# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-complete-archives/525664/61 "2010-01-24T03:08:03Z")
When I began to travel to the third world in the 80’s, getting totally addicted to it, my friends could not understand the appeal. My favorite C & H appeared about this time. Calvin is doing Show and Tell in front of his class; 1." For Show and Tell I brought a little toy airplane… 1. It’s sort of ordinary, I suppose, but I like having it around… 2. It reminds me that as soon as I save a little more money, I’ll buy a ticket and put so much distance between you chumps and me, (sweeping gesture)…it will boggle your minds!" 3. (Before the principals desk, hands on hips) “It’s not an attitude, it’s a FACT !!” I have posted this comic, which I still have, on every bulletin board I’ve owned, and it’s the only thing that stays whenever the board is cleared for a fresh start! ---
**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 24, 2010, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-complete-archives/525664/62 "2010-01-24T07:22:00Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > If you know her Character, this is the BEST calvinball strip ever. Period. > > It’s still the best Calvinball strip ever, even if you don’t know her. > > _Complete Collection_ has it : > > Book 3 Page 432. > > And > > _It’s A Magical World_ Page 99. > > \*\* Rosalyn plays calvinball!\*\* – It’s the same strip as Perimieter of Wisdom, come to think of it. So I guess I second that one! > > This link here helpped me to find it. Wow, this is a great index to the entire works of Calvin and Hobbes: > [http://www.reemst.com/calvin\_and\_hobbes/stripsearch?q=&search=normal&start=0](http://www.reemst.com/calvin_and_hobbes/stripsearch?q=&search=normal&start=0) Not so helpful…☹ ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-complete-archives/525664/63 "2010-01-24T12:30:32Z")
> [@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). Yep, it’s good to see that even after all these years, Calvin & Hobbes is [still](http://xkcd.com/529/) [alive](http://xkcd.com/409/). (…or [possibly](http://www.b3ta.com/board/8141074) [not](http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/calvin2.gif). :eek: ) Well, there’s always [fanfic](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanficRecs/CalvinAndHobbes) and [insane fan theories](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WMG/CalvinAndHobbes). I suspect Calvin would approve. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-complete-archives/525664/64 "2010-01-25T00:24:50Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > Yep, it’s good to see that even after all these years, Calvin & Hobbes is [still](http://xkcd.com/529/) [alive](http://xkcd.com/409/). > > (…or [possibly](http://www.b3ta.com/board/8141074) [not](http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/calvin2.gif). :eek: ) > > Well, there’s always [fanfic](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanficRecs/CalvinAndHobbes) and [insane fan theories](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WMG/CalvinAndHobbes). I suspect Calvin would approve. Those are some good Theories. Is it bad that I knew who Mr.Bun was, with out the explanation? I wouldn’t write off the Furry theory either. (Says the user with a Disney Raccoon name.) - But the Tyler Durden one takes the cake. Here is a theory I have always had. I wonder if anyone else wonders this :: I hate to admit it, and I like Calvin a lot, but my mind goes to one specific place with an older Calvin. I am drawn there, because I can’t shake off the idea that it would probably happen. Calvin calls up Angelica [Rugrats]. [[The Age difference would work, if both are accelerated in tandem.]] Suffice to say Angelica knew exactly what she wanted to be when she grew up, and she is quite good at it.She can find a lot of boys to call her Ms.Pickles if they are nasty. And they pay her for the service. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![hobscrk777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a6a055/32.png) [@hobscrk777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hobscrk777)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-complete-archives/525664/65 "2010-01-25T01:25:32Z")
I consider myself one of the biggest Calvin and Hobbes fans on the planet (it’s the source of my user name, in fact). From[this article mentioned upthread](http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10020/1029428-51.stm?cmpid=newspanel0) - I will be buying books and books of these stamps. [Here’s a website](http://ignatz.brinkster.net/citems.html) I’ve got bookmarked that describes all the legitimate artifacts of Calvin and Hobbes - lithographs, proof sheets, two calendars, and other rare items. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-complete-archives/525664/66 "2010-01-25T01:42:22Z")
“Who wrote ‘Help I’m a bug!’ on my letter to Grandma?” “Evidently some bug. How strange.” ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-complete-archives/525664/67 "2010-01-25T05:07:09Z")
> [@hobscrk777](#): > > I consider myself one of the biggest Calvin and Hobbes fans on the planet (it’s the source of my user name, in fact). Based on : Calvin discovers a creek near his house, and he decides that since he found it, he can name it, only to discover that Hobbes got there first? yes? ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-complete-archives/525664/68 "2010-01-25T05:30:19Z")
Just dropping in to say, the printed complete archive is so great. One of my favorite purchases ever. I’ve read through it like 7 times. I still laugh hard. It’s held up surprisingly well, considering C&H began 24 years ago and ended after a decade. Plus I was only six when it started, so it’s not like some of the crap boomer comics that are treasured only for nostalgia. C&H is magnificiently hilarious. The first strips are a bit rough, but that’s to be expected for any series. Once Watterson hit his stride (and it didn’t take more than a year or two) they’re all solid gold. Funny, subversive, beautifully drawn. It’s funny to damn and bless an artist in the same sentence; Damn Watterson for not doing more, God bless him for quitting at his peak. He walked away from C&H at its apex. That takes guts and honesty. I respect him for that. I just wish there was more. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-complete-archives/525664/69 "2010-01-25T16:24:36Z")
> [@hobscrk777](#): > > From[this article mentioned upthread](http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10020/1029428-51.stm?cmpid=newspanel0) - I will be buying books and books of these stamps. Keep in mind that if you do, you’ll also have books and books of Archie, Garfield, Beetle Bailey, and Dennis the Menace stamps as well- they’re being honored on the set alongside Calvin and Hobbes. Thanks in part to the Martell book, thanks in part to a reference I made to a friend, I’ve started to rediscover Calvin and Hobbes. I’ve always loved it, but I think I’m appreciating Watterson’s humor and genius now more than ever. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-complete-archives/525664.md?page=3)