I would kill to have a beer with Pastis and Watterson…
Wait, he did this for charity.
Ok, the plan!
1> Win the Lottery
2> Offer $$$ to the charities of their choices for lunch together.
3> 
And I would like to have a bottle of wine with Richard Wagner.
:rolleyes:
I’ve always loved this Robot Chicken spoof:
I think that was intentional - in the first strip, Libby actual comments “first try”. Took her a day to hit her stride.
OK. I laughed my ass off!
I just spotted my Calvin & Hobbes books the other day when looking for something else and thought about digging them out. Definitely going to now. It would be so awesome if Bill started drawing again.
My other favorite is Dan Pirarro, who writes the Bizarro strip. Does anyone else follow it? I used to read it in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, then stumbled across the books at the local bookstore and bought them all over time. I love how this guy can tell an entire story just with the posture and expressions of the characters. Plus he’s into Tromp l’oeil, and weird 60’s style furniture and incorporates both into a lot of strips.
In a similar vein, Pastis’ commented on how everyone was consoling his wife for their comic strip break-up, but no one consoled him. IRL, they are still together.
Cool.
I follow it, and find it occasionally amusing.
Speaking of comics, why the reruns on Doonesbury?
This article has the comics. Great surprise seeing Stephan Pastis’ drawings again.
Third. After Krazy Kat and Pogo
You young whippersnapper! The Beatles were huge in 1976, especially in America. Paul McCartney embarked on the first high-profile Wings tour, which was the big concert news of the year. As a group, the Beatles got to #2 for two weeks with a cheaply packaged compilation of previously released material (Rock and Roll Music). Why not #1? Because McCartney had that position sewed up all summer with Wings at the Speed of Sound (not even one of Wings’ better records, but it managed to dislodge the monstrously successful Frampton Comes Alive from the top spot). The Beatles also hit the Top 10 of the singles charts with a reissue of a ten-year-old song (“Got to Get You into My Life”). And yes, the public still yearned for a reunion, rumors of which were perennial.
^ Yeah, what Biffy said! And get off the lawn!
Pogo yes, but Krazy Kat? He is currently on a catnip binge. I’ve never understood the popularity, though I read it. Surrealistic backgrounds, the eternal conflict between Mouse and Officer Pup.
Every now and then I check out Pogo because of all the praise it gets. I always leaves me flat.
You’d probably have to be in the age group 60-80 to appreciate how good it was at the time.
It was the Doonesbury/Calvin and Hobbes of it’s generation.
Calvin and Hobbes is timeless. I don’t think you have to be from a certain generation to appreciate it.
I think you’re pretty spot on with that age group. I’m 54 and, sad to say, I don’t get it (not for lack of trying).
BTW–the third chick in the “bathing beauty” strip is probably Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.
I hope you’re right; but I wonder whether today’s kids can relate to the kind of childhood Calvin had, with endless hours spent in unstructured play outside with no one but a tiger for a companion, and no electronics that aren’t made out of a cardboard box.
I recall that during the 1960’s there was a Pogo bit where a bulldog, obviously J. Edgar Hoover, was planting listening devices. He recruited spiders to hide as astrix on printed sheets. When his minion pointed out that they had eight legs, he cut two of them off.