I want a Calvin & Hobbes Cartoon. (TV show)
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They actually did a Farside TV episode, but it was a single shot special back in the 90's.OutrageousEmu said:
OT, there are some things that you simply can't commercialize and make into a TV series, and Bill Watterson fought tooth and nail to keep Calvin and Hobbes from having anything to do with commercialization and trying to cash in on it. That's why there is no approved Calvin and Hobbes merchandise other than bootleg stuff.
It just wouldn't go...and some things about my Childhood cannot be fucked with like that. Seriously, make a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon and it's either going to be dumbed down to appeal to little kids and completely miss the depth of it, or it's going to go over the top serious and not have any kind of silly fun to it. Picking out voice actors alone would just...no...just for the love of any higher power you want, NO.
Considering, as has been mentioned, that Bill Watterson is thoroughly dead set against letting Calvin & Hobbes get commercialized, I can't say that I'd want it either.
Calvin & Hobbes was one of the best things of my childhood, and I think the powerful and insightful nature of it along with the cutting wit would be seriously dulled by making it animated and, like almost every cartoon comedy I've ever seen, glib.
Also the environments in Calvin & Hobbes are just so awesomely surreal. I highly doubt that it would be anywhere near as awesome if it needed to be actively moved through.
In summary, no no no no no. Let it remain the most awesome thing ever as it is without trying to alter it in way which its creator would abhor.
Calvin & Hobbes was one of the best things of my childhood, and I think the powerful and insightful nature of it along with the cutting wit would be seriously dulled by making it animated and, like almost every cartoon comedy I've ever seen, glib.
Also the environments in Calvin & Hobbes are just so awesomely surreal. I highly doubt that it would be anywhere near as awesome if it needed to be actively moved through.
In summary, no no no no no. Let it remain the most awesome thing ever as it is without trying to alter it in way which its creator would abhor.
Absolutely not. I would never want to see Calvin and Hobbes as a cartoon, for one the would ruin the voices completely. Also adultswim would be the worst place for a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon, adultswim is not know for their child friendly programming, and Calvin and Hobbes is nothing if not child friendly.jacobschndr said:
Also this. Bill Watterson deserves to have his wishes respected, and not have a tv show made from his hard work.Space Spoons said:
YESS OH GOODNESS YESSpace Spoons said:
And no to C&H, Dilbert was pretty good but, two words: Baby Blues.
NO. FRICKING. WAY. I would sooner die than even HEAR of a C&H cartoon ESPECIALLY for Adult Swim. It's not what Calvin and Hobbes were developed for and I'd be running right now if I were you. Bill Watterson is probably on his way to your house to beat you with the stick he used to ink scenes in the rain.
*Deep breath* okay. I'm good now. I just feel very strongly that C&H should be left alone. Enjoy it in the way it was intended and leave it be. A push for marketing is what drove Watterson into retirement in the first place so I very much doubt he'll EVER sign off on a TV series.
As for Bloom County, there already is an animated short. It's called "A Wish For Wings That Work" starring Opus and Bill the Cat. I watch it every Christmas.
*Deep breath* okay. I'm good now. I just feel very strongly that C&H should be left alone. Enjoy it in the way it was intended and leave it be. A push for marketing is what drove Watterson into retirement in the first place so I very much doubt he'll EVER sign off on a TV series.
As for Bloom County, there already is an animated short. It's called "A Wish For Wings That Work" starring Opus and Bill the Cat. I watch it every Christmas.
Fun fact: back in the 90s there was an official Bloom County-esque Christmas special called "A Wish for Wings that Work" starring Opus and Bill the Cat. It's absolutely hilarious and worth tracking down (you can get it on DVD now).Nate Corran said:
Back on-topic, out or respect for Bill Waterson I'd say no to a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Waterson is opposed to marketing his creations in any form.
Even if he did allow such a show, it probably wouldn't do the original comic justice. Strips would often contain mature philisophical debates and sophisticated concepts, something that would be hard to transfer to cartoon form. Hell, I get annoyed at the bootleg "Calvin peeing" and "Calvin praying" car stickers for being out-of-character, so a show would most likely be even worse.
He's mocking not the idea that you can't make money while remaining an artist, but both the idea of giving away creative control in the name of marketability, and the thought among the avant-garde that one necessarily equates to the other. He was contemptuous not only of "selling out," in the one sense of the phrase that makes any sense at all, but of the post-modern art scene that had its head up its own ass for even worrying about it (among other things; he found modern art to generally be silly and snobbish, and it comes through in a lot of Calvin's snowman art).Dulcinea said:That comic strip states one cannot be an artist and a free thinker, and also a monetary success at the same time. I find that ideology clique and think with rhetoric.NeutralDrow said:That part's a given. Either way, I answered the thread question ("No way in hell would I want this").Dulcinea said:
Also, that Calvin the character is greedy and has an ego that eclipses his actual talent.
Have you actually read the comic?
Well, you cant do it with Calvin, cause of the fact it wouldnt compare with the comic, and people wouldnt want to watch it if its in the same programming as FG, AD, RC, or Squidbillies.
I dont see it being any good at all really. it would just seem like a cashing in on something popular named. Besides, the comic ended, and the way it ended was probably one of the most childhood crushing moments (at least in comics).
I dont see it being any good at all really. it would just seem like a cashing in on something popular named. Besides, the comic ended, and the way it ended was probably one of the most childhood crushing moments (at least in comics).
No you don't, because it would inevitably fail to live up to the standards to which you will hold it.
I'd like someone to give it a TRY and SEE if it could work as an idea. No point shooting it down because you THINK it would be bad. I'd like to find out for myself.