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In the alternate reality presented by these slick illustrations by Coran Stone, Calvin and Hobbes grew up to be super spies, and Christopher Robin and Pooh Bear are hell bent on bringing them both down.
These illustrations, and the story behind them, are just begging to be made into an animated series of some sort, and you can read the whole thing at the Geeks Are Sexy link below.
It’s the ultimate battle of imaginary friends, and I like the fact that, in the Pooh picture, Hobbes is still a stuffed animal!
Link –via GeeksAreSexy
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Here’s another snowman crime scene sure to make Calvin and Hobbes very happy. They’re impaled on the Ellifrett Structure at the University of Wyoming, and I can’t think of a more festive way to greet the students during the holidays, aside from staging a Santa Claus crash scene on the football field!
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Joel Watson imagined Calvin and Hobbes in the dangerous world of Game of Thrones. I think that Calvin is Jon Snow and Hobbes is his pet direwolf Ghost. Link -via The Mary Sue
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We've posted about the clever street art of French artist OaKoAk before on Neatorama, but I couldn't resist this one of Calvin and Hobbes: Link - via My Modern Met
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The webcomic Pants Are Overrated (a sentiment that I heartily endorse) imagines Calvin 26 years after the end of Bill Watterson’s comic. He’s all grown and the father of a daughter (named, to continue the theme, after Francis Bacon). She can’t sleep. Click on the link to read the rest.
Bill Watterson is now famous for his Calvin & Hobbes cartoons. But several years before that strip began, he was a contributor to the student newspaper of Kenyon College. There he studied political science from 1976-1980. At the link, you can view a selection of his cartoons from that time.
Link via Geekosystem
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Cartoonist Timonthy Lim and writer Mark Pellegrini imagined Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes as the villain in “It’s a Good Life“, an episode of The Twilight Zone. Pictured above is one panel. Pellegrini writes:
Tonight’s story on The Twilight Zone is somewhat unique and calls for a different kind of introduction. On a given morning not too long ago, the rest of the world disappeared, save for one small town. Its inhabitants were never sure whether the world was destroyed or whether their small town was taken away. They were, on the other hand, sure of one thing: the cause. A monster. Just by using his mind, he took away the automobiles, the electricity, the machines – because they displeased him – and replaced them with tyrannosaurs in F-15′s, chainsaw Batman, and an unmarried-Spider-Man who sold his marriage to the Devil – just by using his mind.
Link via Popped Culture
Comic book artists Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo honored the great cartoon Calvin & Hobbes with a comic showing Lex Luthor as Calvin and the Joker as Hobbes plotting to kill Superman. Click on the link to see the rest.
Link via Popped Culture
Computer programmer Michael Yingling developed a search engine for archived Calvin & Hobbes comic strips. Here are some tips for using it:
Currently the search only looks for EXACT phrases (not case sensitive), so if you’re looking for a comic with the words “balloon” and “airplane” you cannot enter them both, or it will search for “balloon airplane” together. Perhaps in the future I will fix this, but it’s actually a lot more difficult than leaving it as-is.
There is one exception though! You can search for a DATE and it will find that specific comic, though it MUST be of the format MM/DD/YYYY. So 09/01/1986 will work, but “Sept 1st ’86″ and “9/1/86″ wont – yet.
It’s like Garfield Minus Garfield, but with replaces the living, imaginary Hobbes of Calvin & Hobbes with the inanimate stuffed animal.
I’m not sure who is the photoshop artist responsible, so I’ll withhold attribution for the moment.
Link via Comics Alliance
Stephen McCranie created the comic strip Mal and Chad as a feature for his college newspaper. It’s about a boy and his pet dog (there’s a robot in there somewhere, too, so be still mah heart!) and if the premise looks familiar to you, you’re not alone.
A lot of people have compared Mal and Chad to its archetypal predecessors (if you will): Calvin and Hobbes, Tintin and Snowy, Charlie Brown and Snoopy – and I think they’re on the right track. Fifteen years after Bill Watterson retired and ended Calvin and Hobbes, the world desperately needs a replacement.
I, for one, am cheering Stephen McCranie and his super-fun creation on, and you should too. Check out Mal and Chad here: Link
P.S. Stephen is also kind enough to do a feature on Neatorama’s Art Blog here.
P.P.S. Stephen also drew us this fantastic fan art (Thanks Stephen!)
The comic strip Calvin & Hobbes often included Calvin’s disturbing snowmen. We’ve previously featured one such scene recreated with real snowmen, but WebUrbanist has a post filled with them.
Every year, the United States Postal Service release a set of new stamps and this year, one particular set stands out: The Sunday Funnies Collection.
Comics Alliance blog has the scoop (and more pics):
Based on popular newspaper comic strips, the series will include stamps involving Archie, Garfield, Dennis the Menace, the cast of "Beetle Bailey," and my personal favorites, Calvin and Hobbes!
Link | USPS News Release – Thanks Laura!
Comics Alliance asked professional cartoonists to submit their own depictions of Bill Watterson’s comic Calvin & Hobbes. Eleven responded. Pictured above is the work of Paul Hornschemeier, the graphic novelist responsible for Mother, Come Home.
Comic strips – they’re usually happy, fun, lighthearted places (unless you prefer the likes of Rex Morgan. But behind the smiles sometimes lie sinister
secrets – the mysterious and questionable disappearance of characters! OK, I’m being a bit dramatic – just consider me in the Halloween spirit, and enjoy these four characters whose faces you might spot on a comic strip milk carton.
Who knew Charles Schulz had a Charles Addams sense of humor? He may not have exhibited it often, but it definitely came out when he killed off one of his Peanuts characters – literally.
Charlotte Braun was Charlie Brown’s counterpart in the early days and was kind of a mix in personality of Charlie’s little sister, Sally, and his nemesis, Lucy. She only made about 10 appearances in Peanuts before Schulz decided to get rid of her undeveloped character, but when a young Miss Elizabeth Swaim wrote him suggesting that he erase Charlotte from the comic, he decided to have a little fun with her. He responded and agreed to do it, but said, “Remember… that you and your friends will have the death of an innocent child on your conscience. Are you prepared to accept such responsibility?” He finished it off with a drawing of Charlotte Braun with an ax in her head. Comic from Jim Hill Media.
For about five years from the late ‘70s to the early ‘80s, Jon Arbuckle had a roommate by the name of Lyman. In fact, Lyman was the original owner of slobbery mutt Odie. Before Garfield evolved into the companion he is portrayed as today, Lyman was there so Jon consistently had someone to have conversations with that would escalate the storyline. As Garfield grew up and he and Jon seemed to sort of understand each other, Lyman wasn’t really needed anymore. Instead of writing him out of the comic strip and giving him some sort of send off, Jim Davis just simply stopped drawing Lyman in the cartoons and offered no explanation. He showed up a couple more times – once in the 10th anniversary strip in the title panel, and once in a flashback.
Eagle-eyed fans also spotted him in Garfield’s Halloween games Scary Scavenger Hunt and Scary Scavenger Hunt 2 – in the first one, Lyman can be found chained to a wall in the basement and in the sequel his head turns up in an oven. Jim Davis hinted at Lyman’s untimely demise once – when asked what happened to Jon’s roommate, Davis replied, “Don’t look in Jon’s basement.” He later said he was kidding and that Lyman’s official plot line, even if it didn’t appear in the cartoon, is that he joined the Peace Corps and was never heard from again. Comic from Garfield Et Cie Blog.
Remember Calvin’s Uncle Max? You know, from Calvin and Hobbes? No? Well, you’re in good company. He was only around for about a week’s worth of comic strips, just long enough for a visit to Calvin’s house.
Apparently Calvin and his uncle had never met before (or perhaps they met when Calvin was an infant) because Calvin couldn’t recall meeting him and speculated that he had most likely been serving time in jail. Uncle Max ended his visit by telling Calvin that he was welcome to visit anytime he wanted, but we never saw or heard from Uncle Max again.
Why the permanent departure? Bill Watterson later explained that because Calvin’s parents were never given any names other than “Mom” and “Dad,” it was getting increasingly difficult for Uncle Max to have conversations with his brother and his sister-in-law. He had to go – so, he went. Comic from Calvin and Hobbes Info.
Denise was the girlfriend of Peter Fox from FoxTrot. If you’re a fan, you undoubtedly remember her – she was one of the only blind characters in comic strips at the time (not that there are that many today). Peter started dating Denise in the strip’s very first year – 1988 – and they only broke up once in 13-14 years (that’s real time, not comic strip-time).
For some reason, though, Denise disappeared from Peter’s life in the early ‘00s with no explanation at all. Maybe Bill Amend just wanted Peter to be free to play the field. Comic from The Unofficial FoxTrot Site.
