# Calvin and Hobbes... complete archives? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 20, 2010, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-complete-archives/525664 "2010-01-20T05:35:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-complete-archives/525664/21 "2010-01-21T00:30:24Z")
C: I wish my life had a rewind button. H: I wish your life had a mute button. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-complete-archives/525664/22 "2010-01-21T00:36:36Z")
My favorites are the snowman and one where they keep zapping each other with a transmogrifier. Great stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-complete-archives/525664/23 "2010-01-21T00:38:33Z")
[Here’s](http://progressiveboink.com/archive/calvinhobbes.htm) a site where someone has managed to capture a lot of my favorites. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-complete-archives/525664/24 "2010-01-21T02:14:09Z")
The second duplicate storyline was my fave, out of many of course. Having a pure-of-heart clone to play off of Calvin & his massive egotism was sheer unadulterated genius. [Wouldn’t dare spoil this for someone even at this late date:] [spoiler][It comes to pass that the duplicate, naturally, has developed a big crush on Suzie:] “Doesn’t he know she’s a GIRL?” “Oh, I think he’s figured that out. Last I saw he was cutting red hearts out of construction paper.” “ACK! ACK! ACK!” And, at the end, when the clone has an evil thought and thus disappears in a puff of smoke, Hobbes deadpans: “Another casualty of applied metaphysics.” That line is sooo funny on so many levels; it still makes me laugh (as in right now) each time I read/think of it.[/spoiler] Stuff like that just writes itself, as Watterson himself explains somewhere in one of the essays in the collection. ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-complete-archives/525664/25 "2010-01-21T04:50:58Z")
One place you can find the complete C&H collection is on my PC’s hard drive. Oh, you don’t have access to that, do you? Sucks to be you! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-complete-archives/525664/26 "2010-01-21T05:22:54Z")
I can’t imagine this guy has approval to host the entire archive, but he sure does, with the option to download the whole deal as a ZIP file: ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-complete-archives/525664/27 "2010-01-21T15:10:52Z")
[What if Hobbes was real and Calvin was stuffed?](http://www.pvponline.com/2010/01/04/my-buddy-and-me/) [page 2](http://www.pvponline.com/2010/01/05/double-indemnity-claws/) [page 3](http://www.pvponline.com/2010/01/06/schrodingers-brat/) [page 4](http://www.pvponline.com/2010/01/07/stairway-to-heck/) [page 5](http://www.pvponline.com/2010/01/08/scratch-and-stitch/) ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-complete-archives/525664/28 "2010-01-21T16:38:37Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > Every snowman strip was my absolute favorite. My favorites, too. Living in Florida I miss having snow in the winter only because I would love to be able to make some Calvin snow people. I was looking for the definitive collection to get as a present for my sister for Christmas but that’s a bit out of my gift price range. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-complete-archives/525664/29 "2010-01-21T16:46:06Z")
[“…or I’ll clean your clock.”](http://dontknockmysmock.com/) ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-complete-archives/525664/30 "2010-01-21T18:07:50Z")
I’ve always enjoyed the ones where he’s an art critic, making snowmans or dinosaurs in rocket ships. I find myself quoting those when I go to art museums. ---
**Author:** ![A.Selene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ec8ea/32.png) [@A.Selene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A.Selene)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-complete-archives/525664/31 "2010-01-21T18:44:18Z")
My favorite is when he’s sitting in the bath, complaining about it as usual: Calvin (paraphrased): Is this how one of the possibly greatest men on earth should be treated? (For sure): “My likely historical significance is a terrible burden.” ---
**Author:** ![Vimp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vimp/32/4186_2.png) [@Vimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vimp)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-complete-archives/525664/32 "2010-01-21T21:26:32Z")
“Nice going Maurice.” ---
**Author:** ![Zjestika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8edcca/32.png) [@Zjestika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zjestika)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-complete-archives/525664/33 "2010-01-21T21:59:46Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > Your link isn’t working for me **Rafe**. > > **[This](http://davidguy.brinkster.net/goaste/lasteevercalvinstrip.html)** my favorite strip despite not being real (make sure to click on the image also). I opened this link in a new tab but didn’t look at it because of the tab title. You’re not really linking goatse are you? I have vowed to live my whole life never seeing that. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-complete-archives/525664/34 "2010-01-21T22:00:55Z")
> [@Zjestika](#): > > I opened this link in a new tab but didn’t look at it because of the tab title. You’re not really linking goatse are you? I have vowed to live my whole life never seeing that. Imagine what would have happened to the strip if Calvin had started taking Ritalin. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-complete-archives/525664/35 "2010-01-21T22:15:33Z")
I own the full collection listed on Amazon, and there are two strips shown here that I don’t remember. The one about the smock, and “Virtue needs some cheaper thrills.” Am I just not remembering them, or are there strips that exist outside of that collection? ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-complete-archives/525664/36 "2010-01-21T23:07:38Z")
Another vote for snow sculpture. [http://www.davecarlson.net/funny/calvin-hobbes.htm](http://www.davecarlson.net/funny/calvin-hobbes.htm) [http://www.angelfire.com/wa/zzaran/calvin.html](http://www.angelfire.com/wa/zzaran/calvin.html) ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-complete-archives/525664/37 "2010-01-21T23:12:12Z")
> [@LateComer](#): > > Strangely I ran across [this article this morning about a guy trying to write a Bill Watterson biography](http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10020/1029428-51.stm?cmpid=newspanel0) after reading your thread. Not just trying- he wrote it. It’s a very interesting book, talking about Watterson’s upbringing and how it related to the strip, and his famous reluctance to license the characters and his opinions on the comic strip industry. The author talked to a lot of people who knew Watterson and even attempted to track down the reclusive cartoonist himself. He didn’t get to, but he did get to talk to Watterson’s mother. Random Calvin and Hobbes favorites: -Any long storyline involving Calvin in school. These always seem to be comedy gold: Stupendous Man taking a test, his report on bats (“BATS AREN’T BUGS!”), the poster contest (“Be careful or be roadkill!”), doing a report with Susie (“Mercury was the god of flowers, which is why today he is a registered trademark of FTD Florists. Why they named a planet after this guy, I can’t imagine.”)…funny stuff. -“What’s a pronoun?” “A noun which no longer has amateur status.” -Calvin having to sing an overly long “Tigers are great” song in order to prove he is a member of G.R.O.S.S. (Get Rid of Slimy girlS) to get back into the clubhouse. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-complete-archives/525664/38 "2010-01-21T23:23:08Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > The thing about _Calvin and Hobbes_ was that, like its protagonists, it straddled two worlds. A world-weary cynicism about human nature was married to a childlike appreciation for the absurd – and a childlike enthusiasm that counterbalanced Watterson’s sardonic view of adult human nature. When Calvin was excited about something, he was _all the way_ excited, pure little kid. These days most all you see of Calvin is taking a leak on various pick-up trucks. It’s sort of disheartening. Even though I knew that image is so far from the content of the strip, I was still surprised by how much innocence and sense of wonder was part of Calvin’s character when I revisited the strip some months ago. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-complete-archives/525664/39 "2010-01-21T23:24:13Z")
Has anyone mentioned Calvinball yet? I loved that game. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-complete-archives/525664/40 "2010-01-21T23:33:00Z")
> [@Rafe\_Hollister](#): > > [http://www.chase3000.com/userpages/calvinhobbes/](http://www.chase3000.com/userpages/calvinhobbes/) > :smack: You just brightened my afternoon. The one with the Snowdad (with Dad’s glasses) holding a whip over SnowCalvin made me LOL, right here at work. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-complete-archives/525664.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-complete-archives/525664.md?page=3)