carlfense Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 http://bookriot.com/2012/02/06/sixteen-things-calvin-and-hobbes-said-better-than-anyone-else/ Good stuff. I miss this strip. Quote Link to comment
huKSer Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Well this is out dated Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes: Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce. Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers. Quote Link to comment
GSG Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 My favorite was always the snowmen Quote Link to comment
NUance Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 The very last Calvin and Hobbes strip. Man, I miss that comic strip. One of the greatest ever. Maybe THE greatest. : Quote Link to comment
huKSer Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 From wikipedia In early 2010, Watterson was interviewed by The Plain Dealer on the 15th anniversary of the end of Calvin and Hobbes. Explaining his decision to discontinue the strip, he said, This isn't as hard to understand as people try to make it. By the end of ten years, I'd said pretty much everything I had come there to say. It's always better to leave the party early. If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, ten, or twenty years, the people now "grieving" for Calvin and Hobbes would be wishing me dead and cursing newspapers for running tedious, ancient strips like mine instead of acquiring fresher, livelier talent. And I'd be agreeing with them. I think some of the reason Calvin and Hobbes still finds an audience today is because I chose not to run the wheels off it. I've never regretted stopping when I did.[23] Quote Link to comment
NUance Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 From wikipedia In early 2010, Watterson was interviewed by The Plain Dealer on the 15th anniversary of the end of Calvin and Hobbes. Explaining his decision to discontinue the strip, he said, This isn't as hard to understand as people try to make it. By the end of ten years, I'd said pretty much everything I had come there to say. It's always better to leave the party early. If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, ten, or twenty years, the people now "grieving" for Calvin and Hobbes would be wishing me dead and cursing newspapers for running tedious, ancient strips like mine instead of acquiring fresher, livelier talent. And I'd be agreeing with them. I think some of the reason Calvin and Hobbes still finds an audience today is because I chose not to run the wheels off it. I've never regretted stopping when I did.[23] Watterson ending Calvin&Hobbes = Tom Osborne retiring after 1997 Quote Link to comment
The Dude Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Good stuff, indeed. Loved ol' Calvin and Hobbes. Quote Link to comment
strigori Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 From wikipedia In early 2010, Watterson was interviewed by The Plain Dealer on the 15th anniversary of the end of Calvin and Hobbes. Explaining his decision to discontinue the strip, he said, This isn't as hard to understand as people try to make it. By the end of ten years, I'd said pretty much everything I had come there to say. It's always better to leave the party early. If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, ten, or twenty years, the people now "grieving" for Calvin and Hobbes would be wishing me dead and cursing newspapers for running tedious, ancient strips like mine instead of acquiring fresher, livelier talent. And I'd be agreeing with them. I think some of the reason Calvin and Hobbes still finds an audience today is because I chose not to run the wheels off it. I've never regretted stopping when I did.[23] He didn't want to become Garfield. There is certainly something to knowing when to call it a wrap. Quote Link to comment
The Dude Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 From wikipedia In early 2010, Watterson was interviewed by The Plain Dealer on the 15th anniversary of the end of Calvin and Hobbes. Explaining his decision to discontinue the strip, he said, This isn't as hard to understand as people try to make it. By the end of ten years, I'd said pretty much everything I had come there to say. It's always better to leave the party early. If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, ten, or twenty years, the people now "grieving" for Calvin and Hobbes would be wishing me dead and cursing newspapers for running tedious, ancient strips like mine instead of acquiring fresher, livelier talent. And I'd be agreeing with them. I think some of the reason Calvin and Hobbes still finds an audience today is because I chose not to run the wheels off it. I've never regretted stopping when I did.[23] Watterson ending Calvin&Hobbes = Tom Osborne retiring after 1997 haha yeah basically. Quote Link to comment
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