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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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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.

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Agree 100%.

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Yeah it is probably the best strip of all time, Far Side being my close second. I have most of his books already, stuff like The Essential Sunday Collection, and various other ones. I use to color the strips in the books when I was younger. It was so funny when I was kid, and the best part is, when I read it now, it is still funny, but in a different way. I was actually quite sad when he said he was stopping the strip.

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Bill, not Sam.

I love Calvin and Hobbes.

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Calvin and Hobbes is number one, Far Side is number 2. Everything else is very very far behind.

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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.

RB

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Life in Hell is my favorite.

"Do you have any Tshirts with Calvin peeing on Hobbes?"

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Definitely my vote for best of all time. The guy, at age 28 had more imagination than me at age 10. I hadn't even gotten into cards yet.

It's amazing that Bill Watterson gave up all the EV of future products, etc. just to live comfortably with few people knowing who he is.

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Bill Watterson

Sam is the actor from Law and Order - I'm a numbnut

I fixed it in the original post.

RB

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Calvin and Hobbes is number one, Far Side is number 2. Everything else is very very far behind.

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Correct.

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Calvin and Hobbes is number one, Far Side is number 2. Everything else is very very far behind.

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I clicked your post thinking you were a gimmick account. In any case it's too late for one now.

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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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an excellent comic. the best. i own so many of the books. at one time i had them all but they might have released some special edition or something. it's been a while.

i remember when i got into it. i was in like 4th grade maybe, and they had them in my classroom's bookcase. i went out and bought one, i still remember my first book, "Weirdos from another planet", then "Yukon Ho" and so on..

how good

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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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you mean this?

http://calvinethobbes.free.fr/images/lastcalvin.gif

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$95??? DAMN!!!

You had me sold on this thing, until you said, "$95."

All that being said, I'll probably pick up a C+H book next time I'm in a bookstore, if they still stock old comic strip books.

Dilbert is the only one I would dare to mention in the same breath as C+H and FS, and Dilbert would be way in back of those two.

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$95??? DAMN!!!

You had me sold on this thing, until you said, "$95."

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$85 + $1.50 shipping at Overstock.com

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this thread got me googling and i found this transcript of bill wattersons commencement speach he delivered to Kenyon college, i found it pretty interesting.

http://home3.inet.tele.dk/stadil/spe_kc.htm

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this thread got me googling and i found this transcript of bill wattersons commencement speach he delivered to Kenyon college, i found it pretty interesting.

http://home3.inet.tele.dk/stadil/spe_kc.htm

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hot.

man, i love reading interesting things written by people i like.

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Calvin and Hobbes is number one, Far Side is number 2. Everything else is very very far behind.

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No, Calvin and Hobbes is number one and the Far Side is awesome, but Bloom County isn't that far behind.

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Yeah it is probably the best strip of all time

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I was actually quite sad when he said he was stopping the strip.

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Me too

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I hate to say it, but I could see her becoming a lesbian

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Me too, actually. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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i agree, it was great. so great that i in fact considered calvin for my avatar. it was my fav. book when i was a kid and i have all the books ever done

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

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Our copy just came (from Amazon) yesterday.. You won't be disappointed, but these things weigh a ton. Great quality though..

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I agree C&H is easily first, and Far Side probably second, but I think it misses a lot to mention the greatest strips ever without mentioning the Peanuts. The problem is, it's outdated now -- it's almost like looking at Sally Forth or something, it just doesn't seem to gel today.

I think in a lot of ways, C&H would never have happened without the Peanuts.

Calvin and Hobbes was the most amazing strip I've ever seen, anyways. And Watterson is a strange and amazing guy - conservative estimates say he could have made about $10 million a year -by doing nothing- had he licensed the strip's charachters for marketing. $10 million for no extra effort.

There was a minor flap at some point when Watterson demaded about twice the space in Sunday comics pages. He lamented that strips got smaller and artists had less and less space to really create. So he simply said "either give me more space, or don't run it." I think some papers did drop the strip, but many gave him the space.

At the time, it was easy to think of it almost like blackmail. But when you consider that he never profited from the marketing of those characters, he really just seemed to be true to what he wanted his creation to be.

Amazing strip, amazing guy. In a time when it seems you can be a celebrity for almost anything - genius not necessary - here's a guy who a nation crowned "best cartoonist ever" and he simply never wanted the publicity or fame.

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$95??? DAMN!!!

You had me sold on this thing, until you said, "$95."

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it's 3 hardcover books, with EVERY cartoon in them. i think it's a good deal even at $95.

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If you don't already own all the Calvin & Hobbes, there's something seriously wrong with you.

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Daryn, those two books were mine and my brothers first as well.

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interesting, the first book i ever read was the original "calvin and hobbes." i was like 6 or so.

edit: oh, you didnt mean first "books."

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No, Calvin and Hobbes is number one and the Far Side is awesome, but Bloom County isn't that far behind.

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At its best, Bloom County was probably the best written comic strip. BC had some good years and some so-so years, while I think C&H was consistently great.

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I'll give you #1, but your #2 is out to lunch.

Peanuts (read the earlier stuff)
Doonesburry
Achewood
Maakies

There's more I can think of, but Far Side isn't very high on my list at all.