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Now if Bill Watterson comes out of retirement and starts drawing Calvin and Hobbes again that’d make everyday just a little bit better. A fan made Hobbes and B
by ceocoder 6y ago
Now if Bill Watterson comes out of retirement and starts drawing Calvin and Hobbes again that’d make everyday just a little bit better.
A fan made Hobbes and Bacon https://imgur.com/gallery/tUzAL https://imgur.com/gallery/tUzAL usually fan art never measures up to the original but this is that exception to the rule. It choked me up a bit to see Hobbes play with Bacon - Calvin’s little daughter.
- Shared404 6y agoIndeed. Honestly, I'd be happy with him giving official sanction to Hobbes and Bacon and that getting continued.
- ceocoder 6y agoIt is highly unlikely though, This isn't as hard to understand as people try to make it. By the end of ten years, I'd said pretty much everything I had come there to say. It's always better to leave the party early. If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, ten, or twenty years, the people now "grieving" for Calvin and Hobbes would be wishing me dead and cursing newspapers for running tedious, ancient strips like mine instead of acquiring fresher, livelier talent. And I'd be agreeing with them. I think some of the reason Calvin and Hobbes still finds an audience today is because I chose not to run the wheels off it. I've never regretted stopping when I did. That’s from his last interview here https://www.cleveland.com/living/2010/02/bill_watterson_creator_of_belo.html https://www.cleveland.com/living/2010/02/bill_watterson_crea... Edit: not sure if you saw this https://twitter.com/stevesilberman/status/530095596279848960?s=21 https://twitter.com/stevesilberman/status/530095596279848960... He made this recently
- ghaff 6y agoBloom County, Dilbert (shudder), Doonesbury (though the characters at least aged and moved through life)... All pretty much wore out whatever made them special in their prime.
- djsumdog 6y agoI still like Dilbert.
- ghaff 6y agoEh. There's the odd fun strip or sequence now and then. But it's mostly stuck in the 90s Pac Bell cubicle world where Scott Adams worked. There's so much fresh SV material to mine that Dilbert really doesn't. (And that's leaving aside Scott Adams' personal persona.)
- ponker 6y agoYou really nailed what I hadn't been able to verbalize. Dilbert is still stuck in a world that no longer exists. The open hostility, hierarchy, etc. of the corporate world has been replaced with this kind of generic feel-goodyness that still has the same sociopathic corporate behaviors but cloaked in some kind of faux "meaning"... the HBO show really nails some of this while Dilbert feels antiquated.
- mercer 6y agoAlso, much as I'd like to, I can't get past Scott Adams 'personal persona'. It ruined Dilbert for me. Perhaps it shouldn't, but it did.
- labster 6y agoIt’s hard for me to appreciate Scott’s daily dose of misanthropy. By the time I get to the comics page, I’ve already been dosed with the pure, uncut stuff on the front page, spoken by our American President.
- mc32 6y agoDidn’t bloom county come back for a reprise for a bit with a different name and then went lights out a second time?
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- mc32 6y agoI agree with that. The kids grow up. Continuing it is like someone who refuses to become an adult and remains an adolescent into what should be their productive adult years.
- kristiandupont 6y agoThis is exactly what happened to The Simpsons. Had they stopped at season 8, I would be cherishing those memories. Now they just feel sort of sad.
- endgame 6y agoJust let Calvin & Hobbes stand as its own beautiful finished thing. One of the reasons Calvin & Hobbes is so timeless and beloved is that it's not _that_ anchored in any particular time period. While it's dated somewhat by its big chunky TVs and landline phones, most of the "Calvin being a kid"-ness is timeless. Hobbes & Bacon couldn't make it five panels without referencing contemporary politics.
- ceocoder 6y agoI agree with you 100% - it is done and Watterson has earned his retirement and then some, it is just the irrational, insatiable part of my psyche - you know the one that wants just one more chocolate covered almond, one more crisp, one more beer - that part wants one more. Just One More - that’s the story of our gluttonous journey through time.
- endgame 6y agoI know this feeling very well. But after seeing so many things I liked slide into substandard mockeries of their peaks, I'm more than happy to watch people draw a line around their work and say "this is done".
- mixmastamyk 6y agoYep one of the first ones mentions trump and I think I made an audible groan. Not why I read C&H.
- Shared404 6y agoI agree. It's just wishful thinking, not what I think would actually be best.
- ponker 6y agoKeep in mind that that strip referencing Donald Trump was from 2011. He was a contemporary douchebag but not yet a contemporary politician.
- sohkamyung 6y agoAs a consolation, check out the 'April Fools' comics in the new Berkeley Breathe 'Bloom County' comics. He works with Watterson to create 'Calvin County' on those days. Here's one example [1] [1] https://twitter.com/bloomcounty/status/848140939520598018 https://twitter.com/bloomcounty/status/848140939520598018
- egypturnash 6y agoDana Simpson is not Bill Watterson and Phoebe And Her Unicorn is not Calvin And Hobbes, but when Dana started syndication, Universal gave her a copy of the complete C&H, and she still suspects it may have been a not-so-subtle hint that they expected her to fill those shoes. P&HU has a similar dynamic of "smart kid with a magical animal companion", and an artist who refuses to bow down to the ultra-simplified styles so many strips adopt to work at the miniscule sizes a lot of papers want to squeeze them into. Perhaps it will make every day a little bit better. https://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn https://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn
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- klipt 6y agoShe also created the excellent Ozy and Millie: https://ozyandmillie.org/comic/ozy-and-millie-787/ https://ozyandmillie.org/comic/ozy-and-millie-787/ If you're going to San Francisco Be sure to wear some flour in your hair
- Sniffnoy 6y agoOh, that makes a lot of sense! Ozy and Millie always reminded me heavily of Calvin and Hobbes. Hadn't heard of Phoebe and Her Unicorn before; may have to check it out.
- mercer 6y agoOh wow, that's a wonderful recommendation! Thanks!
- roryokane 6y agoThose who miss Calvin might also like Alice: https://www.alicecomics.com/comic/welcome/ https://www.alicecomics.com/comic/welcome/. The main character Alice frequently engages in flights of fancy like Calvin’s Spaceman Spiff episodes. She doesn’t have an animal companion, but she does sometimes bring her human friend Dot along. Alice has 1,057 strips in its archive. It is no longer being updated, but all the important plot threads were resolved by the end.
- acomjean 6y agoI think that site is hacked. Its trying to get me to download a flash updater. (actually downloaded a dmg when I clicked back, which was a weird trick). maybe its just the ad network.).. proceed with caution.
- efreak 6y agoAshley Appletree is a webcomic that reminded me very much of Calvin & Hobbes.