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Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

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Post by the_af »

ryantgtg wrote: post #28
roughly wrote: post #19

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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…

I don't get the sense that Calvin's parents don't like him. He is a force of nature and he overwhelms them, but they don't dislike him.

Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

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Post by [deleted] »

ryantgtg wrote: post #28
roughly wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

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Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

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Post by abledon »

treesrule wrote: post #9
abledon wrote: post #7

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I'd love to hear what he has to say about modern life, esp about social media

I think he specifically does not want you to know what he thinks about these things.

i know, thats why i want to know so bad !

Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

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Post by roughly »

shagie wrote: post #24
roughly wrote: post #19

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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...

That's a great tribute. The speech he derived it from, a few links down: https://web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/C-H-speech.html

Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

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Post by throwawayboise »

chmod600 wrote: post #17
treesrule wrote: post #9

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I think he specifically does not want you to know what he thinks about these things.

Is it really a secret? Calvin and Hobbes contains a ton of relevant commentary. Just the amount of time Calvin spends outside tells you something. He probably would leave it as observation rather than presciption, like most humorists.

Kids spending a lot of time outside was quite normal in the 1980s. There wasn't much to do inside. Even more so when Watterson was himself a child, which is probably what inspired a lot of his cartoons.

Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

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Post by schwank »

ryantgtg wrote: post #28
roughly wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Our 5yo daughter loves looking through our old paperback versions, but we generally won't read them to her yet as the story and comedy is way over her head in most cases. She can grow up reading them over time as I did daily in the paper growing up.

One day we'll let her read our first edition color hardcover boxed set. But she probably should start acting a little less like Calvin first.

Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

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Post by avalys »

ryantgtg wrote: post #28
roughly wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

There are plenty of C&H strips that show his parents love him. This one comes to mind, but there are many others: https://i.redd.it/wgwm23u9k4sx.png

Kids are not stupid and you don't need to insulate them from everything that isn't 100% happy, fluffy and wonderful. As a former kid who had loving parents and loved C&H, the only message I remember taking from the strip in this regard was that parents are people too and that things I do might annoy them.

Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

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Post by eastbayjake »

tracerbulletx wrote: post #29
Mediterraneo10 wrote: post #16

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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.

If only someone would build a Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine where someone could look for "Modern Art" references in the text: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1990/11/02
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