Friday Fun Link, Pt. 2

Because there's no such thing as too much fun, especially in January … here are some Calvin & Hobbes snowmen, recreated.

Comments

[sage]

Mr. Welch, before I click the link, is it clean for work?

[Matt Welch]

Was Calvin & Hobbes clean for work? That's the question. No sex, if that's what you mean.

[Solitudinarian]

That warms the cockles of my black heart...

[Jesse Walker]

Boy, how I miss that strip.

[smacky]

Calvin and Hobbes was the best comic strip, ever. The first strip to popularize twisted humor in the daily comics, I think.

[Solitudinarian]

"Krazy Kat" was pretty twisted, though...

[SixSigma]

When I grow up, I want to be just like Calvin.

Anyone remember the polls on his father?

"Bad news Dad. Your polls are way down."
"My polls?"
"You rate especialy low among tigers and six year old white males."

[SPD]

What a brilliantly demented comic strip that was.

[joe]

Calvin's up there with The Far Side and Bloom County.

[dhex]

reason meets something awful.

wow.

[isildur]

dhex, it's not the first time. Disturbing, eh? It's like Reason got their chocolate in my peanut butter, or something.

[NoStar]

Reason got chocolate on your peanut butter? Yuck!!! That sounds positively like santorum.

[mtc]

Yes, joining the chorus, greatest comic ever.
I thought the redding of the snow perhaps wasn't a pure interpertation, but I like it. I can't beleive I never thought of this before.

Now, please, someone ruin it by pointing out that Watterson was an enviormentalist whacko.

[Mo]

Anyone up for a rousing game of Calvinball?

[Thomas Paine's Goiter]

Another in the "greatest comic ever" crowd.

I have all of the follow-on collections too.

The sublime genius that is Hobbes was always my favorite part...excepting Calvinball.

And Lieutenant Lowercase - stay out of this one, it's not about that!

[Thomas Paine's Goiter]

Anyone up for a rousing game of Calvinball?

Damn. Beat me to it.

[Kurt]

One of the best ever from Monday to Saturday, but I thought the Sunday strips were boring and repetitive. (The ferocious dinosaur turns out to be Calvin daydreaming! No way!)

[Stevo Darkly]

I think the dinosaur strips were really the cartoonist's excuse to draw dinosaurs -- and he did a good job.

I draw dinosaurs whenever I get a chance.

And I also miss C&H, and the snowmen were one of my favorite bits.

[Andrea Harris]

To the guy asking if the linked page is clean for work... it is until you scroll down to the chevy.

[Matt Murphy]

Quite possibly the greatest comic strip of all time...but enough people here have already said that. For some reason, one particular strip always stands out when I think about Calvin & Hobbes:

Calvin: Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads.

Hobbes (rolling eyeballs): I wonder which one you are?

Calvin: I pragmatically turn my whims into principles!

Then there are the test question strips. Calvin writes on a test that he cannot answer math questions because they violate his religious beliefs as a "math atheist." Calvin refuses to answer a question because his response may "compromise our agents in the field." Calvin asks Susie Derkins what 2 + 5 is, and when she answers "2 billion," he realizes that can't be right because that's what she said 4 + 3 was.

When I was in grade school, it seemed like all the kids considered C&H the greatest comic strip around, possibly because it depicted childhood so accurately and was hysterically funny to boot.

Here's are two funny roundups of Calvin quotes (also, here's a link to the immortal Snowball Prayer). Isn't there someone reading these words rich enough to bribe Bill Watterson out of retirement?

[Steven Crane]

The comic strip "Frazz" looks remarkably like Watterson's style (look at the characters' eyes/mouths), and even had a reference to C&H last week.