# Calvin & Hobbes' snowman strips **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 26, 2005, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-hobbes-snowman-strips/337250 "2005-12-26T14:22:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-hobbes-snowman-strips/337250/1 "2005-12-26T14:22:59Z")
I found this page featuring all of Calvin’s snowman sculptures. Some of the funniest stuff ever drawn. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-hobbes-snowman-strips/337250/2 "2005-12-26T14:42:11Z")
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. \ ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-hobbes-snowman-strips/337250/3 "2005-12-26T14:58:50Z")
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! ---
**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:** [December 26, 2005, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-hobbes-snowman-strips/337250/4 "2005-12-26T16:17:15Z")
Not to gloat or anything, but [guess what I got for Christmas](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0740748475/qid=1135613793/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-9832379-1259249?n=507846&s=books&v=glance)… ---
**Author:** ![lalaith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@lalaith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lalaith)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-hobbes-snowman-strips/337250/5 "2005-12-26T17:33:52Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Not to gloat or anything, but [guess what I got for Christmas](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0740748475/qid=1135613793/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-9832379-1259249?n=507846&s=books&v=glance)… Yeah, those are beautiful. I’ve got all the individual books, but I’ll admit I found the collection tempting. ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-hobbes-snowman-strips/337250/6 "2005-12-26T17:42:23Z")
> [@lalaith](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-hobbes-snowman-strips/337250/7 "2005-12-27T02:16:07Z")
“Your snowmen lead tragic lives.” “Well, they’re not very bright.” Classic. ---
**Author:** ![autobulb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@autobulb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/autobulb)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-hobbes-snowman-strips/337250/8 "2005-12-27T03:27:25Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![lalaith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@lalaith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lalaith)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-hobbes-snowman-strips/337250/9 "2005-12-27T04:08:07Z")
> [@autobulb](#): > > 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 ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-hobbes-snowman-strips/337250/10 "2005-12-27T04:35:09Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-hobbes-snowman-strips/337250/11 "2005-12-27T04:48:14Z")
- Last edited by samclem : Today at 10:43 PM. Reason: deleted link–copyright issues\* :eek: ---
**Author:** ![manx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@manx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manx)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-hobbes-snowman-strips/337250/12 "2005-12-27T04:53:36Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Not to gloat or anything, but [guess what I got for Christmas](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0740748475/qid=1135613793/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-9832379-1259249?n=507846&s=books&v=glance)… Gah, even with my discount, these were still too expensive. It might be my leaving present to myself… ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-hobbes-snowman-strips/337250/13 "2005-12-27T05:06:17Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![autobulb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@autobulb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/autobulb)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-hobbes-snowman-strips/337250/14 "2005-12-27T11:33:43Z")
Thanks lalaith for that list. I’m really determined to find it. ---
**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:** [December 27, 2005, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-hobbes-snowman-strips/337250/15 "2005-12-27T14:05:02Z")
A Tribute of sorts from [http://www.foxtrot.com/](http://www.foxtrot.com/) Jim ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-hobbes-snowman-strips/337250/16 "2005-12-27T22:06:55Z")
> [@jrfranchi](#): > > A Tribute of sorts from [http://www.foxtrot.com/](http://www.foxtrot.com/) 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.