The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes
by Bill Watterson
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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...more
It's impossible not to adore Calvin, a true testament to Watterson's characterization skills...more
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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...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...more
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Read in January, 1993
I was cleaning my garage last month and found a box with our collection of Calvin and Hobbes books and so I let my six year old daughter take them to look through. When I came in the house next she was laughing so hard she could barely breathe. She has read and reread all five of the books we have and she quotes from them regularly. My four year old son loves to have his sister read them to him and I find them giggling uncontrollably as they go through them together together.
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Calvin & Hobbes classic childhood read, you laugh then at the innocent jokes but when you get older and look back on it, you reminiscene and laugh at childhood be it your own or just overall.
The relationship between Calvin and Hobbes is wonderful, the best bud until the end thing that we all need and deserve, reading the comics again it makes me smile..it's adorable.
I don't know what my childhood would have been without it.
The relationship between Calvin and Hobbes is wonderful, the best bud until the end thing that we all need and deserve, reading the comics again it makes me smile..it's adorable.
I don't know what my childhood would have been without it.
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I have all the snowman cartoons saved in my computer. I also have outside the door of my office at work, Calvin crawling across the kitchen floor, as if across the Calahari desert, begging his mother for chocolate chips, and her saying, "No, and get up off the floor!"
It was the saddest day when Bill Watterson decided to hang it up.
It was the saddest day when Bill Watterson decided to hang it up.
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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.
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Read in January, 1988
My constant companions throughout middle school, Calvin & Hobbes (as personified by Bill Watterson) never failed to amuse me. They (he) have the best answer to everything- even where babies come from (Calvin was a blue aisle special at K-mart). Only grudge I have is that they wouldn't let girls into their club :(
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Read in February, 2007
Earlier this year, when I was reading hundreds of applications for the Admissions Office, I turned to my collection of Calvin and Hobbes books in the evenings. They got me through some hard times... I recommend all of Bill Watterson's work. This man (a Kenyon alumnus!) is a genius.
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I mourned the day I heard Calvin and Hobbes were no longer being created. I love Calvin's imagination and all-boy mannerisms. Reminded me of my childhood and at times, still serves as an escape to those warm, summer days with just me and my friends (often imaginary)...
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Calvin & Hobbes basically make me pee my pants. I love precocious (but not obnoxiously so!) kids, and Calvin is 6 or 7 going on 30. Plus, his "best friendship" with Hobbes reminds me of my "relationship" with my favorite stuffed animal when I was his age.
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This was my son to a "t"; Calvin & Hobbes were his favorite books - I loved Bill Watterson's humor found in the adventures of this little guy and his ever-present friend. Reading or thinking about the two still makes me smile and then laugh out loud.
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Love the timelessness of C&H. As a college student I loved his spunk -- the kid wanted to be. As a parent, I understood his folks and felt like I had my own little Calvins, albeit not quite as spirited.
Calvin is now my teenage son's hero.
Calvin is now my teenage son's hero.
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My favorite cartoon of all time. Calvin is banging nails into the coffee table. His mother sees him and flips out, asks him "CALVIN! What are you doing?!?!" Calvins stops, and matter of factly replies, "Is this a trick question?"
I love it!
I love it!
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This stuff is Golden! This and the Farside are the only comic strips worth reading. (HA HA HA Garfield told another Lasagna joke)
A few pages of this ends up being my kid's favorite bedtime story. It is always good to laugh before bed.
A few pages of this ends up being my kid's favorite bedtime story. It is always good to laugh before bed.
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anyone!!!!
Excellent book!!! It combines fun into learning and will make you laugh till it hurts. The Authoritative Calvine and Hobbes combines many books together so you will have hours and hours of fun reading this book. Excellent Book!!!!
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Anyone with a sense of Humor
Calvin and Hobbes - Nothing catchers the essence of a boy's childhood better than this collection of comics from Bill Watterson. It is hilarious and so true on every level.
Warning - chicks might not get the jokes.
Warning - chicks might not get the jokes.
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I think it's funny that I have Calvin and Hobbes in my collection. But I love this comic strip. Always have. I think Calvin's imagination is AWESOME! I just crack-up at all the ways he finds to get into trouble.
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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
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Loved this when I was a kid. I keep a copy around and pull it off the shelf sometimes when I can't sleep. Sometimes and backfires and keeps me awake longer because I can't put it down. Still love it.
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john and i have been reading these to e...he doesn't understand many of them but enjoys the dinosaurs and spaceman spiff ones. we certainly enjoy them on a whole new level as parents.
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