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Calvin & Hobbes on a Stamp

jabberjaw — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:59:15 -0800

Calvin & Hobbes will be put on a U.S. postage stamp, honoring "Sunday Funnies," along with Garfield, Beetle Bailey, Dennis the Menace, and Archie. Although there has been no end to the homages and unlicensed materials regarding his beloved characters, creator Bill Watterson, "the only cartoonist who resented the popularity of his own strip," has expressed his disapproval of third-party appropriation in detail:

A wordy, multiple-panel strip with extended conversation and developed personalities does not condense to a coffee mug illustration without great violation to the strip's spirit. The subtleties of a multi-dimensional strip are sacrificed for the one-dimensional needs of the product.

Even if Watterson hasn't approved, nothing in the USPS committee's selection criteria requires artist approval. Of course, an obligatory Calvin & Hobbes comic archive, and, it being wintertime and all, an ancient angelfire site. And, previously, Watterson rarities, and other Calvin & Hobbes love.

Blogging the Philosophers

anotherpanacea — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:05:36 -0800

The Guardian's How to Believe series summarizes some great philosophical works in the reversed-date format we all know and love. Giles Frasier evaluates the lasting value of Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals, Julian Baggini tells us what to believe about Hume's critique of religion, Mary Midgeley begrudgingly accepts the majestic contributions of Hobbes' Leviathan, and Simon Critchley throws himself into the hermeneutic circle of Heidegger's Being and Time. Perhaps most entertaining are the responses to comments. Hurf Durf Über Alles!

Well what do you want? It's just an FPP!

Navelgazer — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:46:15 -0800

Calvin. Hobbes. Calvin and Hobbes. John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes. Calvin and Hobbes and Ten Pounds of Bullshit. Calvin and Durden. Nash and Hobbes. Calvin and Hobbes and School Controversies. Calvin and John Calvin and Hobbes and Thomas Hobbes and Republicans. Calvin and Hobbes and Childhood.

Watterson on Schultz

dismas — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:09:52 -0800

Bill Watterson comments on Peanuts as part of a review for David Michaelis's new biography of Charles Schultz. This isn't the first time Watterson has waxed poetic on the subject of Peanuts, which he often cited as an inspiration for his own Calvin and Hobbes. via Fark .

Animated Children's Philosophers

graventy — Thu, 17 May 2007 16:48:03 -0800

The Animated Calvin & Hobbes. A fantastic student project. via

Calvin and Hobbes

afu — Fri, 26 May 2006 13:49:06 -0800

Calvin and Hobbes

A Snowy Tribute to Calvin and Hobbes

lacus — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:40:01 -0800

A Snowy Tribute to Calvin and Hobbes

The Return of Hobbes

cohappy — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:47:44 -0800

A little dated, but too good to pass up. Deconstructing Fight Club, Watterson-style.

Transmogrify

jonson — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 20:31:18 -0800

The Calvin & Hobbes Extensive Strip Search (C.H.E.S.S.) is a wonderfully obsessive database of every Watterson strip indexed by keyword & description, with each strip scanned, as well as a book & page # listing of which collection the stip appears in (and original newspaper publication date). It's wildly in violation of copywrite, but it's also very cool. and the geek in me wonders how they do the cool right-mousebutton trick when you click on the strips

Where's Bill?

pardonyou? — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 11:32:18 -0800

If you can offer the world a strip like Calvin and Hobbes, don't you have a responsibility to keep working? The Cleveland Scene travels to Chagrin Falls, Ohio, trying to track down its most famous (and famously reclusive) resident, Calvin and Hobbes author Bill Watterson. Along the way, the reporter contemplates micturating Calvins, burning paintings, the cost of hewing to one's principles, and the utter vacuity of Jim Davis's soul. In the end, there's even a brief encounter with a man who may or may not have once made millions happy by drawing a six-year-old boy and his stuffed tiger.

o2b — Thu, 23 Aug 2001 09:09:05 -0800

New Calvin and Hobbes book! "Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995" will reprint the 35 sunday strips that are being featured at the 2001 Festival Of Cartoon Art at the Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library. While not really a 'new' book, it will include "an essay by Mr. Watterson about his work on the strip, plus his comments on each of the strips in the display." This is a treat for fans because Mr. Watterson is an extremely private individual, and has given no interviews or produced any new work since Calvin and Hobbes left us, December 31, 1995.