Calvin and Hobbes

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Megaton Punch

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In this thread, we discuss the best comic strip ever made or that ever will be made, and post our favorites.

First topic: why not call it Get Rid Of Slimy Susie? It's more acronymistically accurate, and Susie is basically the only girl Calvin ever interacts with anyway.
 
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A lot of the stuff involving Calvin's parents read very differently to me as an adult. You just know that they had a lot of very painful discussions about what to do with their spastic son and have decided (for now) not to zonk him out with drugs.
 
Sayer of the N-Word said:
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A lot of the stuff involving Calvin's parents read very differently to me as an adult. You just know that they had a lot of very painful discussions about what to do with their spastic son and have decided (for now) not to zonk him out with drugs.
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The ending of the comic with Calvin and Hobbes sledding off into the distance represented Calvin getting put on Adderall.

at least, that's my headcanon
 
Calvin and Hobbes was before my time, but I was exposed to it after my uncle got me the Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat compilation for Christmas. Loved it ever since, got all the compilations besides the complete edition. Anyways, here’s one of my favorites.
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Grand Duke Snowfall said:
On one hand, Spiff is a classic. On the other, man am I a sucker for noir detective stuff. I’m pretty sad that Tracer didn’t show up more often but at the same time I understand why.
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Same here. I seem to recall Watterson saying that the Tracer Bullet strips were a lot harder to draw.

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As much as I enjoyed C&H when I was younger, I soured on it the more I read about Watterson. The constant fights with the syndicates made him come off as a prima donna, and in one of the forwards to the books he compares himself to Charles Schultz, which... fuck you, Charles Schultz is God. Schultz drew for almost 50 years every single day until his physically couldn't anymore from cancer, you quit when you couldn't do things your way. You're not worthy to hold his pencil.

Also, does anyone else think that Calvin's parents are kind of shit? They have next to no interactions with him except to yell at him to get up, eat dinner, do your homework, or go to bed. He's six, play with your goddamn kid! He acts out because he wants attention, and he learned that causing chaos is how to get it. I don't buy the ADHD diagnosis.
 
Wallace said:
Also, does anyone else think that Calvin's parents are kind of shit? They have next to no interactions with him except to yell at him to get up, eat dinner, do your homework, or go to bed. He's six, play with your goddamn kid!
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Calvin's dad made time for teaching and playing in between working a full-time job to support his family.
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Wallace said:
The constant fights with the syndicates made him come off as a prima donna
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After Garfield merchandising absolutely blew up, the syndicates had to have been relentless with Watterson, who refused to merchandise the kid character and cuddly tiger. It was money being left on the table when Watterson was a supreme autist who just wanted to make his comics and leave it at that.

For whatever it's worth, in "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", he dedicates part of the introduction to that whole affair:​
"I didn't think greeting cards, T-shirts, or plush dolls fit with the spirit or message of my comic strip,
and I didn't like the idea of using this hard-won precious job to peddle a bunch of trinkets.
I wanted to draw cartoons, not run an empire . . . All I can say is,
I worked too long to get this job, and worked too hard once I got it, to let other people run
away with my creation once it became successful."​
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After his sabbatical, he asked for a half page for the Sunday comic.​

Universal supported me and sold the strip as a half-page feature, but newspaper editors were livid that I would presume to attach conditions to the sale of my work. Coming on the heels of my extended vacation, the new Sunday format demands left me open to the indictment of being an outrageously pampered egotist. I won't deny the charge, but the new format presented all sorts of new creative opportunities and challenges, and I doubled my efforts to make the Sunday strips special.​
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For me, I put Watterson solidly in the camp of "he behaves like a rockstar, but he's absolutely earned the right".
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