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Happy Birthday, Bill Watterson!
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One of my favorite comic writers and artists of all time. We had so many Collections of C&H.
The series was so much better than it has any right to be. He switches so perfectly between cartoonish and realistic, funny and serious.
Also, I'm always freaked out by how similar he looks to Calvin's dad whenever I see his photos.
The series was so much better than it has any right to be. He switches so perfectly between cartoonish and realistic, funny and serious.
Also, I'm always freaked out by how similar he looks to Calvin's dad whenever I see his photos.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
GOAT comic writer, but man, I feel terrible for feeling bitter toward him sometimes. I think of all the years we could have been getting Calvin and Hobbes since he retired and just wonder, "Why?" Just me being selfish, I guess. What we got was golden.
Amazing stuff that stands the test of time.
Amazing stuff that stands the test of time.
VendettaRed07
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TheDinoman
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Guy's a badass. Always loved reading this Calvin and Hobbes book we had as a kid.
Gordon Shumway
Banned
Trump ruined this for me..😐
I am so sorry.
andthebeatgoeson
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TheGreatDirector
Banned
One of the best comic strips and pieces of art in pop culture.
Poor Richard Thompson
Calvin and Hobbes was absolutely formative for me. Still love the giant collection I have, probably my favourite gift ever
andthebeatgoeson
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Transistor
Banned
Best comic strip artist of all time. And the lengths he went to to protect the integrity of his creations shows that C&H was much more than a money maker, it was something much more personal. I look forward to the day I can hand down all of my books to my daughter so she can read them for the first time.
Best comic strip ever. Hell best cartoon anything ever. I only wish he were a more public person, is love to hear him chat on podcasts or write for some magazine or whatever. I get why he stopped doing C&H and respect the fact that he wants to be left alone but man it's a huge shame.
sixteen-bit
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happy birthday
Alex_Mexico
Member
How come?
Don't go down that hole
Alex_Mexico
Member
What did Trump ever do to ruin my favorite comic strip of all time? Did he retweeted a modified C&H strip that was racist as fuck? What the hell happened?
NameGenerated
Who paid you to grab Dr. Pavel?
Dude needs to learn about the 3-panel rule.
Switch Back 9
a lot of my threads involve me fucking up somehow. Perhaps I'm a moron?
Him and Gary Larson fundamentally shaped who I am as a human being. Grew up learning to read Calvin & Hobbes and The Far Side.
Got this done last year.
Got this done last year.
Hickbilly Deluxe
Banned
As long as Bill is alive, it will never happen. He fought tooth and nail to have complete control over C&H, and has stated many many times that he will never commercialize it beyond the collections books. If you see shirts or stickers with Calvin, none of it was done with his permission. He has turned down many offers from other well known and respected artists to take over the strip. He has something special in C&H, and he wont risk ruining it. And I respect him for that. He didnt want it to turn into another Dennis the Menace situation, so he quit once he felt it was the right time and moved off to live a private life as one of the GOATs.
Do I dare ask what this is?
People started pasting Trump's face on Calvin in some strips, where Calvin was on the assholish side. There was a thread on it earlier. Some people REALLY didn't like the association.
Valjean Lafitte
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Secret Fawful
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Wow, Bill looks like one of his own characters.
Valjean Lafitte
Banned
An idiotic rule that I believe someone in one of GAF's funny pics threads made up, which states that comic strips should be three panels or less. Basically, if a strip doesn't deliver the funny almost immediately, it's not worth their time. Dilbert would be the ideal comic for these people if Scott Adams wasn't considered persona non grata around these parts.
ElectricBlanketFire
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The best of all time.
E-Cat
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But Sunday strip C&H are the best C&H.
Jack Scofield
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This is actually the first time I've ever seen a picture of Bill Watterson. This is not how I imaged him at all. He actually looks very similar to Calvin's father. I wonder if that was intentional.
Valjean Lafitte
Banned
Agreed. I still my local newspaper's copy of the last strip saved somewhere.
E-Cat
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Calvin's father is modeled after his own father; so by extension, yeah.
Hickbilly Deluxe
Banned
What the hell did Adams do to deserve that?
Also, Watterson would take one look at that three panel rule, politely tell you to get bent, and publish elsewhere. The man was such a force in the industry that newspapers would essentially let him do his sunday panels however he wanted every week. Those that didnt cave immediately did so later on.
Jon Arbuckle
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So formative to my philosophy. I would love to hang out with Watterson for a few hours and just chat about life. I have a feeling it would be pretty fun and very eye opening.
It's just a shame that he burned out on Calvin and Hobbes so quickly, but given the insane amount of work and soul he put into it I can totally see why he did.
It's just a shame that he burned out on Calvin and Hobbes so quickly, but given the insane amount of work and soul he put into it I can totally see why he did.
He spends his time complaining about how feminists and SJWs are ruining the world, so he's not very popular amongst such individuals.
Valjean Lafitte
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I'll let someone else answer that, because I don't want to get into it. Suffice to say the most recent thread about Scott Adams blog consisted of people proclaiming that Adams should get fucked and that Dilbert was ruined for them. ModBot locked the thread early, calling Adams an MRA racist. Good times.
And yeah, unlike many newspaper cartoonists today, Watterson knew how to be funny and tell a story at the same time. C&H was sort of like a less cartoony Peanuts in that way.
Septimus Prime
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Also, if you read his Sunday strips, he does deliver funny by the second panel. It's always a funny joke that has little consequence to the rest of the strip (in case it gets removed by the editor for space).
Hickbilly Deluxe
Banned
Ah, well that would explain that then. I never got much into the mind behind Dilbert, so I never would have known.
Yah, his little one off jokes are always a great way to start off the strip. Although I dont think they got edited out very often, the man had a lot of control over the entire process.
I think that came from vgcats threads. Where the guy couldn't tell a concise joke to save his life, and someone discovered that if you just cut out almost all the panels it became much better.
Septimus Prime
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I'm not sure it ever was edited out, but I remember reading somewhere where he said that's why he did it. He started it in the comic's early days, when he was still using mostly uniform panels on his Sunday strips. Later, when the strip gained in popularity, he was more free to experiment with his paneling, but he still kept that little throwaway joke in those strips.
thelatestmodel
Junior, please.
You can't even compare Calvin & Hobbes to other comic strips. It's not even fair, it's in a league of its own.
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