Calvin and Hobbes: The best comic strip ever created?

[Sneaky Paladin]

Yes.

For me, there hasn't even been another comic that's come close. Sure, Far Side and a few other comics made me laugh, but Calvin and Hobbes got so deep. Not even just when the philosophical sled rides and snowmen armies, but with little life lessons that even adults sometimes forget that they knew.

I dunno, it just made life SIMPLE, and awesome, like when you were a kid. I've read them for years and I still laugh at adventures that he had in his head. I mean, we ALL remember what that was like and how much fun it was! Other comics have witty punchlines that make you laugh for a few minutes, but Calvin and Hobbes is something you could read for a lifetime.

Dang...you're making me wanna go dig up my old...collection...


Ooh, and just for funsies:
http://progressiveboink.com/archive/calvinhobbes.htm

The one in there on cynically manipulating the system is freaking hilarious

 

[McShizzle]

I love Calvin & Hobbes. I used to have all the books, before I left home for school. I came back one summer to find my mom had sold them all in a yardsale for $15.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

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.

I always prefferred Calvin and Hobbes to Gary Larson, they're both amazing but C & H had that warm, fuzzy heart that made the characters so loveable. They tend to stay in my memory more.

Oh and how has no-one mentioned Asterix yet? Greatest cartoon books ever written!

 

[nohorsetown]

Yeah, probably. It's tied with Bloom County for my favorite strip, but Bloom County was so specific to the time it was made, whereas Calvin and Hobbes has aged pretty well. And Calvin and Hobbes is just so damn.. good. Freakin' heartwarming but never in a cheesy way. And of course, Bill Watterson just seems like such a respectable guy.. a real artist.. I think it's awesome he decided to gracefully end the strip when he did.

 

[McNinja]

Best comics ever made: Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side, and Bloom County, not necessarily in that order.

Bill Waterson is/was a great cartoonist, and I really wish I had the money to buy that $150 treasury that come out like a year or two ago. I own three of the treasuries, and some of the smaller collection books. Did Calvin and Hobbes change me? Nah. But it did make me laugh.

 

[McNinja]

Whoah, Calvin and Hobbes really ended...?

Wait, it this how...?

Spoiler

Well..

Spoiler

I'd seen that first one, but not the second.

Allow me to take the time to thank you wholeheartedly for saving my childhood.

This is how Calvin and Hobbes really ended:

This is one of the only stips that has made me say "F**K YES!" after reading Calvins last line. I really do want to go exploring...

 

[concietedgrl]

If you own the complete works it has an introduction in book 1 (there are 3 each between 500-600 pages long) and he explains everything. I give Kudos to the man for never NEVER selling out by allowing his charactors to become merchandinse. As much as Id love to own Calvin and Hobbes memorabilia I do understand the cheapening of something so special to a creator to not want it sold as plates, keyrings, lunchboxes, etc. It is sad to not have new comics but 10 years is a damn good run and when I miss them I just crack open one of the books!

 

[NeutralDrow]

Whoah, Calvin and Hobbes really ended...?

Wait, it this how...?

Spoiler

Well..

Spoiler

I'd seen that first one, but not the second.

Allow me to take the time to thank you wholeheartedly for saving my childhood.

This is how Calvin and Hobbes really ended:
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll106/Ninjabob48/ch951231.jpg
This is one of the only stips that has made me say "F**K YES!" after reading Calvins last line. I really do want to go exploring...

...thanks. I needed that reminder.

Yes, that is complete sarcasm. Believe me, the thing I remember most about that particular strip was that it was the last one. I checked the newspaper the next time only to find Calvin and Hobbes had been replaced by something called Mutts.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Whoah, Calvin and Hobbes really ended...?

Wait, it this how...?

Spoiler

AUUUUGH! That is fucking tragic! ...thankfully though I don't think that's official.

As for C&H, I loved Calvin and Hobbes, I'd sometimes spend hours reading the collections.
It was a great loss when Watterson retired.

 

[McNinja]

Whoah, Calvin and Hobbes really ended...?

Wait, it this how...?

Spoiler

AUUUUGH! That is fucking tragic! ...thankfully though I don't think that's official.

As for C&H, I loved Calvin and Hobbes, I'd sometimes spend hours reading the collections.
It was a great loss when Watterson retired.

Thankfully it isn't. The lettering isn't the same, and Watterson never used the enter button between sentences. It's one of those things like the Robot Chicken Calvin and Hobbes skit (sketch? I don't know what they are), showing a tragic side of how C&H could've ended, as opposed to the rather bright and joyful ending Watterson gave it.

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

In my opinion, yes. In popular opinion, probably yes as well. Although for the longest time I couldn't figure out whether or not Hobbes could speak and move and all.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Whoah, Calvin and Hobbes really ended...?

Wait, it this how...?

Spoiler

AUUUUGH! That is fucking tragic! ...thankfully though I don't think that's official.

As for C&H, I loved Calvin and Hobbes, I'd sometimes spend hours reading the collections.
It was a great loss when Watterson retired.

Thankfully it isn't. The lettering isn't the same, and Watterson never used the enter button between sentences. It's one of those things like the Robot Chicken Calvin and Hobbes skit (sketch? I don't know what they are), showing a tragic side of how C&H could've ended, as opposed to the rather bright and joyful ending Watterson gave it.

No, I didn't think so; but official or not, I felt a part of my soul die when I read that thing.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Calvin and Hobbes rule.

 

[Cain_Zeros]

Whoah, Calvin and Hobbes really ended...?

Wait, it this how...?

Spoiler

Well..

Spoiler

I'd seen that first one, but not the second.

Allow me to take the time to thank you wholeheartedly for saving my childhood.

This is how Calvin and Hobbes really ended:

Best possible ending for it.

After scouring my shelves it turns out I lost the There's Treasure Everywhere book. Dammit, that means I only have eight, including one of the bigger collections.

 

[acosn]

Both Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes are legendary, but I have to give C+H more props because production side it was truly a labor of love (read his editorials in the anniversary collection- he basically fought tooth and nail to keep it his own work) and at both a fundamental and more ambiguous level more ambitious just by merit of there being semi-persistent story lines.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

There is, of course, the crossover version:

 

[Queen Michael]

I love Calvin and Hobbes. And when I was a little kid, my love of it was fanatic. But I have to say that my current favorite newspaper comic is the old Moomin comics by Tove and Lars Jansson. (They are available in English editions.)

 

[Yeager942]

Wow, lot of Far Side fans here. Now I feel better for owning every single one of them in those god-awful, huge volumes.
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And yeah, Calvin and Hobbes is good too.

 

[OmegaCheese]

Never read it. I was always partial to Bloom County... until that whole Donald Trump saga.

DAMN YOU TRUMP! YOU ENDED ONE OF THE BEST COMIC STRIP SERIES' EVER!

I think C&H and Bloom County are two of the best strips of all time.

 

[MrNickster]

I have never found Calvin and Hobbes funny. At all. I'm much more of a Garfield person.