Comments on: Bill Watterson is still alive

By: brosometal

brosometal — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:07:48 +0000

Here’s a bit more for those who would want to read it.

http://www.andrewsmcmeel.com/calvinandhobbes/interview.html

By: slightlyaboveaverage

slightlyaboveaverage — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:44:36 +0000

…and I’ll agree to disagree with you over BC.
BC still takes a few relevant shots at some deserving targets, and there aren’t too many strips that don’t apologize for their Christian faith. BC takes a stand there also.
Now: If you put Peanuts (blaspheme!) on a list then you can’t stop there.
Family Circus, anyone?

By: lwoolsey

lwoolsey — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:43:37 +0000

I love Peanuts. But, really, when was the last time it was funny?

By: chainsaw

chainsaw — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:51:07 +0000

I registered just so I could call your swipe at Peanuts what it is: sacrilege.

By: lwoolsey

lwoolsey — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:33:34 +0000

However much I miss Calvin & Hobbes, Watterson did the right thing. Just like Larson did with The Far Side. It would have been much sadder to see such a great cartoon devolve into B.C. or Haggar the Horrible.

Peanuts anyone?

By: jasnos

jasnos — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:15:00 +0000

It’s too bad that there are so many Calvin urinating stickers. I seem to remember an idiot trying to put a joint into the kid’s mouth, as well.

It was a good strip — Calvin’s parents seemed like good folks.

Somebody yelled, “Hey, Dilbert!” the other day, which reminded me that Dilbert is a good cartoon. Crankshaft is good, too. Good old Crankshaft.

By: jaynie59

jaynie59 — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:02:14 +0000

I never understood Calvin and Hobbs. But I never let it bother me because I had already gone through the I-don’t-get-Saturday-Night-Live-but-have-to-fake-it-so-I’m-not-ostracized-in-high-school bull crap.

I graduated from high school. Some people never do.

By: barackborat

barackborat — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:32:25 +0000

I am very confuse — Gibbsy is show me the minor comic strip Calvin Hobbes, and this is make no sense. http://calvinwithouthobbes.tumblr.com/

By: slightlyaboveaverage

slightlyaboveaverage — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:17:36 +0000

Here ya go, fallon:
Billy and the Boingers (the artists formerly known as Deathtongue)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgQng5SMd68

Opus played ‘heavy metal’ (a tuba) and Bill the Cat would boing his tongue.
Good times.

By: mallard

mallard — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:37:02 +0000

I like Arlo & Janis also. (damn auto-type)

By: fallon1977

fallon1977 — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:36:32 +0000

I like “Pearls Before Swine” and I really used to like “Get Fuzzy” when it was just a psycho cat and a sweet dumb dog, now it has become too politically motivated. The psycho cat is now a Republican, of course.

Bloom County was really funny for a while. The characters Bill the Cat and Opus were money. Who can forget Opus in rock star mode singing “Every leg you break, every cake you bake, every leaf you rake…” And then, Um Opus, Sting would like a word with you. Too funny.

I miss Calvin and Hobbes, too, but I absolutely HATE peeing Calvin decals…

By: mallard

mallard — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:03:29 +0000

Garry Trudeau jumped the shark awhile ago. The great skewer of presidents from Nixon to GW Bush suddenly can’t find anything to rip Obama about. After one year, he still hasn’t goofed on The One. He hasn’t even created an icon for Obama.

I like Bizzarro and Zits and Carlos & Janis and that’s about it.

I do miss Calvin & Hobbes.

By: srvdisciple

srvdisciple — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:43:51 +0000

But he’s happy about the “Calvin peeing on liberals” sticker, right?

By: slightlyaboveaverage

slightlyaboveaverage — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:28:03 +0000

Point well-made with Bloom County. In the 80′s it was great, and I still have several of the anthologies from those days. I still giggle about a “Billy and the Boingers” sticker that I snuck in to some other folk’s college photos. Although Breathed’s art continued to become quite impressive, there were too many “Shut Up and Sing,” strips. Maybe I just got older.
I am now seeing the second wave of children in our home ‘discovering’ my Calvin & Hobbes books from back in the day. That is a strong testament to Watterson’s art, that in the days of 24-hour cartoon channels and endless exposure to the Spongebobs being offered children are still enjoying Calvin’s imagination.
Garry Trudeau has an outstanding talent, but his ideological lecturing turned me away long ago.
The same with Pirarro’s “Bizarro.” Great talent, but wasted on extreme leftist elitism.
My favorite these days: “Pearls Before Swine” http://stephanpastis.wordpress.com/
and “Zits” http://www.arcamax.com/zits