My favorite from recent times is https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2015/08/20
"Bill Hicks on advertising"
Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine
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Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine
#22Nice idea! Scripts and comics didn't match for me though.
I noticed some weird results too. The first thing I searched was “dead bird”[1]. There are 2 results, one of which is correct, but the script and descriptions are flipped. The first result has the script for the correct strip but links to a different script which matches the description, and vice versa for the other result.
[1] http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/search.p...
Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine
#23Read this series (click next a few times to see them all): https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/05/05 It looks like it was written yesterday, but it's 30 years old.
Watterson could offer some biting social commentary, but towards the end of C&H's run he had also become a sort of curmudgeonly old man. For example, there are strips where he depicts modern art as being just as bunch of phoneys trying to hoodwink one another, but I know a few abstract artists personally and they are very sincere about the work they are creating (primarily for themselves, to scratch an inner itch), e…
I know people who write like this[0] and are very sincere about their writing. One can be sincere about anything, even meaningless pretension.
Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine
#24Read this series (click next a few times to see them all): https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/05/05 It looks like it was written yesterday, but it's 30 years old.
I grew up on Calvin and Hobbes, but in retrospect it's not terribly surprising Bill Watterson eventually decided to fuck off into the woods.
Zen Pencils on Bill Watterson (on advertising) - https://zenpencils.tumblr.com/post/59432017577/bill-watterso...
And the commentary - https://www.zenpencils.com/comic/128-bill-watterson-a-cartoo...
Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Watterson could offer some biting social commentary, but towards the end of C&H's run he had also become a sort of curmudgeonly old man. For example, there are strips where he depicts modern art as being just as bunch of phoneys trying to hoodwink one another, but I know a few abstract artists personally and they are very sincere about the work they are creating (primarily for themselves, to scratch an inner itch), e…
I know people who write like this[0] and are very sincere about their writing. One can be sincere about anything, even meaningless pretension. [0] https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/02/11
Great comic. It seems this way of writing has proliferated massively, even among younger (non-academic) groups like high-school students.
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#26I learned so many words reading Calvin and Hobbes as a kid. Just off the top of my head: - "The pernicious poem place." - "Demonstrates defenestration." - The "salubrious" beats. - "Mainstream commercial nihilism can't be trusted?"
"'Fraid not, kiddo."
Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Watterson could offer some biting social commentary, but towards the end of C&H's run he had also become a sort of curmudgeonly old man. For example, there are strips where he depicts modern art as being just as bunch of phoneys trying to hoodwink one another, but I know a few abstract artists personally and they are very sincere about the work they are creating (primarily for themselves, to scratch an inner itch), e…
I know people who write like this[0] and are very sincere about their writing. One can be sincere about anything, even meaningless pretension. [0] https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/02/11
Yeah, I consider complaining about academic writing like this to be just as curmudgeonly. I remember when I first got access to a good university library and could read all the criticism written about books and authors I had read – knowing that people like Watterson, Gene Wolfe, or Victor Davis Hanson had tarred it – and I found the vast majority to actually be valid and insightful, giving me an expanded appreciation of the book or an understanding of its place in the greater social discourse.
Yes, literary criticism often focuses on highly specialized concerns and not everyone is interested in e.g. queer perspectives, but can't we be happy that it exists for those who do want to read it?
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#28Read this series (click next a few times to see them all): https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/05/05 It looks like it was written yesterday, but it's 30 years old.
I grew up on Calvin and Hobbes, but in retrospect it's not terribly surprising Bill Watterson eventually decided to fuck off into the woods.
My wife and I aren’t having the greatest time reading them to our toddler (she’s probably too young for them, but she says she really likes them). Calvin’s parents don’t like him! I don’t like exposing her to parents who are resentful toward their kid.
Also, shortly after he retired Bill Watterson ate at my dad’s restaurant. My dad recognized his name on the check, and told him how much of a fan I was. Bill then drew Calvin on a napkin for me. And... I can’t find that sketch! Each time I visit my parents I spend half the visit digging through boxes for it.
Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine
#29Read this series (click next a few times to see them all): https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/05/05 It looks like it was written yesterday, but it's 30 years old.
Watterson could offer some biting social commentary, but towards the end of C&H's run he had also become a sort of curmudgeonly old man. For example, there are strips where he depicts modern art as being just as bunch of phoneys trying to hoodwink one another, but I know a few abstract artists personally and they are very sincere about the work they are creating (primarily for themselves, to scratch an inner itch), e…
Do you have an example of that? It's a pretty niche topic to decide he was being curmudgeonly. A lot of people think that about modern art whether they're wrong or not they're usually pretty normal people.
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#30I've been a lifelong fan of Calvin & Hobbes, and I have all of the books, but I both don't have the time to revisit them, or when I do, I binge way too much.
Is there any way to get a personal, daily comic via RSS or similar that starts from the very beginning, without having to wait for one of the syndication sites like gocomics to wrap around back to the beginning?