Calvin and Hobbes: The best comic strip ever created?

[DethVanXan]

Calvin and Hobbes is definatly one of the greatest comic strips ever drawn. It's funny and smart and even touching at times.
Far Side is more geared towards simple humour, not that there's anything wrong with that. I love the Far Side strips just as much as I do the Calvin and Hobbes strips.
Differant comics for differant audiences, but both are brilliant.

 

[willman137]

Calvin and Hobbes is definatly one of the greatest comic strips ever drawn. It's funny and smart and even touching at times.
Far Side is more geared towards simple humour, not that there's anything wrong with that. I love the Far Side strips just as much as I do the Calvin and Hobbes strips.
Differant comics for differant audiences, but both are brilliant.

True,and I can't say I wasn't alienated by the far side, as I also read that only through a fraction of my childhood, but still funny.

 

[BabySinclair]

I wrote a research paper based off Calvinball for a philosophy class.

It also featured the greatest snowmen of all time

 

[teutonicman]

Either that or The Boondocks, the show is really good too.

 

[p3t3r]

Calvin and Hobbes is so great. my favorite evar. and i have an awesome Calvin and Hobbes to shirt too.

Really? I thought Bill Watterson was against merchandising the series to anything like T-shirts, how'd you get it?

well it was my dads but it is a bit to small for him. anyways we have to one is a comic strip of Calvin taking a bath in a toilet and the other one is a picture of them dancing with a little speech or something. my dads not sure were he got them says they were a gift probably weren't official

 

[willman137]

Calvin and Hobbes is so great. my favorite evar. and i have an awesome Calvin and Hobbes to shirt too.

Really? I thought Bill Watterson was against merchandising the series to anything like T-shirts, how'd you get it?

well it was my dads but it is a bit to small for him. anyways we have to one is a comic strip of Calvin taking a bath in a toilet and the other one is a picture of them dancing with a little speech or something. my dads not sure were he got them says they were a gift probably weren't official

Cool, sounds interesting.

 

[DefunctTheory]

Either that or The Boondocks, the show is really good too.

I used to like Boondocks too, until I realized the creator of the serious is a bat shit loon.

 

[azncutthroat]

Whoah, Calvin and Hobbes really ended...?

Wait, it this how...?

Spoiler

 

[archvile93]

It's great, brilliant even, but it's not quite as good as the Far Side.

But then again, nothing could be.

I still love em both.

agreed

 

[willman137]

Either that or The Boondocks, the show is really good too.

I used to like Boondocks too, until I realized the creator of the serious is a bat shit loon.

Really? never read it but a bat shit loon? sounds like a lot of people don't like him. ("no shit sherlock!" is heard from the background)

 

[The Spectator]

Whoah, Calvin and Hobbes really ended...?

Wait, it this how...?

Spoiler

Well..

Spoiler

 

[henrius]

Calvin and Hobbes is a brilliant comic, my favorite comic series and definitely one of the best out there. When I was young Calvin and Hobbes had great appeal, they'd get into crazy misadventures and Calvin had quite the imaginary friend that any kid would love to have. Later in Bill Watterson's career he created BRILLIANT social commentaries, usually revolving around Calvin being the materialistic, evil bastard in all of us or pointing out insights into the human experience, and that's how it appeals to me and I assume most older readers today. Unfortunately Watterson quit Calvin and Hobbes, and I hope he pulls a Berkley Breathed (Bloom County, Opus) and brings it back to papers, at least for a little while. If there was an official comic "hall of memories" or something Calvin and Hobbes should be dubbed the best comic series.

The strip about Calvin on Ritalin further up this thread is to depressing (Thank you Savory for the uplifting reply).

 

[The Almighty Aardvark]

It's great, brilliant even, but it's not quite as good as the Far Side.

But then again, nothing could be.

I still love em both.

Agreed. Gary Larson is a comedic genius.

Calvin and Hobbes is good but I never ended up getting into it.

 

[DefunctTheory]

Calvin and Hobbes is a brilliant comic, my favorite comic series and definitely one of the best out there. When I was young Calvin and Hobbes had great appeal, they'd get into crazy misadventures and Calvin had quite the imaginary friend that any kid would love to have. Later in Bill Watterson's career he created BRILLIANT social commentaries, usually revolving around Calvin being the materialistic, evil bastard in all of us or pointing out insights into the human experience, and that's how it appeals to me and I assume most older readers today. Unfortunately Watterson quit Calvin and Hobbes, and I hope he pulls a Berkley Breathed (Bloom County, Opus) and brings it back to papers, at least for a little while. If there was an official comic "hall of memories" or something Calvin and Hobbes should be dubbed the best comic series.

The strip about Calvin on Ritalin further up this thread is to depressing (Thank you Savory for the uplifting reply).

It'll never happen. They already asked Bill Waterson about this, and he's quite adamant that Calvin and Hobbes is dead. According to him, it was better to leave the party early while it was still good, rather than drag it out until we all had a sour taste in our mouths.

And I agree with him.

 

[Browbeat]

I have been rediscovering Calvin and Hobbes every five years or so, finding something different to delight over each and every time.

Calving and Hobbes has also taught me English.

And how to be snarky in English.

My hat comes off to one Bill Watterson.

BUT!

I feel that while this original work is great, its monumental value is contested by an offshoot of a lackluster comic, which is Garfield Minus Garfield.

 

[DeAvatar]

Whoah, Calvin and Hobbes really ended...?

Wait, it this how...?

Spoiler

Well..

Spoiler

I saw both of those "strips" on the web, never really seeing those in the pubs or books. Not debasing the fact that those two may or may not be done by Waterson, I still applaude the use of it by you gentlefolk.

 

[King of the N00bs]

I fucking loved it....thats all i can say

 

[henrius]

It'll never happen. They already asked Bill Waterson about this, and he's quite adamant that Calvin and Hobbes is dead. According to him, it was better to leave the party early while it was still good, rather than drag it out until we all had a sour taste in our mouths.

Still, I could always use more Calvin and Hobbes. I feel he could've kept it going, even if it was just a little while longer, but that is a good point and I'm glad it never had the chance to become stale.

 

[LitleWaffle]

I has all of the books but I lost one 2 years ago. =(

I have read these all of my life and i have failed in seeing a comic strip thats better than it.

 

[Turtleboy1017]

I personally like Foxtrot more.

But C and H is still fucking awesome.