I found this page featuring all of Calvin’s snowman sculptures.
Some of the funniest stuff ever drawn.
Calvin and Hobbes was, without a doubt, the funniest comic strip on a day to day basis. The snowmen were some of Watterson’s best work. Boy do I miss his strip. The funny pages haven’t been the same at all since he left. <sigh>
I used to buy the newspaper for three things; sports, TV listing, and Calvin’s daily (sometimes hourly) adventures.
I haven’t subscribd for about a decade now and only sometimes buy a Sunday or Monday paper.
Watterson had a way of producing a story line which was amusing and entertaining for several days in a row, and was still able to make some of the funniest visuals or dialogue ever in a single strip of the extended story line. The Kiler Monster Snow Goons has several examples of this, imho. So did the duplicator strips. Nobody seems able to do this any more. The ‘stories’ are lame, whole days are sacrificed to the unfunny gods to set up the next week’s crap, absurd situational humour is not even attempted.
Yeah… ALL HAIL CALVIN & HOBBES!
Not to gloat or anything, but guess what I got for Christmas…
Yeah, those are beautiful. I’ve got all the individual books, but I’ll admit I found the collection tempting.
Jayjay was a very very good bear this year. We both love the strips and I just could not resist the idea.
“Your snowmen lead tragic lives.”
“Well, they’re not very bright.”
Classic.
I hope this is not too off topic. Has anyone ever seen a drawing of Hobbes sitting down with his feet sticking out to the side, looking at the reader and smiling really widely while giving the ‘OK’ symbol with his hand? I thought I saw it somewhere and have been looking everywhere but I can’t seem to find it. I hope I didn’t imagine it.
I remember it being on one of the first pages of a collection book, usually where there’s a picture of him or Calvin doing something, with no text.
You know that’s familiar to me as well. I just did a quick pass through all my books and couldn’t find it in the front or back. That doesn’t mean anything because I have several of the treasuries which are a combination of two separate books. Could be the picture you’re describing is in one of the individual books.
The books I checked are:
The Indispensable C&H (Revenge of the Baby-Sat and Scientific Progress Goes Boink)
The Authoritative C&H (Yukon Ho! and Weirdos from Another Planet)
The Essential C&H (Calvin and Hobbes and Something Under the Bed is Drooling)
C&H Lazy Sunday Book
The Days Are Just Packed
Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat
There’s Treasure Everywhere
C&H 10th Anniversary Book
It’s a Magical World
Perhaps if someone has the individual books underlined above, they can give them a quick check for you.
And I just realized I’m missing one book. I shall have to get Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons
Well, it is not in Scientific Progress Goes “Boink” or Revenge of the Babysat,* and I know we have the Snow Goons somewhere but progress is slow. (Because I am getting sucked into reading them, that’s why.)
On the plus side, going through my kid’s room to find them I unearthed a library book that is way overdue. It could have sat there for another year.
*Unless I missed itbecause I got distracted by reading…
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:eek:
Gah, even with my discount, these were still too expensive. It might be my leaving present to myself…
I once made a snowgoon, right out of that day’s strip, in my parent’s backyard. It had two heads, three arms, two sets of buttons meeting in a V, and so on. A lady walking her little girl stopped to stare at it, and instead of asking what it was, said “Oh! You’re making a snow goon!” C&H was so popular that my creation was a celebrity, not an oddity.
Thanks lalaith for that list. I’m really determined to find it.
A Tribute of sorts from http://www.foxtrot.com/
Jim
I took this one as a gentle slap at the C&H new magnum opus, which of course has no new strips in it. I spent 8 years of my childhood as a friend of Watterson’s, and consider myelf to be very supportive of him, and I still didn’t buy the new one.