Calvin & Hobbes

[Timminz]

I've loved this comic, for many years. Today, StumbleUpon brought me to 25 Great Calvin & Hobbes Strips. Each strip has an explanation from the guys who made the site, about why that particular strip is so great. It must be tough to pick a shortlist when faced with the huge amount of greatness that is the Calvin & Hobbes collection, but these guys seems to have done a decent job of capturing a lot of what really made the series so great.

[Symmetry]

I've loved this comic, for many years. Today, StumbleUpon brought me to 25 Great Calvin & Hobbes Strips. Each strip has an explanation from the guys who made the site, about why that particular strip is so great. It must be tough to pick a shortlist when faced with the huge amount of greatness that is the Calvin & Hobbes collection, but these guys seems to have done a decent job of capturing a lot of what really made the series so great.

Awesome- I like the simple strips the best:

[Incandenza]

[Timminz]

I've loved this comic, for many years. Today, StumbleUpon brought me to 25 Great Calvin & Hobbes Strips. Each strip has an explanation from the guys who made the site, about why that particular strip is so great. It must be tough to pick a shortlist when faced with the huge amount of greatness that is the Calvin & Hobbes collection, but these guys seems to have done a decent job of capturing a lot of what really made the series so great.

Awesome- I like the simple strips the best:

That's one of my personal faves, as well. I always get a good belly-laugh from it, no matter how many times I read it.

[john9blue]

lol... Calvin and Hobbes goes meta.

[Snorri1234]

This has been my desktop background for like, years.

[thegreekdog]

I own every single C&H compilation. By far the best comic strip in history.

That being said, Fox Trot is in a similar vein.

Anyway, comparing the usual comic strip fare to C&H is like comparing "See Spot Run" to "War and Peace."

[khazalid]

awesome. cheers timmy!

[danansan]

Last year I bought the Complete Calvin & Hobbes (cost me fifty odd quid but absolutely worth it), containing every Calvin & Hobbes strip ever. This has inspired me to reread it for the nth time, so cheers for bringing this up.

[Snorri1234]

Last year I bought the Complete Calvin & Hobbes (cost me fifty odd quid but absolutely worth it), containing every Calvin & Hobbes strip ever. This has inspired me to reread it for the nth time, so cheers for bringing this up.

50 quid? Here it's 100 euros. Which I don't have.

[thegreekdog]

Last year I bought the Complete Calvin & Hobbes (cost me fifty odd quid but absolutely worth it), containing every Calvin & Hobbes strip ever. This has inspired me to reread it for the nth time, so cheers for bringing this up.

50 quid? Here it's 100 euros. Which I don't have.

Too many taxes.

[Snorri1234]

Last year I bought the Complete Calvin & Hobbes (cost me fifty odd quid but absolutely worth it), containing every Calvin & Hobbes strip ever. This has inspired me to reread it for the nth time, so cheers for bringing this up.

50 quid? Here it's 100 euros. Which I don't have.

Too many taxes.

More than britain?

I think it has to do with shipping and stuff like that. it's only like 20 euros more.

[JoshyBoy]

I love Calvin and Hobbes.

[Incandenza]

The complete collection has been on my amazon shopping list for some time now, never quite seem to pull the trigger on it because I still have a bunch of the old paperback collections which I pull out from time to time, so it's a little hard for me to justify the c-note.

What still amazes me about C&H is how strong the strip was even up to the very end. One of my all-time favorite storylines was a very late one, where Calvin and Rosalyn finally bond over a game of Calvinball. Great great stuff.

[keiths31]

Agreed C&H was great. Smart and funny. Nothing else even compares or will. I agree with another poster saying that Fox Trot is good. My current favourite is Pearls Before Swine. It isn't run in the local daily so I have to read it online. But it is the only comic that makes me laugh day to day.

[notyou2]

My friend used to have his parents send him this cartoon from the Sunday paper in Massachusetts to him at university in Canada back in the early 80's.

I have been a fan for many years. I also learned to love Doonesbury.

[Minister Masket]

The only comic strip out there that really makes you question the world around you.

[PLAYER57832]

I've loved this comic, for many years. Today, StumbleUpon brought me to 25 Great Calvin & Hobbes Strips. Each strip has an explanation from the guys who made the site, about why that particular strip is so great. It must be tough to pick a shortlist when faced with the huge amount of greatness that is the Calvin & Hobbes collection, but these guys seems to have done a decent job of capturing a lot of what really made the series so great.

Awesome- I like the simple strips the best:

That's one of my personal faves, as well. I always get a good belly-laugh from it, no matter how many times I read it.

Calvin and Hobbes and the Far Side are a fair tie in my mind. I even liked Sponge Bob.. waaay back. He had a lot of almost Calvin and Hobbes type humor before he went commercial. (sorry, no samples... they were lost long ago in a move .. )

Anyway, I loved the comics. I have to say I did not think much of the commentary in that link. They kept trying to put all sorts of "deep meainings". You know what? Calvin is a fairly typical, slightly more creative than usual, 6 year old.. and the world from a six year old's eyes is a lot clearer than many adults. Analyzing it too deeply is where adults go wrong. (and yes, that most definitely applies to me! ..lol)