Tyrannosaurs in F-14s?

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 01/04/2015 at 10:33 • Filed to: calvin & Hobbes

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Tyrannosaurs in F-14s. I like the way Calvin thinks.

PS9 > ttyymmnn 01/04/2015 at 10:36

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Michael Bay: The Early Years

ttyymmnn > PS9 01/04/2015 at 10:38

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b33g33 > ttyymmnn 01/04/2015 at 10:40

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I see someone else bought the entire set for $1.99 each during the kindle sale!

Agrajag > ttyymmnn 01/04/2015 at 10:43

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When he did strips like these you could really see how skilled of a cartoonist he is.

ttyymmnn > Agrajag 01/04/2015 at 10:57

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Absolutely. And it's also interesting to see him stick his finger in the eye of the newspaper publishers. For Sunday comics, publishers would often chop off the top row to fit more comics into the paper. That's why so many of Watterson's (and other's) Sunday strips have a throwaway gag in the first two panels. Watterson fought back by making his Sunday comics in layouts that couldn't be broken up. Hence the large boxes or odd layouts that made it impossible to run the strip in any way other than he wanted.

Enginerrrrrrrrr > ttyymmnn 01/04/2015 at 11:17

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Also Calvin learning life lessons with his F-4

Agrajag > ttyymmnn 01/04/2015 at 11:19

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He certainly took it seriously as an art form, and was smart to utilize its popularity to do what he wanted. I don't think any other cartoonist could get away with doing that now, as there is no strip today as popular as Calvin and Hobbes was, and publishers knew if they screwed with it there would be trouble.