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More Calvin & Hobbes Star Wars, plus Pooh, plus Sesame St…..

Thursday, August 26, 2010

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Doing the quick post about Calvin & Hobbes yesterday sent me along (as these link trails invariably do) somewhere very nice – to the “relentlessly cheerful art” of James Hance. Loads of great mash ups including one of the original (I think) C&H/SW mash ups:

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Chewie & Han….. ahhhhhh

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

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Beautifully done Chewie & Han/ Calvin & Hobbes T-shirt by Chris Wahl: And as with these sorts of things there’s a link trail…. via Pootling first of all, but he got it via Metafilter with an “Everybody & Hobbes” link section, some I’d seen, some I’d not….. (Cthulhu & Hobbes T-shirt, artist unknown) (Rockwell inspired [...]

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Art for the weekend…. Spiders, Vampires and Holy Bat-Calvin!

Saturday, May 22, 2010

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Via Wim (and Reddit), although no artist mentioned sadly – any idea who it’s by? Is it you? Get in touch if you know. But a great Calvin & Hobbes image. UPDATE 22/5/10: Thanks to Jason Garrattley in the comments – the artist is Kyle Latino. Lou Romano’s  Monster Squad series (more at the link) [...]

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The regular Bill Watterson interview slot (next one due 2030) ……. and Watchmen 2????

Saturday, February 6, 2010

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Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin & Hobbes, and famous recluse, breaks a 20 year silence with an interview for the  Cleveland Plain Dealer. “By the end of 10 years, I’d said pretty much everything I had come there to say. It’s always better to leave the party early. If I had rolled along with the [...]

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Cartoon stamps

Monday, January 18, 2010

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Bloghorn reports that the US Postal Service has a number of comics and cartoon themed postage stamps on the way this year, with Pulitzer-winning and World War Two veteran cartoonist Bill Mauldin being honoured with his own stamp come March, while in July there’s a whole set of stamps, Sunday Funnies, which will feature characters [...]

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Calvin and Hobbes snowman nightmares!

Thursday, January 7, 2010

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As we shiver in a long spell of harsh winter weather some folks have put all that snow to some fine use, re-creating some of the famous snowman scenes from the immortal Calvin and Hobbes. (via ComicPlanet’s Twitter) (Calvin & Hobbes art by and (c) the great Bill Watterson, pic via the Web Urbanist)

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Childhood’s end…..

Monday, August 24, 2009

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Like Wim said on his post – it can’t be Watterson, but that doesn’t make it any less wonderful. Painful, heartbreaking and wonderful. (Seen first via Wim and then @Glinner‘s twitter)

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