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Wednesday, December 10. 2008

Calvin and Hobbes

Years ago there was an excellent Calvin and Hobbes toon. In it, Calvin was either writing a journal and/or taking photos or drawing pictures. Hobbes asks him why he's doing it. Calvin replies that he is pre-shaping his past for his eventual run for the Presidency. As I recall it, it entails a portrait of a noble young Calvin, studying a book.

If any reader can find a copy of that toon, we'd love to see it again.

The reason it came to my mind today is obvious.

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 17:46 | Comments (12) | Trackbacks (0)

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I think we've got all the Calvin and Hobbes books. Let me look through them and report back.
#1 Skookumchuk (Link) on 2008-12-10 18:55 (Reply)
We have 'em too, but me not have time to look thru them all. Plus they are beginning to fall apart due to frequent revisiting.
#2 Bird Dog on 2008-12-10 19:04 (Reply)
Well, then - division of labor. I'll look through "Scientific Progress Goes Bonk," "Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons," "The Revenge of the Baby-sat," and "Yukon Ho!" and you look through the rest. Deal?
#2.1 Skookumchuk (Link) on 2008-12-10 19:26 (Reply)
always wondered if the title refers to 'nature is order' John Calvin and 'nature is disorder' Thomas Hobbes --
#3 buddy larsen on 2008-12-10 20:05 (Reply)
Bing Bing Bing! We have a winner!
#3.1 The Distributist on 2008-12-10 20:08 (Reply)
Yes, but as a fan of both, I recommend the
prescient Pogo, Everyman (or Every-possum),
as the supreme source for daily rebuttal of ongoing
political nonsense.

Walt Kelly was truly Occam's razor, and was wasted
on the harmless Eisenhower 50's. Truly, his commentary
is timeless and will skewer 'The One' as effectively as
he did Estes Kefauver, et al. Check it out!

I enjoy your blog daily ...
thanks for the hard work.

Robert
Deep in the Blue Ridge
#4 Robert on 2008-12-10 21:42 (Reply)
great post from deep in the blue ridge --agree, Pogo was a masterpiece. Walt Kelly is somewhere reading your post and (as goes the old Louisiana expression) "grinnin' like a possum eating banana peels".

Another masterwork imho was Al Capp's "L'il Abner" --with that cast of characters i knew for a fact was real, having grown up in the deep south just in time to have memories of the last of that hardscrabble generation. It's true every person in a Dogpatch town was an eccentric --and how.

It was great --folks was determined to have lotsa laffs if conditions would possibly permit.
#4.1 buddy larsen on 2008-12-10 23:30 (Reply)
Nothing so far... :-)
#5 Skookumchuk (Link) on 2008-12-10 22:38 (Reply)
Of course, then there are all the other books not listed above...

but that must wait until tomorrow.
#6 Skookumchuk (Link) on 2008-12-10 23:53 (Reply)
May be the one about 4/5ths of the way down here:

http://www.marcellosendos.ch/comics/ch/1993/03/199303.html
#7 djs on 2008-12-11 00:27 (Reply)
Looking back (that's in retrospect in big words): looks to me as if the decline of those wonderful cartoon strips was one of the first indicators that our culture was being "deconstructed". Of course, some just retired--but, they were never replaced with the same quality--or the same freedom of speech (accompanied by insight).
#8 apple pie on 2008-12-11 07:21 (Reply)
One of the things that began to happen was that individual comics were shrunk so the newspaper could fit one or two more on the page. Several comic strip artists complained about this - Bill Watterson among them. They could no longer draw anything with any scope or depth. So that didn't help.
#9 Skookumchuk (Link) on 2008-12-11 09:55 (Reply)

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