25 Years

[Candy_Kane54]

Do you realize that it's been 25 years since the last Calvin and Hobbes strip was printed?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/KTEK4ICKB4I6XF5WJ247OL7UNM.jpg&w=916

I wonder what they found ...

 

[gordo12]

I loved Calvin and Hobbes. The decline of the newspaper industry certainly hasn't been kind to comics.

 

[SamScribble]

It's now coming up for 65 years since the last Pip, Squeak and Wilfred - a dog, a penguin, and a baby long-eared rabbit - appeared in the Daily Mirror.

 

[horrorotic]

One of my favs growing up. I have a couple of the trade paper back collections.
I miss the Sunday funnies.

 

[Erlikkhan]

I always felt I was a Calvin at heart. Now that he has come of age, I wonder if he ever nailed Susie. I feel a story forming in my head...

 

[NotWise]

One of my favs growing up. I have a couple of the trade paper back collections.
I miss the Sunday funnies.

They still print the Sunday funnies, and the weekday funnies, too. All you have to do is spring for the paper.

You can also find the comics online -- but not Calvin and Hobbs. I think Bloom County still exists in some form, and -- for reasons I don't understand -- Peanuts will live forever. I still mourn the loss of Pogo, but that happened long ago.

 

[BelleCanzuto]

I always felt I was a Calvin at heart. Now that he has come of age, I wonder if he ever nailed Susie. I feel a story forming in my head...

You just won't be able to post it here...

 

[TarnishedPenny]

They still print the Sunday funnies, and the weekday funnies, too. All you have to do is spring for the paper.

You can also find the comics online -- but not Calvin and Hobbs. I think Bloom County still exists in some form, and -- for reasons I don't understand -- Peanuts will live forever. I still mourn the loss of Pogo, but that happened long ago.

Ah, Pogo! The medieval Everyman brought back to life. My father had almost a shelf-yard of Pogo books. I still look through them and smile at the genius of Walt Kelly.

And I do miss Calvin and Hobbs, too.

 

[AlexBailey]

I miss Spaceman Spiff and the battle against the Nagon mothership.

 

[YDB95]

I have the complete Calvin and Hobbes set and I still read it quite a bit.
As much as I miss it, I think Watterson was right to end it when he did. It was fresh and hilarious right down to the end, with no subpar product to dilute its legacy.

 

[B_Couric]

Strangely I didn't remember the end, I was grown up by then, (and it was associated with those ridiculous peeing window stickers) but as a kid I remember when it started.

 

[AlexBailey]

Strangely I didn't remember the end, I was grown up by then, (and it was associated with those ridiculous peeing window stickers) but as a kid I remember when it started.

I hate those stickers. I wonder how Watterson felt about them.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_Calvin_1509_to_1564.jpg

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Hobbes_(portrait).jpg

 

[LexxRuthless]

The same year Bill Watterson decided to call it a career, so did Gary Larson. We lost Calvin and Hobbes and The Far Side in 1995. I always thought there was one last, big-money book if Watterson had wanted to do it - make a collection of all those marvelous winter cartoons, add just a few new ones, and call it a "Holiday Special." Those were always my favorites; the ones where Calvin made all those horrible snow sculptures in their front lawn.

If we'd had a son instead of a daughter, we had planned to name our firstborn Calvin. And of course he'd have to have a stuffed tiger...

 

[Bramblethorn]

I loved Calvin and Hobbes. The decline of the newspaper industry certainly hasn't been kind to comics.

The Web, OTOH, has been great for them.

 

[Bramblethorn]

The same year Bill Watterson decided to call it a career, so did Gary Larson.

https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff

 

[horrorotic]

They still print the Sunday funnies, and the weekday funnies, too. All you have to do is spring for the paper.

You can also find the comics online -- but not Calvin and Hobbs. I think Bloom County still exists in some form, and -- for reasons I don't understand -- Peanuts will live forever. I still mourn the loss of Pogo, but that happened long ago.

They exist, issue is the funnies are no longer funny. A lot of the new strips are meh.

Bloom County is an acquired taste, Bill The Cat will live forever.

I follow the new Peanuts as well as Snoopy on Twitter and Schultz Jr isn't his dad. I think I follow and look at the cartoons for nostalgia more than there good. That and snoopy never fails to make me smile even if its just a picture of him doing nothing.

 

[Rustyoznail]

https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff

Thanks for the link. I'm happy to recycle a cartoon or so from 15 years of his work.

 

[PennameWombat]

They exist, issue is the funnies are no longer funny. A lot of the new strips are meh.

Bloom County is an acquired taste, Bill The Cat will live forever.

I follow the new Peanuts as well as Snoopy on Twitter and Schultz Jr isn't his dad. I think I follow and look at the cartoons for nostalgia more than there good. That and snoopy never fails to make me smile even if its just a picture of him doing nothing.

I was always a full member of the Bill the Cat fan club.

Tomorrow... tomorrow... I’ll kill ya tomorrow!

I was a fan of The Far Side as well. Doonesbury off and on through the years, but haven’t paid much attention to it since GW Bush’s time.

Maybe it was my age, I was never a fan of Calvin and Hobbes. Early in my young teens I had almost all of the B.C. paperback collections but at some point years later going through old books I wondered what I’d ever seen in it!

I also had a hardback Peanuts Treasury collection of classic strips but somewhere along the way I lost it.

My current favorite is Pearls Before Swine. I have to admit to a bit of sympathy for Rat’s attitude in today’s strip... Pearls Before Swine-2021/01/07.

 

[sirhugs]

I once had a GF who I sent a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon every morning... maybe that ended because I stopped?

 

[LexxRuthless]

They exist, issue is the funnies are no longer funny. A lot of the new strips are meh.

Bloom County is an acquired taste, Bill The Cat will live forever.

I follow the new Peanuts as well as Snoopy on Twitter and Schultz Jr isn't his dad. I think I follow and look at the cartoons for nostalgia more than there good. That and snoopy never fails to make me smile even if its just a picture of him doing nothing.

If you haven't read any of it, I think Get Fuzzy may be the best comic going these days. He's online now, https://www.gocomics.com/getfuzzy/2021/01/02, https://www.gocomics.com/getfuzzy/2021/01/05.

I bought the very first collection because the main (human) character looked like Steve from Bloom County. I find Darby's stuff much funnier most of the time than Bloom County was.