I admit to being culturally deprived and have no clue as to the significance of the pissing Calvin decorating the back windows of many vehicles. How and why did THAT get started? Is it supposed to be humorous or does it convey some esoteric meaning not intended for the uninitiated?
This guy provides some history, as well as a large gallery of various peeing Calvins.
Basically Calvin was bootlegged onto everything imaginable, and eventually pictures of him peeing on something that the owner didn’t like became popular. Most of the decals I’ve seen don’t have him peeing on anything in particular, so it seems many folks just like the image of a small peeing kid.
I want to make a t-shirt of Calvin pissing on the word “Bootlegging.”
How about Calvin pissing on a smaller pissing Calvin?
Are you joking? could you please tell me you’re joking…a kid (in sticker form, STICKER FORM) pissing on the same sticker though smaller or on the word “bootlegging”? move over jerry seinfeld, tangent and troy are too funny for this message board…
Apparently so:
MANNEKEN-PIS (STATUE OF THE PISSING BOY), City of Brussels Museum photo
Recent pissing boy fountain sculpture was installed near the Engineering Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia cite
Replica of Pissing statue causes controversy in Orlando, FL cite
Do clarify that post, please.
If they’re bootlegs, how come people who put them on their cars/trucks/whaddevers aren’t being arrested? Just seems so wrong.
Perhaps because, in my jurisdiction at least, breach of copyright is not a criminal offence.
It follows that it is not an offence to display articles that breach copyright. If it was, it’d sure put a hold on those trips to Bali. 
Alternatively, I’ve been soundly whooshed. :o
It’s not a criminial offense? Then how come it’s called bootlegging? 
I think it’s just that the police - or any authority - can’t just bust someone for having something that violates a copyright; action has to be taken by the copyright holder, right?
After all, if I violate copyright of MS Office by distributing it to my friends, I could be severely punished - IF Microsoft wanted to do something about it. Right?
Wouldn’t Bill Watterson have to file suit against the counterfeit Calvins to stop them? Maybe he hasn’t because there are just too many to go after, or maybe he just isn’t pissed off enough.
Here are a couple of relevant threads…
Pissing Calvin is classy.
Calvin Peeing stickers on car windows.
In the second thread above, Achernar posted…
Bill Watterson tried to stop the bootleggers, but there were too many of them. He eventually gave up.
There was an article in a Farmington, NM newspaper about the guy who supposedly started this whole phenomenon. He worked in Albuquerque for an auto detailing store or something like that and started producing the stickers at customers request. The article also said he eventually found God and now only makes decals of Calvin kneeling and praying. Sorry I don’t have an exact cite but I’m pretty sure thats the jist of the article. I was wondering how this guy knew he started it all.
I remember seeing a Freshjive shirt in Seattle about 7 or 8 years ago with a picture of a kid that looked kind of like Calvin (though not enough to be copyright infringement) pissing the word “FreshJive” on a fence, so I guess the kid peeing thing has been around for quite a while.
You violate copyright by making copies of copyrighted material. If you buy one of the copies, that’s not a copyright violation.
<offtopic>I’m typing this from Farmington, NM. Small world.</offtopic>
I’d like one of Calvin peeing on a copyright symbol.
Except that would be illegal.
How about a decal of Calvin pissing in a toilet/urinal for once?