Calvin and Hobbes thread?
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Sorry, had to post this from my phone so I could do bumps.
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What would you like to talk about?
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Here's the Doonsebury guy saying some boring stuff.
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Melissa is Bill Watterson's wife.
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You guys ready for THE SECRET ORIGIN OF HOBBES?
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I was thinking more Story Time. I always do the initial post on my cell phone for Story times so the story is bumpable. That's also why I deleted the first thread (did over wifi instead of LTE).
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I never really appreciated his art style until I tried to emulate it. Bill has a real economy of lines that it hard to replicate.
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Everybody who's played Sim City has done this at least once in their life.
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Yeah, he has a distinctive are style. And remember, this is all first year his later stuff is more impressive.
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Grumble. Captcha keeps on asking for milshakes but showing frothy drinks like cappucino's. I know the cappucino's aren't milkshakes but google doesn't.
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And here we have the secret origin of Suzy Derkins.
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This top comic is one of my favorites. Geeze mom, aren't you paying attention?
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You should have posted that pic as a reply to this comic.
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Who do pirates kiss? Obviously pirates dont' kiss but do other things.
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This is all from that one collection right? i only have that one out of all of collections, would really like to get the rest tho.
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This is from the first year of the strips, conveniently called "Calvin and Hobbes" The whole Charlie Brown thread made me nostalgic about comic strip Sundays (When a kind anon would post a year of Peanut comics) so I'm going to try and do the same thing with Calvin over the next 9 weeks. Or... you know get bored. One of those two things.
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Top row should be a 4chan banner.
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LOL, it truly should.
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I always wondered if his Mom was actually a bad chef or if Calvin was just an ass.
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This is really impressive. Did they incorporate the images from a dancing page into the animation?
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Kids from Age 3 to about ~7 become really really picky eaters. It wouldn't surprise me if Calvin was just over-exaggerating like he tends to do over his pickiness.
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Stupid Captcha's, its making me solve multiple per images!
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Got excited a bit because I thought this was going to be the secret origin of Rosayln the Babysitter. Unfortunately she comes in later.
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I generally have contempt for childhood nostalgia, but Calvin and Hobbes is the exception. It captures both the good and bad. The heights of wonders and the lows of feeling helpless.
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>tfw no man's sky is going to be the spaceman spiff game we've all wanted for years
I know most anons are already calling it underwhelming, but if I can have my spaceman spiff experience I'll be more than happy.
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I learned so many words from this comic strip.
I was wondering why this thread was deleted
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>I was wondering why this thread was deleted
But it's not?
The strip didn't get really, really good until 90-95
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There was an identical thread to this like a half hour ago that was deleted after a few posts.
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I explained it earlier, but when I do storytimes I usually post the op from my Cell phone so I can bump my own threads. Accidently made the post over wifi instead of LTE so i deleted and reposted.
Spoilered for /ss/
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The less words a C&H strip has, the better it is.
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4chan's favorite C&H strip
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I'm sort of storytimeing the first year of the Calvin and Hobbes strip, it might be a good idea to wait to post the later strips until the first year is finished. I'm roughly half way done.
/co/ in a nutshell.
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That fake comic has better art than most actual comics getting released at the time. This was like 94, what wacky bullshit were Superman and Spiderman getting into at the time?
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I think maybe Superman had just come back from the dead and maybe the Clone Saga for Spider-Man.
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Just compare these 2 sunday strips and see just how much Watterson developed his artstyle and panel layout. No one has even attempted to do as much as Watterson did with so little space. I can't even imagine formatting something like this.
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Like I said, Wacky bullshit. /co/ tends to not like Watterson for his disdain for the comics industry.
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:'^((((((((((((((((( le sadz
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>that top strip
WHAT DID YOU DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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>mfw it actually is Krakow
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This is the strip of my birthday.
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That's really Miller.
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This is the Secret Origin of Rosalyn. I didn't think she showed up until the 2nd year.
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Watterson got a lot of angry letters for the top one
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LOL, I can understand why but he's not wrong. Daschunds are cheaper...
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I remember going out to buy cigs for my mom all the time. Back then, no one cared.
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The anti-smoking movement has been so successful that I don't think people realise just how ubiquitous smoking was. Everyone did it, everyone had cigarettes and cigars, kids would buy smokes for their parents. Smoking was everywhere!
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Still don't know what a Crawdad is.
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Seriously? It's a shellfish like a small lobster
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Crawdad is one of those funny words like Chatanooga that's inherently funny, but I've never bothered to learn where that place is or what it means because you don't need to know the actual meaning of the word for it to work.
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So was Hobbes Real? or was he just an overly active part of Calvin's imagination.I want to believe that he is
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There are plenty of times where the stuffed toy is lost and everyone other then calvin sees him as a stuffed toy. ObviouslyHobbes is an elder god abomination that can only be seen by Calvin, sort of like the plot from mannequin, only more evil!
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And that's the first year of Calvin and Hobbes. The Sunday strips aren't as dynamic as they will become but the important parts are there. Suzie, Rosalyn the baby-sitter, etc.
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Watterson said that the nature of Hobbes's existence didn't matter to him. To Calvin, he was his tiger friend. To everyone else, it was a toy. Both perspectives were equally valid to the people who held them.
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I'll try to do the 2nd year next week, though no promises. And despite doing the strip for 10 years there are only 9 books because Watterson took a long (9 month) hiatus mid-way.
That was great. I always pretend to like Calvin and Hobbs but I actually never read more than a few strips before today. Now I can stop pretending and just like it.
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Good for you, anon.
Well, this was a good start to my day: revisiting my childhood. Thank you, OP.
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Someone should edit this, maybe change the signature too.
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fuckin poorfags
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I suggest getting 4chanX extension and in the settings changing the Recaptcha to v1. Then you only have to type a few numbers each time.
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It looks cool but I'm skeptical. Seems to be as wide as a lake but as deep as a puddle. I haven't researched it a whole lot, but from what I've seen it looks mostly like just exploration.
>>84560867
Oh my God, I've never seen this one before!
What a swell guy, this OP, thank for the read.
http://imgur.com/LxOSB1A
>>84566616where's the rest?
http://i.imgur.com/oFGNWqk.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/LHbRKhW.jpg
I love the facial expressions Bill uses, always makes me laugh harder than the words.
What's the best big book of all the comic strips? I've hardly ever read these but the few I have, I really like.
Or is there just one book of them?
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There's a 3 volume collection of every strip, in chronological order, that I own which is called "the complete calvin and hobbes". It can be had on amazon for about $60. The old collections like the Essential C&H, indispensable etc were missing multiple strips and had them out of chronological order. Of course, you could find the entire collection on the internet as well.
