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23 January 2007
Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:02:03 GMTThe Complete Calvin and Hobbes
Bill Waterson
My most prized christmas present. All the comics and extra bits culled from previous books bound up in a 3 book, 1500 page, 12.5×11×4.5 inch, 20 pound box set. Ah…
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A magical world indeed.
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09 November 2005
Wed, 09 Nov 2005 17:24:00 GMT Calvin and Hobbes - The last great newspaper comic strip.via Kjell Olsen1031 days agoThat’s the assumption that adults make because nobody else sees him, sees Hobbes, in the way that Calvin does. It would seem to me, though, that when you make up a friend for yourself, you would have somebody to agree with you, not to argue with you. So Hobbes is more real than I suspect any kid would dream up. Bill Watterson, on Hobbes.
If you’re inclined to go beyond jokes and say something heartfelt, honest, or thoughtful, you have a tremendous opportunity. And best of all, because the comics are generally regarded as frivolous, disposable entertainment, readers rarely have their guard up. Bill Watterson
I cried the day the last CH strip ran. I was almost 9, and Calvin was both my childhood idol and introduction to literature. I found the strip in its entirety floating around on the web a year or two ago, and the comic is just amazing. It hasn’t lost anything. I can still sit down to read it and get up two hours later wondering where the time went.
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22 May 2005
Sun, 22 May 2005 13:23:54 GMT SummertimeKjell Olsen1202 days agoBoy, just a few more weeks. I can’t wait. (Calvin and Hobbes are the best).
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26 February 2005
Sat, 26 Feb 2005 23:06:36 GMT Bill Watterson at Kenyon Collegevia Kjell Olsen1287 days agoCommencement speech given by Bill Watterson at his alma mater – one of his few public works besides his comic strips.
Despite the futility of the whole episode, my fondest memories of college are times like these, where things were done out of some inexplicable inner imperative, rather than because the work was demanded. Clearly, I never spent as much time or work on any authorized art project, or any poli sci paper, as I spent on this one act of vandalism.
If you ever want to find out just how uninteresting you really are, get a job where the quality and frequency of your thoughts determine your livelihood. I’ve found that the only way I can keep writing every day, year after year, is to let my mind wander into new territories. To do that, I’ve had to cultivate a kind of mental playfulness.
We’re not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand ourselves. Our idea of relaxing is all too often to plop down in front of the television set and let its pandering idiocy liquefy our brains. Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery-it recharges by running.
Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules and rewards.
Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it’s to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success.
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Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:30:00 GMT
Calvin and Hobbes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediavia Kjell Olsen1287 days ago
What a great series, and quite a pleasantry to stumble upon this after just finishing reading Le Petit Prince. Two whimsical and incredible pieces of work – go read them1 over and over.
1 Calvin and Hobbes can be had here until it’s hammered by some legality, while le petit prince seems to be under some sort of copyright, and is better in print with the pictures anyway.
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