# Death Of Calvin And Hobbes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 22, 2011, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-calvin-and-hobbes/597224 "2011-09-22T18:17:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-calvin-and-hobbes/597224/41 "2011-09-22T21:13:46Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Francis Bacon was a philosopher as were John Calvin And Thomas Hobbes. Ninjaed by the person who asked the question. That must be humiliating beyond measure. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-calvin-and-hobbes/597224/42 "2011-09-22T21:19:17Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > I hate to be this kind of jack ass, but I have to admit that while I appreciate the linked grown up Calvin strip, I kind of feel like Watterson’s magic is so unique that when others try to honor it, they miss it by thismuch and it is probably better to allow him to own the right to end his strip the way he did. You are right, and that’s why I usually dislike this sort of thing. But I think this strip really got the spirit - as well as the artistic style - of the original. It isn’t authentic C&H, but it’s close enough to make me smile. You’re not a jackass, by the way. You’re not the only one, **YoSaffBridge** - I didn’t get the Bacon reference, either. ---
**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 22, 2011, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-calvin-and-hobbes/597224/43 "2011-09-22T21:19:26Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Ninjaed by the person who asked the question. That must be humiliating beyond measure. Don’t worry, Skald. We make allowances for you. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-calvin-and-hobbes/597224/44 "2011-09-22T21:48:57Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > I hate to be this kind of jack ass, but I have to admit that while I appreciate the linked grown up Calvin strip, I kind of feel like Watterson’s magic is so unique that when others try to honor it, they miss it by thismuch and it is probably better to allow him to own the right to end his strip the way he did. Jackass? No way. You said you appreciated it, but with reservations. I agree with everything you said. The “two 26 years later” one-offs were fun, and made me feel surprisingly sentimental, but should go no further. Anyway- if they did decide to run with it, I’m sure Watterson would have it stopped. . ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-calvin-and-hobbes/597224/45 "2011-09-22T22:04:51Z")
I like Hobbes and Bacon, but am I the only one who liked the Lio strip better? ---
**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 22, 2011, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-calvin-and-hobbes/597224/46 "2011-09-22T22:07:40Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > I like Hobbes and Bacon, but am I the only one who liked the Lio strip better? Nope. ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-calvin-and-hobbes/597224/47 "2011-09-22T22:39:47Z")
All the strips cited so far will be added to my **The Complete Calvin And Hobbes**. Now if I can just find links to the two or three strips which for some reason were not included in the three volume set. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-calvin-and-hobbes/597224/48 "2011-09-22T22:44:44Z")
[http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/05\_10\_2011/hobbes-and-bacon](http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/05_10_2011/hobbes-and-bacon) And the next strip. Easier to see and read than the other link. ---
**Author:** ![JoelUpchurch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@JoelUpchurch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoelUpchurch)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-calvin-and-hobbes/597224/49 "2011-09-22T23:19:01Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > Wow. We do miss them, don’t we? > Thanks in no small part to Watterson wrapping it up when he did, C&H will be terrific forever. > > Time to dig out all the books and read them yet again. What! You don’t have the complete three volume edition? ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-calvin-and-hobbes/597224/50 "2011-09-22T23:33:26Z")
Calvin and Hobbes, plus Bloom County. Two of my faves of all times. Both mourned. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-calvin-and-hobbes/597224/51 "2011-09-23T00:53:28Z")
I’m expecting a baby boy any day now, and just got the three volume set in the mail: I’ve wanted it for years, but the baby cinched it: if we have a child, it’s essential that it be lying around the house so that he has a chance to stumble on it when he’s the right age. I didn’t want to wait and buy it when it’s appropriate because I don’t want him to think it’s for him: I want it to be something he discovers, organically. That may well not work out, of course, but in any case I am glad to have the set. But I want to give it a shot. Calvin and Hobbes affected me very deeply growing up and it just seems like it needs to be around in any house with children. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-calvin-and-hobbes/597224/52 "2011-09-23T01:11:51Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > Mars is amazing[!](http://video.adultswim.com/robot-chicken/happy-birthday-calvin.html) I almost missed this - the exclamation point above is a link, folks. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-calvin-and-hobbes/597224/53 "2011-09-23T01:22:36Z")
I don’t know how much Watterson made from that strip, but one thing is certain: you can’t measure in dollars how much enjoyment his work provided for so very many people. ---
**Author:** ![LaurenIpsum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@LaurenIpsum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LaurenIpsum)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-calvin-and-hobbes/597224/54 "2011-09-23T01:26:46Z")
I was a senior in high school when the strip ended, and I was so sad about it. I remember reading in the “Calvin & Hobbes 10th Anniversary Book” that Watterson didn’t like the restrictions of newspapers, and having to be funny on a deadline, and I think he had alluded to those reasons when announcing that the strip would end. So I somehow just assumed that this meant he would start writing Calvin & Hobbes books, rather than a daily strip. I was so disappointed when such books never materialized. ---
**Author:** ![Lilacs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Lilacs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lilacs)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-calvin-and-hobbes/597224/55 "2011-09-23T01:32:27Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Sigh, so much ignorance so little time. I thought everyone knew that Calvin grew up and became a [triathlete janitor](http://www.gocomics.com/frazz/?ref=comics). First thing I thought when I started reading Frazz. But…I miss Hobbes. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-calvin-and-hobbes/597224/56 "2011-09-23T01:33:50Z")
> [@JoelUpchurch](#): > > What! You don’t have the complete three volume edition? No need. The three volume edition doesn’t contain anything I don’t already have. As far as I know. . ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-calvin-and-hobbes/597224/57 "2011-09-23T02:03:43Z")
Of course, there’s [The Onion’s take on the end of Calvin and Hobbes…](http://www.theonion.com/articles/bill-watterson-writes-illustrates-shreds-new-calvi,21240/) ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-calvin-and-hobbes/597224/58 "2011-09-23T02:16:01Z")
I always liked to think of Calvin growing up to become the next generation’s Isaac Asimov. He earned his PhD for discovering a new kind of dinosaur that makes T.Rex look like a wimp, then became a popular and critically acclaimed writer with a string of books, both fiction and nonfiction. ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-calvin-and-hobbes/597224/59 "2011-09-23T02:43:54Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > I like Hobbes and Bacon, but am I the only one who liked the Lio strip better? I really like Lio, so yes that was my favorite of the thread. I have to say that Calvin and Hobbes is still really popular here in the children’s department of my library. The books get read to death and replaced and read to death again. It gladdens my heart to see kids appreciating C&H. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-calvin-and-hobbes/597224/60 "2011-09-23T02:44:27Z")
(With head hanging low.) Nobody told me. I didn’t know. For the second time tonight I think I need to go lie down… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-calvin-and-hobbes/597224.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-calvin-and-hobbes/597224.md?page=4)