by "ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
Published 02/14/2017 at 09:57
by "ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
Published 02/14/2017 at 09:57
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STARS: 26
"wiffleballtony" (wiffleballtony)
02/14/2017 at 09:59, STARS: 5
Mercedes problems
"Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer" (smallbear94)
02/14/2017 at 10:09, STARS: 10
C&H is a work of art. These ones in particular. Love the way he works with the first two frames.
Have one of my favorites.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
02/14/2017 at 10:13, STARS: 1
His neighbors will be fine, as they drive a Range Rover. Wait - shit.
"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
02/14/2017 at 10:19, STARS: 1
Is he using the same car as both a Mercedes sports car, AND a mini-van?
Calvin always did have a wild imagination.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
02/14/2017 at 10:24, STARS: 0
Well, maybe, but Bill may also have just chosen to use the same color code for both when he sent in the guide to make it easy. The old process, you had to state a list of colors used in the drawing and add colored pen notes for where each of the colors got used for the guys setting up the template.
I don’t think Calvin’s Hair Yellow or Calvin’s Speech Bubble Blue (whatever their real names are) would have worked for the second car, so instead of having a one-panel-only color, he just made both Calvin’s Shirt Red? Plausible.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
02/14/2017 at 10:30, STARS: 2
Show and tell ones are always excellent.
The last is my favorite.
"Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer" (smallbear94)
02/14/2017 at 10:38, STARS: 0
I like the Invisible Cretinizer.
XD
"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
02/14/2017 at 10:41, STARS: 0
Yeah, could be. I think I would have gone with the sofa-leg brown for a stereotypical 1980s minivan, though. But to be fair, red wasn’t unheard-of for those minivans, and neither was light blue.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
02/14/2017 at 10:42, STARS: 1
Nor yet Calvin’s Shoe Beige. Very possible also that he was doing the color guide on autopilot and didn’t think about distinguishing them, or somebody else did the color guide.
"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
02/14/2017 at 11:23, STARS: 0
I have never once laughed at Calvin and Hobbes or Doonesbury, yet both are cultural icons. There, I said it. Now I have to go make a car decal of Calvin peeing on Calvin with Xzibit’s face above it.
"davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com" (davesaddiction)
02/14/2017 at 12:54, STARS: 0
Never once at C&H? Not even a chuckle or a chortle?!
What does make you laugh?
"merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc" (merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc)
02/14/2017 at 13:13, STARS: 3
My absolute favorite one.
"Roundbadge" (Roundbadge)
02/14/2017 at 13:30, STARS: 1
I’m not fully convinced that Ash78 is human.
"Justino6969" (justino6969)
02/14/2017 at 16:40, STARS: 2
The complete collection is still one of the best purchases I’ve ever made.
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
02/15/2017 at 09:11, STARS: 0
I started reading Calvin in the WaPo back in college in the late 80s. I don’t think I laughed either. But I appreciated it. However, now that I have kids, I fully understand the genius of the cartoon. While it’s not LOL funny, it offers an insight into both parenting and childhood that is rich, poignant, and utterly true. And while not uproariously funny (honestly, are there any comics that are?), I always crack a knowing smile and feel a warmth inside and think, “Yes, that’s exactly right.” Watterson shines an laser-focused light on the childhood condition (and that of exasperated moms and trolling dads) and we know it’s true because we’ve all been there. In many ways, Calvin helps me to understand my own children.
I was never a real fan of Doonesbury, but I was younger when I was trying to read it and never went back when I got older. There are many who believe that Doonesbury belongs on the editorial page, and I think there is some truth to that. Trudeau does have a way of cutting to the pith of an issue, though, in much the same way Watterson does with Calvin, though Trudeau’s subjects are more political or adult themed.
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
02/15/2017 at 09:12, STARS: 1
That third panel.
"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
02/15/2017 at 09:17, STARS: 1
Well said, I may have to revisit Calvin at some point. I feel the same way about Family Circus — the only one-panel comic I ever loved was Far Side, but as I got older and had kids, I realized that Family Circus often had amazing insight into the family dynamic (sometimes subtly dark) that I never realized as a kid. Maybe part of my problem is trying to see Calvin from a kid’s perspective, even though I’m an adult. I knew so many fanbois of it back in high school and college, but it always felt like they were pretending to like it so they could seem cooler or edgier than everyone else (hint: It didn’t work. We were all in chess club together.)
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
02/15/2017 at 09:26, STARS: 0
Agreed about Family Circus, but I was often put off by the preachiness of it.
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
02/15/2017 at 09:34, STARS: 0
Something that I will add about Doonesbury. My father was a news junkie, and every night at supper we watched the local news and then NBC Nightly News (our family never had dinnertime discussions, because he was always shushing us so he could hear; I have no TV in my kitchen today). I became interested in current events, and while I never quite understood the point of many Doonesbury cartoons, I got the idea that there was much more to the story than what I was hearing on the news. If anything, Doonesbury encouraged me to find deeper meaning to what was happening in our country. I think it taught me to be a very skeptical adult, and I think that is paying large dividends, particularly today.
"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
02/15/2017 at 09:43, STARS: 0
For those of us growing up in the 80s, Dan Rather and Peter Jennings were an every night staple. I remember not caring much about the Iran-Contra thing except that Contra was one of my favorite video games :D
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
02/15/2017 at 09:53, STARS: 1
And John Chancellor and David Brinkley before them. Two of the last great national anchors.