Calvin & Hobbes

[fbWldcat]

+1, I still read Calvin and Hobbes whenever I'm sitting around my house looking for things to do. One of my favorite C&H Books is probably Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat. 

Weirdos From Another Planet (Which has QUITE a bit of symbolism and references to human behavior, I might add).

[Simaril]

Weirdos From Another Planet (Which has QUITE a bit of symbolism and references to human behavior, I might add).

Watterson had a gift for subtly covering the fact that he is a very, very smart man.

First signal - the title of his strip. Calvin was a boy, and Hobbes a tiger - but consider that John Calvin believed that every tiny detail was predestined by God's plan and power, while Thomas Hobbes believed that all power should derive from the consent of the governed.

[Zeagle]

My wife got me the big hardback book of Calvin and Hobbes from Barnes and Noble I think. Awsome!

The first time I ever saw C&H, Calvin was in some kind of fighter, Hobbes in back, ship on fire, going in....then he comes to in the classroom looking out the window. I said "that's me".

[fbWldcat]

Ah yes, predestination and consent of the governed. He gives little morals such as in the Weirdos From Another Planet, that there is no one definition of normal "We're just humans, not an alien like he is." Or I especially love the hundreds of references as to how humans are destroying the planet little by little through pollution.

He mixes it rather well with many seemingly innocent cartoons. And then there is the couple cartoons where Calvin tries to destroy his school (A reference to Watterson hating the school systems? I know that Harper Lee doesn't enjoy them much ).

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[jimson]

Jeez, thanks for ruining it for me with all the philosophical, political undercurrent. Now I gotta boycott him along with Springsteen, Alec Baldwin and George Clooney.

[Simaril]

Jeez, thanks for ruining it for me with all the philosophical, political undercurrent. Now I gotta boycott him along with Springsteen, Alec Baldwin and George Clooney.

Oh no! Not in the same category at all!

Waterson isn't political, he just is capable of THINKING...which puts him far ahead of Baldwin, Gere, and the rest of them!

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[MORAY37]

Snowman season was the best. 

Thanks for the good laughs and the excuse to pull down the C&H books.