Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995
Hallelujah!!!
Very cool. Very very cool.
Man, I’m starved for some NEW Calvin & Hobbes strips, though. The title of this thread just made me realize that. Where is all of Watterson’s creative energy going now that he’s not writing and drawing the strip?
I guess I’ll have to get this book. But… dangit Bill! Why not release some new strips! If they came dstraight to book, you wouldn’t have to worry about those size restrictions newspapaers have, et cetera.
Pretty please, Bill???
I second that emotion.
Also, could you come riding out of the heavens on a majestic steed, wielding a flaming sword, and hew the necks of everyone with a “calvin peeing” sticker on their truck?
pretty please?
Here’s some better news: they had some for sale at the Wal-Mart in Harrisburg, PA. Price: $8.88.
The book includes his commentary on his Sunday strips and mentions he has been painting.
What really burns my socks is that he was only 28 when he started C&H. Reminds me of my favorite Tom Lerher line: “When Mozart was my age, he had been dead for 16 years.”
Does anyone know if this includes stuff that is not included in the previous publications? Why would The Ohio State University be putting this on? Is Watterson doing serious painting, and if so is it on display any place?
OSU has a Cartoon Research Library:
http://www.lib.ohio-state.edu/OSU_profile/cgaweb/
American artform, and all that.
Regarding the peeing Calvin stickers–why has there not been a massive lawsuit/cease and desist order regarding all that crap? Fox actively hunts down Simpsons and X-Files fansites but something this gross is profitable and popular for a certain scummy brand of people?
Hot Damn!
Spavined Gelding, the book includes a preface by Lucy Shelton Caswell, a (or the?) curator at the Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library, but it doesn’t specifically say why the exhibition is being done. There’s an introduction by Bill Watterson where he talks about writing and drawing Calvin and Hobbes, and he says that he’s been teaching himself how to paint and trying to learn something about music since ending the strip, but no details as to whether any of his painting is on display or for sale.
As to what’s included, each Sunday strip takes two pages–on the left-hand page, the strip is printed in black and white (not with the color removed, but a reproduction of the black and white line drawing before coloring) and on the right-hand page, the strip is printed in color. Many of the strips also have commentary from Bill. None of the strips are new material, but the commentary is new. Some of the commentary is similar to some that may have been in the Tenth Anniversary Book, but since he’s covering some of the same ground here, that’s not surprising.
Elwood reminded me of the latest “Calvin peeing” sticker I’ve seen. The “target” were the words “Bin Laden”.