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Title: speaking of calvin & hobbes...
Post by: texasmom on August 30, 2007, 07:04:51 PM
From the 'you're it' thread:' (and also all the threads lately which include remarks about how much everyone either loves or hates the snow)

Would love to have a compilation of ALL of the snow related C&H strips.  They're funnier than all of the rest combined.
Title: speaking of calvin & hobbes...
Post by: Meatwad on August 30, 2007, 08:22:49 PM
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~xiet/calvin_and_hobbes_snow_art_gallery/index.html
Title: speaking of calvin & hobbes...
Post by: Vudak on August 30, 2007, 08:29:03 PM
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Originally posted by Meatwad
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~xiet/calvin_and_hobbes_snow_art_gallery/index.html


That's a pretty good chunk of 'em.  Missing a few though...  "He knows I hate this" :D

(I think I've spent more time reading Calvin & Hobbes throughout my life than anything else.  Some of my earliest memories of my grandfather involve sitting on his lap, having him read "The Lazy Sunday Book" to me :) )
Title: speaking of calvin & hobbes...
Post by: JB73 on August 30, 2007, 08:30:19 PM
thank you both


fng saved for posterity.



though it is missing a few important ones, like when Calvin makes a ton of little ones, then atacks them viewed as a tyrannosaurs rex, and the whole 2 headed snow monster series.


:D

:aok
Title: Hijack in progress
Post by: TalonX on August 30, 2007, 08:36:40 PM
But the best cartoonist ever was Gary Larsen (sp?).  The Far SideŽ


Title: Re: Hijack in progress
Post by: Vudak on August 30, 2007, 08:41:36 PM
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Originally posted by TalonX
But the best cartoonist ever was Gary Larsen (sp?).  The Far SideŽ




He's definately up there...  Another genius.  Even Bill Watterson was a fan (and he's not exactly one to like every comic out there...  I think he said Larson and Troudeau were the two modern day cartoonists he enjoyed the most).
Title: speaking of calvin & hobbes...
Post by: Dago on August 30, 2007, 10:05:00 PM
Snow Gallery (http://www.angelfire.com/wa/zzaran/calvin.html)
Title: speaking of calvin & hobbes...
Post by: texasmom on August 30, 2007, 11:31:11 PM
Dang, y'all are awesome. :D  Thanks!
Title: speaking of calvin & hobbes...
Post by: LePaul on August 31, 2007, 12:29:58 AM
I have all the cartoon books, he's a very gifted artist.

If you read up on the cartoonist, he quite primarily because he felt "boxed in" at the size he was limited to in his comic strips.  Good read about him on Wiki and elsewhere.
Title: speaking of calvin & hobbes...
Post by: Vudak on August 31, 2007, 12:36:38 AM
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Originally posted by LePaul
I have all the cartoon books, he's a very gifted artist.

If you read up on the cartoonist, he quite primarily because he felt "boxed in" at the size he was limited to in his comic strips.  Good read about him on Wiki and elsewhere.


Having drawn (very poorly) a comic strip for my college newspaper for awhile, I am completely amazed at how he managed to pull off everything that he did.  Especially with the tools he used (finer technical pens are hard enough to get the hang of, I can't imagine getting that sort of detail on such a small scale with a sable brush).

The thing I really admire about Watterson is that he looked at his work as "art" rather than "product."  There are not an awful lot of people who are willing to do more work for less money the way he did.

(And for those of you who don't think it's "work," try it for awhile.  Putting out just one a week can be tedious...  I can't imagine drawing 3-4 a day).
Title: speaking of calvin & hobbes...
Post by: texasmom on August 31, 2007, 12:52:05 AM
ROFL again! snowman x-ing... LOL
The one I didn't see was the shark & the snowman trying to frantically swim away.
Title: speaking of calvin & hobbes...
Post by: Curval on August 31, 2007, 07:57:47 AM
I don't need to read any more Calvin & Hobbes.  I have a son (Sam) who is Calvin incarnate.  Seriously.  Even looks like him, just doesn't have a Hobbes.
Title: speaking of calvin & hobbes...
Post by: JB88 on September 01, 2007, 12:52:52 PM
just stumbled into another collection of them. (http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/Calvin/index.html)
Title: speaking of calvin & hobbes...
Post by: texasmom on September 01, 2007, 06:54:34 PM
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Originally posted by Curval
I don't need to read any more Calvin & Hobbes.  I have a son (Sam) who is Calvin incarnate.  Seriously.  Even looks like him, just doesn't have a Hobbes.
Must be very much fun. Calvin is awesome.:)

88, thanks for the other link:)