# Calvin and Hobbes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 6, 2005, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/320345 "2005-09-06T15:14:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/320345/1 "2005-09-06T15:14:28Z")
I don’t read the papers daily, but I usually get a local Sunday paper. This past Sunday, in the Tampa Tribune, to my amazement, there was a _Calvin and Hobbes_ strip. Now, to my understanding, Sam Waterson retired sometime ago and no longer publishes his strip. So, is this an amazing reversal of events? Or is some syndicate going to be re-running the old strips? Or was it just a cruel joke? ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/320345/2 "2005-09-06T15:16:40Z")
Bill Watterson, and they’re running old strips. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/320345/3 "2005-09-06T15:18:53Z")
Yeah. It just showed up in the LA Times again. Wheee! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/320345/4 "2005-09-06T15:36:26Z")
My local paper said it was a temporary thing – they’d run it for 4 months. Anyone know if another comic strip is on hiatus? ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/320345/5 "2005-09-06T15:36:50Z")
Watterson is releasing a swank three-volume complete collection of all of the C&H strips: [The Complete Calvin and Hobbes](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0740748475/qid=1126020978/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-8442198-9830414?v=glance&s=books&n=507846). So the rerun strips (which run through the end of the year) are essentially a promotional move (and also, for some papers, a break to stave off fatigue of “Classic Peanuts” reruns, as C&H is replacing Peanuts for the run). [http://www.palmbeachpost.com/accent/content/accent/epaper/2005/09/04/a1d\_calvin\_0904.html](http://www.palmbeachpost.com/accent/content/accent/epaper/2005/09/04/a1d_calvin_0904.html) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/320345/6 "2005-09-06T15:38:33Z")
I still miss C&H, you had my hopes up. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/320345/7 "2005-09-06T16:02:56Z")
Yeah, Calvin & Hobbes showed up in my local paper on Sunday. If there was an explanation, I missed it, but it was obviously a strip I’d seen before, not a new one. And in yesterday’s and today’s paper they printed the very earliest C&H’s. Rerun C&H and rerun Peanuts are still funnier than 90% of what’s on the comics page, especially the “zombie strips” that have long outived their creators or any bit of originality or humor they might once have had. Where, oh where, is the new Bill Watterson or Charles Schulz or [insert name of great cartoonist here]? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/320345/8 "2005-09-06T16:10:34Z")
> [@Thudlow Boink](#): > > Yeah, Calvin & Hobbes showed up in my local paper on Sunday. If there was an explanation, I missed it, but it was obviously a strip I’d seen before, not a new one. And in yesterday’s and today’s paper they printed the very earliest C&H’s. > > Rerun C&H and rerun Peanuts are still funnier than 90% of what’s on the comics page, especially the “zombie strips” that have long outived their creators or any bit of originality or humor they might once have had. Where, oh where, is the new Bill Watterson or Charles Schulz or [insert name of great cartoonist here]? [Foxtrot by Bill Amend](http://www.foxtrot.com/) is pretty darn good and has even taken up Calvin’s mutant snowmen from time to time. Jason is not as funny as Calvin but this has been the closest to Calvin for me. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/320345/9 "2005-09-06T16:11:17Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > Now, to my understanding, Sam Waterson retired sometime ago Nah, he’s still pitching Old Glory Robot Insurance. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/320345/10 "2005-09-06T16:11:46Z")
I kind of like Get Fuzzy. When I was in high school, I thought the guy who did Zits was living in my house. Dead on. Oh, and Foxtrot is great on Sunday. Gawd, I miss Calvin and Hobbes. “I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/320345/11 "2005-09-06T16:52:11Z")
I read the old ones on the web. There isn’t anything as classy, but Pearls before Swine approaches it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/320345/12 "2005-09-06T16:58:40Z")
As this thread is turning into “name your favorite current comic strip”, I’ll chime in to give a shout-out to **Monty** , while adding that I like and regularly read the others mentioned here as well. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/320345/13 "2005-09-06T17:02:53Z")
> [@Hung Mung](#): > > I kind of like Get Fuzzy. When I was in high school, I thought the guy who did Zits was living in my house. Dead on. > > Oh, and Foxtrot is great on Sunday. > > Gawd, I miss Calvin and Hobbes. > > “I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.” I’m down to reading just Foxtrot, Dilbert (still occasionally funny but I work in IT) and [USERFRIENDLY](http://www.userfriendly.org/static/) which would only have geek appeal but the entire run of the comic is online for free. It was nice to be able to read it from the beginning. If you’re in IT/helpdesk work then Userfriendly is a must. I read Get Fuzzy in spurts. I find it much funnier to read 2-3 weeks at once then daily. Yeah internet. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/320345/14 "2005-09-06T21:38:06Z")
Local paper is running it, but they took out “Mother Goose and Grim” ☹ ---
**Author:** ![SlyFrog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@SlyFrog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlyFrog)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/320345/15 "2005-09-06T22:52:10Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Nah, he’s still pitching Old Glory Robot Insurance. No, he retired and then died, as the robots ate his medicine for fuel. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/320345/16 "2005-09-06T23:06:34Z")
> [@SlyFrog](#): > > No, he retired and then died, as the robots ate his medicine for fuel. So the metal ones came for him, did they? Pity. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/320345/17 "2005-09-07T00:10:40Z")
Not in the suck ass Scranton Times, who suck. We’re stuck with the same old Charlie Brown. :mad: THis is the same outfit that changes the rate of a $40 obituary to a $200 ad if you want to include the name of the deceased’s only grandchild. :mad: :mad: The Scranton Times sucks. :mad: :mad: :mad: ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/320345/18 "2005-09-07T00:25:34Z")
> [@Casey1505](#): > > The Scranton Times sucks. :mad: :mad: :mad: Yeah, but it’s Scranton. If the paper didn’t suck, they’d have to move the offices to Hazleton. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/320345/19 "2005-09-07T00:28:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by **ShibbOleth** > Now, to my understanding, Sam Waterson retired sometime ago. > [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Nah, he’s still pitching Old Glory Robot Insurance. I believe he’s still on _Law & Order_, too. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/320345/20 "2005-09-07T00:45:05Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Yeah, but it’s Scranton. If the paper didn’t suck, they’d have to move the offices to Hazleton. Is the Times Leader the paper there? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/320345.md?page=2)