school. He eventually turns them into actual worms. None of this is his inagination and are things taking place in the real world.
>>77548286
Post-singularity, you can just create a population of a million copies of yourself, overclock them to run at greatly accelerated speed, have them consume shittons of content by copies of various authors (created under threat of pain if necessary), and then read the classics that emerge.
>>77548377
No, the Disney Swarm, a collective of godlike AIs that are the final form of todays' copyright holders, works ceaselessly to prevent this and force everyone to constantly consume their nostalgic holdings.
>>77547351
Yep, I have a couple of collections translated into German.
That time the comic predicted vaporwave
>>77548329
you need to re-read the strips then. just because they happened in the real world doesn't mean it's not his imagination.
The fact that calvin eats green slime every single night for dinner is his imagination too.
the tuna, clones, and snowgoons were all imagined.
Calvin is just that crafty as fuck kid who'll roll around in dirt and rip his clothes up just to immerse himself in his world and say that his tiger misses him so much he attacks him every day after school
Some of my favorite strips are the ones where he plays House with Susie or something and the strip does an art shift to reflect that
On another note, it was interesting that for the entirety of the run, there was only ONE comic strip that really solidly implied that Calvin had feelings for Susie and vice versa (it was a valentines day one, where Comic sent Susie some dead flowers, and she pelts him with a snowball, and the last panel is Susie thinking "He sent me flowers! He does like me!" and Calvin is thinking "She noticed! She does like me!"
>>77548704
I was just about to post one of those.
Alright guys, Challenge.
Post bad Calvin and Hobbes strips
>>77548757
The contrast of the art style and the same old dialogue always gets me laughing, thanks anon
>>77548782
Alright, here's one.
>>77548569
If his clones are real then calvin suffers from split personality disorder as he's unable to remember the events his clones have experienced. Even botj calvin and the clones were able to do things simultaniously, see the interactins with his parents.
His snow goods were cappable of actual movement on their own as we see one successfully make it from his yard to his front porch. They also had to have made more of them selves as Calvin has a lawn full of them when he sets out to freeze them solid in a surprise attack.
>>77548782
Why this was not posted yet?
>>77548807
How are you this autistic?
The strip is from Calvin's POV. We see the world as he imagines it, that's why crazy shit happens. It's all in Calvin's imagination.
His "fights" with the snow goons and their "movement" is just him playing in his head. The "clone" thing is just an imaginary game he's playing.
>>77548873
>>77548873
"Let's hope it's a divorce" gets me every time.
>>77548833
How is this bad? This is hilarious
I still can't believe the syndicate didnt censor this one and it ran in most papers
>>77548873
I hope it's a divorce it's the funniest panel of all time.
>>77549022
exactly. In it's entirety there are no bad strips. just fairly boring ones.
>>77549030
There was another one he did where he did a pretty graphic (for a newspaper strip) drawing of a superhero getting a hole blown through his stomach
>>77548883
>Playing
Calvin is left frustrated with his clones as his already poor performance slips even further neither knows what the other knew and again, the interactions with his parents alone says they existed in universe.
The snowgoons movement actually happens as well. It's the parent that finds it of the porch. Calvin could not have just moved it or any of the snowmen himself.
Taking even taht away, there would be nothing that explains how the snowgoons built more of themselves while calvin was inside the house.
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>>77549119
>Calvin is left frustrated with his clones as his already poor performance slips even further neither knows what the other knew and again, the interactions with his parents alone says they existed in universe.
Calvin himself did everything, we're just seeing the silly imaginary situation he's created.
>The snowgoons movement actually happens as well. It's the parent that finds it of the porch. Calvin could not have just moved it or any of the snowmen himself.
Taking even taht away, there would be nothing that explains how the snowgoons built more of themselves while calvin was inside the house.
Calvin built them and moved them himself. That's what happened in reality. We see his imaginary version from his POV.
It's like you don't even have a concept of what imagination is. What a sad life you must lead.
>>77548904
Based anon who posted the "No! This is idiotic! I refuse!" panel, can you isolate and post the divorce panel as well?
Here's one he got some hate mail for, he comments on it at the bottom.
>>77549134
This makes me wonder if Watterson would ever be willing to do a book with Image, since they let the creators retain full rights to their works.
>>77549232
Sorry to disappoint, but I had that saved from a thread a long time ago
>>77549119
you're not getting it.
There was probably only the few vital snowgoons, the rest is just calvin imagining them.
.
And for a kid who's bored and all alone except for his imagination. trouble like the clones gave him IS playing.
Remember that one arc where he transforms himself into a tiger but then the transmogrifyer breaks and he can't turn back? He spent all day as a tiger and even told his parents what happened, but they just nodded him along because they saw a little boy and he does this type of stuff all the time.
>>77549247
Man, this strip would have gotten him arrested and despised if it came out today.
Every generation says the coming generation is worse but damn, we're at the end of true freedom aren't we?
>>77549384
Honestly anon the more you look into it the more you get the impression that American culture was always uptight about this sort of shit
Watterson just happened to be around during one of our more less restrictive moments
>>77549192
With his clones, calvin is legitimately doing things at diffrent places at the same exact time though.
And all the imagination in the world alone can't successfully move an entire snowman in such a short time.
Winter's coming up, try making a snowman then move it, using just your hands, a good 30 feet yourself in the same condition you made it.
Now make 49 more and do the same for each of them in the same day
>>77549325
>The rest is calvin imagining them.
You know except for when the parents see a lawn full of snowgoons the next morning.
Yes there are some arcs that are simply his imagination, but when there are others that actually affect the real world you are left wondering just how powerful his mind is
>>77549232
Not him, but it's a simple Paint job unless I misunderstood you.
>>77549486
Oh my god.
IT'S A FUCKING COMIC BOOK.
The nigga who wrote this shit didn't put the amount of thought into it as you did. He just wrote a kid having imaginary hi-jinx. he didn't make a real duplicator out of cardboard. the writer of the comic just decided to have the clones mess with the parents. every parent has said it feels like their children are in a million places at once.
but the entire arc, THE ENTIRE THING is just calvin doing whatever the fuck he wants around the house, and blaming all the shit that went down, on his clones.
>>77549553
Not every story needs to be the kind of story where psychics and reality benders and what have you exist. If you ask me, Calvin and Hobbes is the kind where stuff like that doesn't fit. After all, the point with imagination is that everyone has it. Reality bending, not so much.
>>77549553
calvin has on several occasions made a shit ton of fucking snowmen just to fuck with his parents. he's made armies before, that's nothing.
Calvin is not some fucking reality warper, he's a child with an active imagination.
>>77549232
Why? The joke is funny in context, but what would you use the panel for?
>>77547650
it's not prophecy, history is just a loop
>>77548316
That's too original to properly take off.
>>77549256
I kinda doubt it. I don't know if he ever updated his stance, but I know in the past he was pretty vocal about his distaste for comic books.
>>77549486
Its time to stop posting, anon
>>77549595
If that was the case then Calvin would be able to recall events his clones went through rather than mentally gimp himself unless he himself suffers from a severe psycological disorder...And posseses super speed.
>>77549630
And for each of those he himself takes credit for them. Either way, he doesn't make whole hoards. He held no claim to any of the extra snowgoons.
>>77548135
Only thing that bothered me when I got older was that sometimes I'd be worried the mom and dad weren't happy.
Obviously it's just overthinking a newspaper comic strip that consists of three panels at a time, but damn did they deal with a lot of shit from Calvin.
>>77549774
I'm done, I give up
Your autism overpowers anything i could ever do. We were never reading a comic book about a boy and his imaginary tiger. We've been reading a comic about a god all along.
>>77549806
Dad usually got some good kicks out of fucking with Calvin's head, but his mom as far as I know was almost always pissed off in some fashion.
>>77549837
Glad you see the light.
There is a reason Calvin's dialogue is nothing like that of a six year old and instead holds genius insight to societal values.
>>77549909
Well, she did stay at home and raise him, so she put up with his shit a lot more often
>>77549934
Yeah, and that reason is that he's secretly Haruhi fucking Suzumiya, we get it.
>>77549909
She had a lot of really loving moments when Calvin was being a shithead.
One of my favorites.
>>77550041
Calvin hates girls, anon.
>>77550123
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRKv1wgcuLk
>>77548135
This wrecked me.
>>77550201
What's great is that when I was a kid, I thought it was the funniest strip ever despite not even knowing it was reference.
>>77547310
Well yeah, Jim Davis has said multiple times that Garfield was about creating a marketable icon and getting rich
US Acres was the real strip he actually cared about. And then nobody did.
>>77548873
Housewife Susie is a qt
>>77550381
Huh. I feel kinda bad for him. The cash grab took off, but his passion project didn't. That's sad.
Drew some fanart for the occasion.
>>77551069
Adorable
>>77551137
Thanks a lot!
>>77549837
Your autism is literally just as bad.
>>77549568
Thanks anon!
>>77549643
I just like it. I thought it might even make a good poster à la a Roy Lichstenstein print.
>>77549740
Yeah, he said he hated comics but he meant the kind of book that was popular in the 90s that he was parodying. He clearly doesn't hate the very idea of comic art.
He doesn't seem to like the Big 2's stuff, but with Image or another indie he could publish anything he wants.
>>77549806
You have to remember we only really see the parents when Calvin is interacting with them, and even then usually only when he's being a little shit.
The vast majority of time they're just a normal family, but the strip isn't about their daily life. The parents seem pretty happy generally.
I believe there was another strip which attested to the Hobbes being real idea.
One where Calvin took a picture of Hobbes lunging at him from the front door. When his father looks at the photo, he questions how Calvin managed it or something along those lines.
>>77552241
I remember one time Hobbes tied him to a chair and his father then wondered how he managed to do it himself.
I think Waterson sometimes drops stuff like that just to mess with readers.
this is the very first one
>You will never live an idyllic country paradise in a big ass house and spend all your time exploring the woods with your best friends.
>>77552389
So, where DID Calvin first get Hobbes since obviously this didn't actually happen like this. Did his parents just randomly get it for him and he created this back story, or did he just find him lying around?
>>77548135
Fuck, that gets me every time.
>>77552646
This is the canonical way Calvin got Hobbes, although Watterson later said he regretted the initial strips, saying that he should have kept Hobbes' origins a mystery
>>77548129
You know, I honestly think Watterson made the right call, and yet sometime I wonder how great a CH movie could be, if put in the right hands.
Imagine some beautiful animation made to look like those watercolor Sunday pages in which C&H walked in the autumn forest, speaking about the purpose of life and being generally silly.
>>77552879
I can't imagine a movie because that would mean they'd have to be voiced. Something that I could imagine in moving form would have to be more abstract and without narrative.
I always thought a nice way of sticking to Watterson's ideals and the spirit of the comics would be a movie or something where the camera just creatively follows Calvin and Hobbes from a distance through all their amazing environments and imagined areas.
It might follow them whilst they walk through a snowy forest for example, or from an amazing angle and distance, you see them flying through the clouds in a cardboard box, or the little red ufo flying through gas vapors on a massive alien planet, dodging bolts from Alien craft. And essentially, it just jumps from scenario to scenario, but in very clever transitions. You never get to see them up close, or hear them talk, but you can see them in the distance doing their thing.
You know it's them, but you're farther now than when you originally knew them.
>>77549798
What is this actually from?
>>77551069
What type of pen?
>/ic/ can get hostile
>>77548126
Dammit.
>>77548873
>"Let's hope it's a divorce."
Just destroy the universe right now, no panel tops this.
>>77548152
People would be outraged if someone drew a child smoking today
only one i have on my phone but calvin in hobbes is my favorite comic strip hands down
>>77548704
>Hobbes likes Susie
>Hobbes can be seen as Calvin's imaginary friend
>Hobbes represents Calvin's subconscious feelings of affection for Susie?
>>77555134
Huh, that's actually a good idea
>>77547650
>There is literally a Socrates quote that is effectively the same thing
Retards will never understand that history repeats itself.
>be little 7 year old me
>Calvin is my favorite comic of all time
>spend days reading all the books
>one day they get taken away by mom because I was being disruptive at school
>I couldn't stop laughing in class because my dad had read me frog and toad the night before and called toad a party pooper
>the word poop is so hilarious my 7 year old self can't contain the sheer humorous value of the word
>basically end up making Calvin the scapegoat so as to not rat out my Dad
>don't see Calvin for years
>get so desperate for a fix that I end up doing stupid shit I learned from cartoons to try and reverse my parents' standpoint
>try many times hovering over my mom's ear as she was asleep in bed, whispering "bring back Calvin" over and over in some misguided attempt at hypnosis
I got REALLY fucking autistic over those comics.
>>77555383
Your mom's weird.
>>77555210
This is just great
>>77555383
I want this to be real
>>77555233
>Retards will never understand that history repeats itself.
Damn man that is prophetic.
>>77555233
I would say it's definitely worse now than when that strip was made, though.
>>77548059
Thank you high school physics for teaching me about angular velocity so I could get some damn sleep after I first read this.
>>77549806
>mfw reading strips where Calvin's dad admits that he would rather have adopted a dog instead of having a child
>>77548135
>don't die, little raccoon
>it wouldn't be very grateful of you to break my heart
>>77555739
No, you were either a kid then, or a kid hating adult/teen then, which means you either couldn't tell, or have become more jaded.
>>77553240
I'd love a short film, with at least no audible dialogue.
>>77547555
Trips prove realty.
>>77548329
>>77548569
>>77548807
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>>77549119
Don't forget Calvin would often stand on top of Hobbes to reach the mailbox or places he could not get to, including Hobbes getting into the tree house and throwing the rope down to Calvin.
Or how Hobbes tied Calvin to the chair. His dad even commented on how couldn't figure out how he did it himself.
>>77557115
>>77547555
It's honestly eerie how true some of these are.
My personal favorite
>>77548757
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>>77557234
someone send this to anita
>>77557464
Why? She already knows.
>>77557585
Yeah but I want to see the SJWs get triggered by Calvin and Hobbes.
>>77547536
He's as real as Pooh and Tigger etc. Not a problem.
>>77547536
Ah, sohn, donya noh that yer imagination is the mohst pawerful force in reality!?
>>77557636
>Inferior artstyle
>Inferior humor
Please stop shitting up the thread with whoever this nigger is.
>>77557636
Never post that again
>>77558204
>>77558015
>being this buttblasted
>>77548220
We'll have nuked ourselves into dust by then.
>>77547765
John Dobson (of Dobsonian mount telescope fame) started the Sidewalk Astronomers with this philosophy in mind many years earlier.
>>77558259
It's fucking shit, b0ss.
>>77555210
FUCKING HELL, THIS REMINDS ME OF EVERY FUCKING DAY OF MY JOB
Calvin: Look, a dead bird!
Hobbes: It must've hit a window.
Calvin: Isn't it beautiful? It's so delicate. Sighhh... once it's too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is. You realize that nature is ruthless and our existence is very fragile, temporary, and precious. But to go on with your daily affairs, you can't really think about that...which is probably why everyone takes the world for granted and why we act so thoughtlessly. It's very confusing. I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up.
Hobbes: No doubt.
>>77559502
>I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up.
F-fuck
Found the collections at the library when I was 8~ish and tore through them. Pretty good.
My favorite one is the Sunday strip where him and Susie are drawn as adults, they're playing house, and Calvin says "no, this is idiotic, I refuse" because she wants Mr. Bun to be their baby.
Mom got into them too, her favorite was "anybody but your biological mother would have left you to the wolves long ago"
I wonder if the townsfolk ever found Hamster Huey's head.
>>77561477
>>77548873
is the one you're looking for.
>>77555383
That's actually awesome and lowkey adorable
>>77547225
I used to hate his dad for that when I was a kid, but when I got older I ended up loving those and the idea of Calvin's dad messing with him for fun.
>>77549247
Allah Akbar
![jon5[1].gif](https://i.imgur.com/nrsYX3S.gif "jon5[1].gif")
>>77549292
But that 92 get!
Okay, it is kinda idiotic.
>>77546678
I fucking love Calvin and Hobbes. Literally childhood summers defined. I wished I could have the same kind of adventures. Tried going on them, tree climbing and adventuring and shit. Problem was I didn't live in the midwest, I live in SoCal suburbs.
This comic really makes you long for that kind of small-town lifestyle, even though in reality it's probably absolutely shit if you're not white.
>>77547812
Honestly, what else in the papers compared to it ever? I always felt it was in a league of its own.
Occasionally Charlie Brown would have something relatable, but when did those stop getting made?
>>77567555
Charlie Brown finished I think in December of 1999. If not, very early 2000.
>>77547536
Honestly, as a kid reading these comics, that thought never crossed my mind. That was until one day when I was 11 or so, and we had to talk about books during a library period.
I talked about Calvin and Hobbes, and when I began talking about Hobbes, our teacher said "his imaginary tiger right?".
I stopped talking for a moment, then felt the wind get knocked out of me as that sank in. It was like finding out Santa wasn't real too early or missing a birthday.
Couple seconds later I responded with "Y-yeah...".
>>77547352
>Not necessarily. A Lot of great artists were insane.
Peppering Dad-lies with truth makes it all the better.
>>77567593
The final Peanuts published in Sunday newspapers on February 13th, 2000.And Charles Schulz died the night before it went to print.
>>77567658
>Spoiler
Jesus that's some sad stuff.
>>77547858
>but also without being too sappy and childish.
What do you mean? If anything it was just on the cusp of cynical but still had that childish whimsy. Like how a good chunk of the strips are about Calvin imaging goofy things.
>>77567732
>Calvin imaging goofy things
Like killing his school and everybody in it, the little scamp. Calvin "The Terrorist" Lastname they'll call him.
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>>77567555
Generally, the pantheon of "greatest American comic strips" is considered to be Peanuts, Pogo, Krazy Kat, and Calvin and Hobbes.
There are lots of second-tier favorites that often get argued up as well. Most often it's cos they hit a certain cultural critique vibe folks don't associate with comic strips, or they're historically significant. Gasoline Alley, Doonesbury, Bloom County, Little Nemo in Slumberland, The Yellow Kid, Katzenjammer Kids, Little Orphan Annie, Li'l Abner, Dick Tracy, etc.
But when you get right down to it, C + H vs. Peanuts is always going to be the comic strip version of that old Beatles vs. Rolling Stones debate in music. And while Peanuts has the historical importance behind it, for sheer creativity I'd give the edge to Calvin and Hobbes every time.
>>77567658
At least he got to make something good out of his life
>>77552460
>Tfw that was kind of my childhood
I was pretty lucky. Would have been perfect if my mom hadn't eventually gone nuts.
>>77567555
Farside's the only thing that ever topped it in humor for me, but Farside isn't exactly a philosophical comic.
>>77547536
Not really. I never fucking understood imaginary friends so I had no emotional connection to losing one. He was just a fantastical part of the setting.
>>77557403
Do you have the one this based on, where he becomes Tarzan at the end?
>>77568023
>>77567947
Yeah I'd put Far Side somewhere in there as well. It's not particularly insightful, but it's kind of clever in its own way.
As for Peanuts Vs. Calvin and Hobbes, I'd probably side with the latter as opposed to the former. Mainly because the art in Calvin in Hobbes is just drawn so well, and Waterson took full advantage of every milometre of space he had on the newspaper.
However both of them still hold up today, which is the mark of a good product.
>>77548704
That was really common in the first years of the strip. Watterson dialed it down a notch.
>>77548782
There are a couple bad Sunday strips, but damn if I'm going to go look for them.
>>77568082
Ah, nevermind. Found it.
>>77547282
>my friend and I convinced his 15 year old sister that World War Two was just a really big and successful movie/video game franchise
>her granddad was actually at the battle of Beersheba but we convinced her he was a well known actor
>we would discuss it in front of her "Oh yeah, Poland was definitely my favourite character"
>>77568148
anybody have the one where Suzy brings home their son, who's a rabbit
>>77549247
>>77564654
This wouldn't be held against him. This is a perfect example of the love a child should have for the military-industrial complex.
Now, if he was throwing a rock at a tank, that would be a problem. Tanks are only affordable by the side of right and good.
>>77549909
If you listen to Calvin talking about his grandma, she was as bad as him at that age. She deserves it.
>>77568160
>>77562235
is the one you're looking for.
>>77568148
>Wonga Taa
Top kek.
>>77549232
Here. Now I'll teach you.
>click start
>type snip
>>77548126
Fuck.
>>77548757
I love telling people "It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy."
Very few people recognize it.
>>77556429
This is a joke, right?
>>77568360
https://calvinandhobbesagain.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/everyone-wants-a-dachshund/
>>77568420
Damn man.
>>77568457
>That pic
Are we going down some sort of rabbit hole of bad feels?
>>77568495
Do you want to?
>>77546678
How do Calvin and Suzie interact when they get older?
>>77568519
I don't need to feel that feel again anon.It hurt enough first time
>>77568551
>>77568551
It is time.
>>77568360
Nope, there's a strip where his parents where up late one night talking about whether or not they regret having Calcin. Dad said he said they should have gotten a dog
>>77568594
See >>77568420 he already posted it for us.
>>77568607
>>77568527
They get married and have a daughter they nickname Bacon.
>>77568615
I don't get it, what's the point? I get that it's implying her father is diddling her, but beyond that it's kind of shallow. Obviously this wasn't published in the funny pages either. So what's this things full story?
>>77568721
Edgy in an uncomfortable way. The creator did it because he wanted to.
>>77568758
Is that it? Or is there some grander purpose it serves?
>>77568725
>>77568721
It's black humor. It also shows how the girl lives through it and not just the lewds.
>>77568769
these are follow ups to the original comic
the original was pretty good even though it was dark as fuck, these are alright i guess
>>77568804
This you mean?
>>77568769
It's storytelling, it serves no "grander purpose".
It's created to evoke emotions and to hopefully leave you knowing a little more than you did before.
And if not that, then to at least entertain.
Like all stories do.
Don't be weird about it man.
>>77568832
Bloody hell this is unpleasant and dark.
Very well made.
can someone please just post more calvin and hobbes.
>>77568958
>>77568962
I have none. I'm just dumping the last few pages of this.
>>77568983
Final page. Unless someone wants what there is of the newest comic. Feel free to post more Calvin and Hobbes.
>>77568976
>>77568983
>>77568994
Ow ow ow my heart.
These are fucking brutal.
>>77568769
I actually think it does, it draws some attention to a sadly common and horrible problem that people like to pretend does not exist. The characters in the comic are the same way, trying to pretend it's not happening for their own comfort, but the victimized child doesn't have that luxury, just like in real life.
>>77569006
I get that, and the author does a really good job conveying that sense of unease in the house.
However, it's tiresome to just watch the same thing happening over and over again. There's nothing to really root for. Makes the whole thing kind of unsatisfying.
>>77569017
At least she seems to have a sorta quasi-ally in the younger older brother... or at least that's how it comes off to me.
>>77569017
I do agree that the comic series gets repetitive. I also think this kind of bleak storytelling is hard to get invested in, even if I understand what the author is trying to do. But yes, I think this could have just been one or two shorter comics and gotten its point across.
>>77569017
Household abuse
>nothing to root for
>unsatisfying
>tiresome to just watch the same thing happening again and again
