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Just ordered it - $95 + shipping on Amazon.com

Three hardcover bound copies in a box set - every cartoon...

this is so gonna rock. It's been so long since I've seen some of them.

RB

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There's a 10th anniversary edition coming out - one giant book with ALL the cartoons in it -

a great 4 page interview over at MSNBC.com - the artist was a recluse of sorts who fought ALL marketing and didn't return Speilberg's calls in 1988. The stickers you see on backs of trucks with Calvin peeing on something are rip offs. It does now occur to me you never saw a live cartoon, stuffed figure or anything. Hardly any pictures of Bill Watterson at all - and he's 47 now, so he was young when he did those.

In my honest opinion (though I won't create a poll for it), I believe it's the greatest comic strip America has ever produced.

I'm buying this book...and I"m gonna laugh my ass off for a month at Spaceman Spiff....

RB

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"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us" - My Senior Quote.

Yes, I'm a dork.

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I made a thread on it a week ago, too, and ordered the collection that night from Overstock.com. Can't wait!

Thanks for the link on the story. As it says at the end, *sigh*.

And I hope Susie Derkins is kicking the world's ass.

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I hate to say it, but I could see her becoming a lesbian - [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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There's a 10th anniversary edition coming out - one giant book with ALL the cartoons in it -

a great 4 page interview over at MSNBC.com - the artist was a recluse of sorts who fought ALL marketing and didn't return Speilberg's calls in 1988. The stickers you see on backs of trucks with Calvin peeing on something are rip offs. It does now occur to me you never saw a live cartoon, stuffed figure or anything. Hardly any pictures of Bill Watterson at all - and he's 47 now, so he was young when he did those.

In my honest opinion (though I won't create a poll for it), I believe it's the greatest comic strip America has ever produced.

I'm buying this book...and I"m gonna laugh my ass off for a month at Spaceman Spiff....

RB

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"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us" - My Senior Quote.

Yes, I'm a dork.

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I honestly think that is one of the best quotes of all time, comic book or not. I'm actually surprised that the quote never really became famous because it's the truth.
Like everyone else, C & H is #1, The Far Side is 2nd. Once both stopped, I stopped reading the comics. Seems like nothing else has even come close since.

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Calvin and Hobbes is the [censored]. No other comic comes close.

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Family Circus #1, Cathy #2. (Tough leaving Sally Forth out of the top 2)

-ptmusic

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Awesome, I was just paging through a Calvin and Hobbes book today, now I know what I need to buy with this amazon GC I have sitting in my inbox.

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Whenever I look at the final cartoon, I get sad. It was a great choice as a sendoff.

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Family Circus is number one. Everything else is very very far behind.

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