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The Authoritative Calvin And Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes Collections #2)
The week it hit the stores, Weirdos from Another Planet! touched down at No. 1 on Walden's and B. Dalton's bestseller lists and No. 2 on the New York Times bestseller list. How do you top such success? With The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes, a large-format treasury of the cartoons from Yukon Ho! and Weirdos from Another Planet! (including full-color Sunday cartoons) plus...more
Paperback, 254 pages
Published
October 17th 1991
by Sphere
(first published 1990)
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If I'd have met Calvin in second grade, we'd still be married. It's really hard to find a good boy with a tiger.
The comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes" was, and continues to be, like the best gifts, unexpected and undeserved. It touches all the bases, from highbrow, considerably exclusive wit, to pricelessly rendered slapstick, to flat-out potty humor, to laugh-out-loud (loud!) knockout punchlines, and then every now and then for good measure it would either make you cry or question your very existence.
It's impossible not to adore Calvin, a true testament to Watterson's characterization skills when you consi...more
It's impossible not to adore Calvin, a true testament to Watterson's characterization skills when you consi...more
I love, love, love Calvin & Hobbes. Reading this, seeing the expressions on Calvin's face or the grimaces & scowls on his parents' faces just makes me all kinds of happy. It's going into that world that is Calvin's imagination that takes me back to my own childhood years where everything was possible that makes me happy & glowy. Bill Waterson's a genius. He captured what it's like being a kid with an overactive imagination & expanded on the idea with his own imagination & tal...more
This book is about a six year old boy and his best friend (who is a stuffed tiger) Hobbes. This duo spells trouble. Calvin thinks Hobbes is real but he is a stuffed animal but Calvin pretends to make Hobbes do things and his mom gets mad at Calvin but he blames it on Hobbes!
Calvin isn't good in school because he never does his homework and in the class room he is always fantasizing about "Spaceman Spiff". Calvin is a pretender, He pretends to turn himself into an elephant with his transmogrifier...more
Calvin isn't good in school because he never does his homework and in the class room he is always fantasizing about "Spaceman Spiff". Calvin is a pretender, He pretends to turn himself into an elephant with his transmogrifier...more
I wasn't familiar with Calvin & Hobbes growing up; like Ramona Quimby, Calvin is "not a good influence". ;-) I've seen a few of the strips around, but never in much context. So this book was something of a learning experience.
Unlike Ramona, whose popularity is (imo) mainly due to her being an accurate and realistic little kid, Calvin is a caricature, but an equally accurate and lovable one in his own style. His Ramona-to-the-Snoopyth-power imagination lets the writer dabble in many different...more
Unlike Ramona, whose popularity is (imo) mainly due to her being an accurate and realistic little kid, Calvin is a caricature, but an equally accurate and lovable one in his own style. His Ramona-to-the-Snoopyth-power imagination lets the writer dabble in many different...more
Nov 09, 2012
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My book that I choose for my second book report was Calvin and Hobbes it’s a children’s book.
The summary of this book is basically that it switches on every page so it doesn’t really have a summary .I think only like little kids should read this because it’s more of a kids book then our age books.
The point of this book is mainly to entertain because it’s fiction and like there’s pictures in every page of the book. The Author was just simply trying to make people laugh and not really to inform b...more
The summary of this book is basically that it switches on every page so it doesn’t really have a summary .I think only like little kids should read this because it’s more of a kids book then our age books.
The point of this book is mainly to entertain because it’s fiction and like there’s pictures in every page of the book. The Author was just simply trying to make people laugh and not really to inform b...more
by Bill Watterson, published in 1988.
Every time I sit down and start reading my daughter Calvin and Hobbes, I just can’t help smiling out loud. There is something so true, so funny, so insightful about this comic strip it gets under your skin and tickles you from inside.
My daughter loves it too. This collection, The Authoritative Calvin And Hobbes, includes all the comics from “Yukon Ho!” and “Weirdos From Another Planet!” and is fantastic. But don’t let me tell you, just go out and get it and r...more
Every time I sit down and start reading my daughter Calvin and Hobbes, I just can’t help smiling out loud. There is something so true, so funny, so insightful about this comic strip it gets under your skin and tickles you from inside.
My daughter loves it too. This collection, The Authoritative Calvin And Hobbes, includes all the comics from “Yukon Ho!” and “Weirdos From Another Planet!” and is fantastic. But don’t let me tell you, just go out and get it and r...more
This is pretty darn good vintage Calvin and Hobbes. My feeling is that most cartoonists aspire to turn out work like this. It's just so solid -- the drawing and the writing. And the humor is consistently funny! Watterson manages to work in way more social and political commentary than you'd think a strip about a misfit rambunctious six-year-old and his special tiger would allow for. Granted, Calvin's having a vocabulary larger than most college graduates is pretty integral to achieving this end...more
This is the comic that relates the adventures of Calvin and his toy tiger, Hobbes. Hobbes is seen by Calvin's parents as a plush toy and by Calvin and the reader as a pouncing and amiable "real" tiger — Calvin's slightly-more-sensible better half.
I enjoyed the early years of this comic but then it started to get too something. I don't know what. Too rote, maybe. A little preachy, perhaps. Plus, I started seeing those awful Calvin peeing on a Ford/Chevy symbol bumper stickers everywhere. (I have...more
I enjoyed the early years of this comic but then it started to get too something. I don't know what. Too rote, maybe. A little preachy, perhaps. Plus, I started seeing those awful Calvin peeing on a Ford/Chevy symbol bumper stickers everywhere. (I have...more
They're cute, they're funny, and at times rather cynical. What else to say? I read this because my brother beat me at tennis and we have a running bet where the winner of tennis matches gets to give the other person something they have to read. This is definitely something that I otherwise would have picked up and read cover to cover otherwise, but they were fun and nice little tidbits. Warning, they do pose a problem for reading at night: you say "Oh, I'll just read a few more comics," and then...more
May not be great literature, but Bill Watterson sees something which most of us don't. My life has been diminished by not having the joy of opening the daily paper to some new insight to ourselves through his eyes.
What else can I say? Part artist, part superhero, part ladies man. Calvin has the style that the ladies are beggin for...and his tiger is pretty fly too.
Imagination is a wonderful thing
Imagination is a wonderful thing
This book is great. I find this book entertaining and adventurous because Calvin, the main character, is always ready for an adventure. Calvin has a huge imagination because he is always making up a type of machine based on what will help him once his mom tells him something. For example when his mom tells him to take a shower he makes a clone machine so that his clone can take a shower for him. He thinks he can get away with it but his mom always finds out. He tries to make an excuse for when h...more
This book is really a collection of choice strips from other books - in fact i recognised several from the earlier books i read and reviewed here. SO that is a done side to this book nothing new. BUT the format is considerably larger so the strips are clearer and easier to read and view some of which are in full colour. So my thoughts on this - I now have a number of Calvin and Hobbes books and sadly I can see the repartition however they are still great fun to read and still have the ability to...more
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The format for this version is a little unsettling. In other collections, the Sunday cartoons are set off in their own little chapters--here they're interfiled with the black and white ones--but not (I think) in sequence. It's somewhat disorienting.
I have some of the collections this edition summarizes, but not all of them. The cartoons I've marked in my copy are some of the classics I refer to frequently--but others are not marked. I was somewhat capricious in my marking.
Again, I appreciate the...more
I have some of the collections this edition summarizes, but not all of them. The cartoons I've marked in my copy are some of the classics I refer to frequently--but others are not marked. I was somewhat capricious in my marking.
Again, I appreciate the...more
Calvin and Hobbes is a guilty pleasure of mine. I grew up reading tons of the collections, wanting desperately to be friends with Calvin. Now that I'm grown, I still totally want to be friends with Calvin. Bill Watterson's characters were a mainstay in my childhood home, so when I moved into a home of my own, I quite naturally wanted to have some familiar faces on the bookshelf. Taking a break from reading Les Miserables (the next book I will finish/review) to flip through the much lighter far...more
Why is it that whenever I'm feeling a little low, all I have to do is pull one of the Calvin & Hobbes books from the shelf and give it a good re-read to perk me up. I've many other "funny-books", but these are the ones that bring me most joy.
Then, a little after I am done, I start re-realizing that Watterson will probably never do any more, then I get sad again.
I'm very grateful for what I have... and I'll re-read them as many times as I need... I just wish there were more.
OK, now I'm feelin...more
Then, a little after I am done, I start re-realizing that Watterson will probably never do any more, then I get sad again.
I'm very grateful for what I have... and I'll re-read them as many times as I need... I just wish there were more.
OK, now I'm feelin...more
its a fun read
One of the most perceptive, thought-provoking, and truly funny cartoon strips ever created! Watterson not only nails life, he's hilarious. He addresses everything from philosophy to film noir. I was actually saddened when I learned he was quitting the strip! Thank goodness we've got his books to recall. Life, art, literature, philosophy, friendship, imagination, evil -- you name it, Calvin and his toy tiger take it on. Add this book to The Essential Calvin and Hobbes and you'll have most of the...more
Imagine coming home from school one day and as soon as you open the door, a stuffed tiger attacks you! That's how life is with Calvin, an eight year old terror who has little motivation but a great imagination (which can turn schoolbuses into alien spaceships and he can transmogrify into anything at all)! With his imagination, his stuffed tiger comes to life and 2 have many misadventures. As for Calvin's parents, a line in a popular Joe Walsh song sums up their predicament- they're lucky to be s...more
Ever since I started my Garfield phase, everyone kept trying to get me to read Calvin and Hobbes, but the summary they gave me (It's about a boy and his stuffed tiger) wasn't selling it.
Anyway, I finally agreed to give one a try. This happens to be the first one I ever read, and I absolutely love it. Calvin and Hobbes has made me literally laugh out loud, which is rare, and shown me what my first grade mortal enemy, Tommy, was thinking every time he called me a "meanie-pants" and stuck his tongu...more
Anyway, I finally agreed to give one a try. This happens to be the first one I ever read, and I absolutely love it. Calvin and Hobbes has made me literally laugh out loud, which is rare, and shown me what my first grade mortal enemy, Tommy, was thinking every time he called me a "meanie-pants" and stuck his tongu...more
I never read all of the Calvin and Hobbes series to this day, but when I was thirteen, I bought the authoritative edition from the book store. I read it and laughed myself silly, and I read it over and over again. I began to also draw characters that looked like Calvin and Hobbes. I was in love with Calvin's imagination, because I spent a great deal of time with myself and my imagination as well. Great building block for me in terms of developing the reading muscle.
I give Calvin and Hobbes credit for developing my vocabulary. When I was younger, if I didn't get a scene, I'd look up the confusing words, then reread the strip multiple times until I finally got every nuance of how the word was used. Although I now rarely use the words "myriad" or "adversary" or "tranquility" in everyday conversation, I'll never forget how smart I felt when I finally understood Calvin's ranting after learning those words.
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This is among the books published by Bill Watterson from the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip that I have enjoyed. My children have literally worn out these collections of C&H comics, and with good reason. C&H is a unique blend of homespun philosophy, side-splitting humor, and insight into the human (child and adult) condition. Watterson's insights into, and sly digs at, various social, familial, and other institutions of modern life are masterful.
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I absolutely ADORED this book! It's so cute how they interact with each other. I think Hobbes is so adorable, and Calvin is extremely funny. This demonstrates how kids and their stuffed animals play with each other. Adults somethimes think their kids are crazy when they talk to their stuffed animals like they're real people. But, actually it's inspriring because it shows that little kids are using their imaginations.
Never fully understood, but this is my childhood.
I own a bunch of these, and I truly feel like they serve the purpose of a family photo. They're beautifully insightful works that say so much in so little time.
I can appreciate something that stands the test of time (childhood to adulthood),
and even if there are some things I just don't get, it's part of growing up, and in time, I'm sure I'll understand more and more.
I own a bunch of these, and I truly feel like they serve the purpose of a family photo. They're beautifully insightful works that say so much in so little time.
I can appreciate something that stands the test of time (childhood to adulthood),
and even if there are some things I just don't get, it's part of growing up, and in time, I'm sure I'll understand more and more.
I have to agree with Calvin in one of the comic strips where he's listening to the radio when that song about Santa Clause seeing you when you sleeping and knowing when your awake tuns on and Calvin turns it off an says "Santa Clause: Kindly old elf or CIA spook? These comic strips have entertained me for years no matter what mood I was in. I have always loved and continue loving this series.
I learned that no matter the age, it's still a great book to read. read some of it when i was young, didn't understand it then, because of the wide range of vocab Watterson used, and when i was younger, i thought Hobbes was a real tiger! now as i grow older, he's becoming more of the fake toy tiger now, although he still retains that character. i hate growing up
This was the first Calvin and Hobbes collection I read. It was fourth grade and I obtained my own copy last year around Christmas. I've found that as I get older and wiser in some ways, the strip has more resonance and hilarity. Of the comic strip in general, it touches on the deepest roots of human nature, it is uplifting, it is contemplative,it's exquisite.
Where does one begin with Calvin and Hobbes? Bill Watterson is just awesome! My ten year old cousin enjoys the simplicity of Calvin and Hobbes. As you get older you appreciate it on a different level. The subliminal messages that are so brilliantly added in the comics is so great! Watterson's imagination and ingenuity astounds me! I love him!
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Bill Watterson (born William Boyd Watterson II) is an American cartoonist, and the author of the comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes". His career as a syndicated cartoonist ran from 1985 to 1995; he stopped drawing "Calvin and Hobbes" at the end of 1995 with a short statement to newspaper editors and his fans that he felt he had achieved all he could in the comic strip medium. During the early years of...more
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