A friend and I got into a good-natured but heated discussion about C & H that ended in a bet. Hoping you guys can help…
He has a sticker on his car that shows Calvin holding a sign that says “Hate the sin, lover the sinner”. He says it is from a strip, I say it’s constructed for the sticker.
There’s a ten spot riding on it. Anyone?
It was not made from the strip. It was adapted from a picture of Calvin filling a water balloon in a similar pose, looking devious. He was not peeing. I could swear the SD covered it, but I can’t find the link.
oh g-d. sorry, I didn’t even read your post. if someone could delete these, that’d be nice.
I do not believe that any Calvin and Hobbes images have ever been licensed for car stickers. Which leads me to believe that any car sticker is not taken from the strip.
I also do not remember any such incident during the run of the strip.
Actually, I do remember one. Calvin’s father has come home (presumably from work) and is getting out of his car. Calvin is standing in the driveway holding up a sign that reads “Love the sinner. Hate the sin” with a nervous look on his face. Calvin’s father thinks “Uh oh…”
A quick googling leads me to believe that this strip aired on Oct. 8, 1993.
Moreover, this site has a Q-A session with Watterson where a fan asks him specifically about this strip.
Cough up that $10.
Also, all that said — of course, this sticker is totally unlicensed, as Bill Watterson has never licensed Calvin / Hobbes for any merchandising and whatnot.
That is one one my all time favorite. If I remember correctly it was a single panel strip. Now I have to flip through all the collections to find it.
Not completely true. He did license two calendars (for general sales) and one shirt (as part of a museum promotion).
Ah, I bow to your superior knowledge. I didn’t know about the shirt, but I did remember one calendar (once I thought about it). However, I think we can both agree that Watterson never licensed a “Piss on Ford” or “Calvin Praying” sticker.
You guys are great. Thanks for the link. I guess I’ll be light ten bucks today.
Steven
Not even Calvin peeing on Ford/Chevy/Dodge logos?
I thought Calvin was holding up the sign to his father when dad came home one day, thinking “Oh dear” or something.
Thank you.
Another example of an old man’s memory failing…
“Do you have any t-shirts with Calvin peein’ on Hobbes? No? What do you have him peein’ on?”- Moe Syzlak
I would never have assumed these stickers were licensed, and have heard many times that they are not licensed, but what I want to know is how is it that whoever created the “pissing Calvin” gets away with it.
A “Calvin and Hobbes” search gets me over 400 Threads and I did not see this question addressed in the first four pages, so I ask it here. A link to an old Thread would be appreciated.
Surely the image of Calvin is trademarked, here we have unauthorized use resulting in financial gain. What up?
I’ve always wanted to make a Calvin-pissing sticker, with Calvin pissing onto a Calvin-pissing sticker…
Joe
It’s clearly illegal. But Bill Watterson is a very private person and apparently has decided not to spend his retirement running around malls and flea markets issuing cease and desist orders.
Bill speaks to this somewhere - I think it’s in the 10th Anniversary book. The problem is that most of these are created by little two-bit operators, and there are loads of them. If, instead, these stickers were being generated in large quantities by a large company, I’m sure he’d go after them.
If you go here: http://www.transmogrifier.org/ch/comics/search.cgi?options=advanced and type in the “sinner sin” and select the AND option, you’ll find the strip. Do I get any of that $10?
You are correct, sir! [/Ed McMahon]