Does this hit an emotional spot in you? I was surprised at my reaction.

[DonRedwood]

Our Dear Friends Calvin and Hobbes have returned in a new painting by the artist.

Wow....I am amazed at the "TWANG" my heart did when I saw this. I've never felt nostalgia for a cartoon before. I guess that just sums up how special this comic was to my generation.

[NYC_SKP]

1. Imagine if Calvin finds a mate and there's a new little Calvin on the way?

Now THAT would be magnificent!

[WeRQ4U]

37. Well then you should check out "Hobbes and Bacon" !!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/archive/2011/05/10/hobbes-and-bacon/

Made me cry the first time I read it. C&H were a huge part of my childhood and are still a large section of the bookshelf. Timeless stuff.

[NYC_SKP]

38. OMG that's so cool!

How did I ever miss that!

Thank you!

[WeRQ4U]

47. Of course.

And I read something about the strip some time ago and I do know that Calvin's wife is Susie Derkins....of course.

[WinstonSmith4740]

67. Thank you...

I never knew this existed! I loved C&H.

[WeRQ4U]

81. You're very welcome.

The artists hasn't done any of them for quite some time. Hopefully there will be more.

[The Magistrate]

2. I Still Read Collections Of That Strip, Sir

Best comic ever.

[DonRedwood]

3. I think i agree

my mom cut them out and sent them to me when i went away to college. She loved him too.9***************************************************************

(extra letter brought to you by our new kitten who, apparently, had something to say)

[Frustratedlady]

4. Especially the snowmen.

I laughed so hard at some of those, I had tears. Wild imagination, for sure.

[The Magistrate]

5. Oh, God, Yes, Ma'am

And the bicycle....

[11 Bravo]

26. Indeed, sir. And Rosalyn the baby-sitter as well.

I now find my self sitting at my computer, chuckling at memories.

[spooky3]

41. And his friend Suzy.

[longship]

29. And here are some of those snowmen.

[sarge43]

33. The snowmen are works of genius.

I laugh just thinking about them.

[skip fox]

52. I take this as a recommendation. from an intelligent source.

I might not buy a book, but I will now attend to this strip.

[Adsos Letter]

6. It did. Interesting things, emotion and memory. n/t

[deutsey]

7. I re-read Watterson's Kenyon commencement speech the other day

http://web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/C-H-speech.html

Great stuff.

His comic strip was the best cartoon ever.

[SheilaT]

51. Thanks for that link. I'd never read it before.

I've always somewhat regretted that Watterson never allowed Calvin & Hobbes merchandizing, but he was right not to. It would have cheapened the strip and the concept, and possibly forced him to write different, more corporately acceptable strips.

[deutsey]

75. I guess a sad unintended consequence of his refusal to merchandize C&H

is the prevelance of those "Calvin urinating on..." stickers you see on the back windshields of cars and trucks. As a C&H fan, I've always hated those.

Watterson wryly once commented: "I clearly miscalculated how popular it would be to show Calvin urinating on a Ford logo."

[Ohio Joe]

8. Yes... Yes it does

Thanks for posting, appreciated.

[Blue_Tires]

9. I didn't know it was from the artist himself

at first I was thinking "I've seen a million fan art pieces better than that!"

[Orrex]

10. Can't make out the artist's signature--is that from Watterson?

Cute in any case. Didn't make me tear up, but it's a nice sentiment.

[mac56]

21. I'm unconvinced that this is by Bill Watterson.

One year ago a painting surfaced that was merely rumored to be done by him. It appeared all over the Internet. So based on the lack of Web hoopla, I'm skeptical.

I'm a big fan, by the way.

http://namebrandketchup.wordpress.com/2011/06/16/a-little-kid-and-a-stuffed-tiger/

http://namebrandketchup.wordpress.com/2013/04/27/relationships-are-games-of-calvinball/

[deutsey]

23. Same here, but it's a cute painting, nonetheless

[spooky3]

42. No--it is by "comedian and illustrator Craig Mahoney" -- see link inside

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/8737723/Grown-up-Calvin-Hobbes-You-ll-cry

[DonRedwood]

58. I hunted it down

It is by Craig Mahoney.

[Orrex]

64. Thanks, but I hope that you didn't hunt too hard!

A couple of people revealed his name in this very thread!

[DonRedwood]

68. I saw that afterwards. :0) You gotta do your homework on DU!

Still been a nice conversation about a really good comic strip.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

79. Trust but verify!!!

[Aristus]

11. Yeah, it had kind of a "Toy Story 3" vibe to it.

My all-time favorite comic strip; narrowly edging out 'Peanuts'.

[sinkingfeeling]

12. I cried during 'Toy Story 3'!

[Aristus]

13. Me too.

The scene where they are all in the shredder, and they all hold hands...

Shattering...

[SomeGuyInEagan]

39. Then this one will get to you as well (in a good way)

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(My own seven-year-old daughter - who has no shortage of stuffed "lovies" - has been asking me lately if I had a teddy bear and if I still have it ... yes, I did ... and sadly, I do not).

[LongTomH]

62. That picture has a lovely, sweet, sadness to it that pulls at my heart strings!

[AtheistCrusader]

16. Damn.

Came here just to say that.

[hfojvt]

14. pretty sad to think

that Calvin grew up and put his buddy in a box

I imagined him as more of a lost boy.

After all, he was like seven years old for about a decade.

I mean, come on. Peanuts ran for like 50 years and Charlie Brown was NEVER enough of a blockhead to take Snoopy to the vet to have him put down even though he was over 300 years old in dog years. Good grief.

[madokie]

15. The best damn comic strip ever.

I damn near cried when he announced there would be no more.

Nowadays I love the comic strip Pickles

I'm 65 and learned to read reading the comics in the newspaper all those years ago.

[mountain grammy]

18. Me too, madokie.

[RedCappedBandit]

57. I poured over my collection over and over and OVER

as a kid. I LOVE calvin and hobbes. I think the strip is hugely responsible for the person I am today.


...For better or worse, LOL.

[quinnox]

17. nope

never understood the appeal of calvin and hobbes

[DreamGypsy]

19. Puff the Magic Dragon

A dragon lives forever but not so little boys
Painted wings and giant rings make way for other toys.
One grey night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more
And Puff that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar.

His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain,
Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane.
Without his life-long friend, puff could not be brave,
So Puff that mighty dragon sadly slipped into his cave.

But Calvin and Hobbs haven't stopped their adventures. We know where they are from this recent NASA photo..

[awoke_in_2003]

46. That song always makes me sad. nt

[Moostache]

20. My all-time favorite strip by far...

I was devastated when it went away for good, and in fact I shortly after stopped even reading the comics sections in the newspaper...sadly, the entire newspaper itself is gone from my life as I get all of my news and local information from the internet now. I see Calvin and Hobbes stuff every once in a while though and it always brings me a warm nostalgia of a bygone era.

Thanks for posting the picture!

[SCVDem]

22. Since I cancelled print newspapers

I had to subscribe to Comics.com and Daily Ink for my fix.

I get my daily Calvin plus this week, Lio is chasing Calvin in an extended storyline.

[bike man]

24. No. nt

[Aerows]

25. Beautiful

My heart did a twang, too

[Shrike47]

27. Loved Calvin and Hobbes and also Bloom County.

We have the book collections, of course.

[awoke_in_2003]

48. Thumbs up to both...

especially Bloom County

[DonRedwood]

59. I hadn't thought of Bloom COunty for a long time

I forgot how good that was!

[forestpath]

28. Yes, very emotional...but my reaction didn't surpise me.

I still miss Calvin & Hobbes.

[calimary]

45. With you on that, forestpath.

It affected me and I wasn't surprised at all.

I just will never forget that last panel on the Sunday on which the final Calvin & Hobbes was running - them sledding off down the hill together, excited about the ride ahead. Made me cry then. Makes me feel like crying now.

LOVED that strip.

[handmade34]

30. still have them on the bookshelf

my son's inner artist was inspired by the cartoons and we all appreciate them...



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[nolabear]

31. Interestingly, it's by comedian Craig Mahoney.

He's not a half bad artist, eh?

[mac56]

32. Ah.

Thanks.

[station agent]

35. Better than a certain former president

who has taken up the "arts".

[RedCappedBandit]

54. Thanks for the clarification. That changes my reaction, a bit.

[DonRedwood]

60. Me too

But while I was driving home from work I started thinking about my childhood Teddy Bear. The last I saw him I'd headed off to college and he was in the back of the closet in a box. I never saw him again.

So, I find it pretty funny that this post got into the back of my mind and 8 hours later I'm daydreaming about a stuffed bear I haven't seen since 1982.

Teddy was a good bear. Protected me from ghosts EVERY single night of my childhood.

[AsahinaKimi]

34. I always loved Calvin and Hobbes..

But this image reminds me of TOY STORY 3.

[d_r]

50. me too

that's what I was thinking of.

[Sheldon Cooper]

36. My dad and I both loved that strip.

Dad pronounced it 'Calvin and Hobbiss'.

[DonRedwood]

63. After I went away to college my mom sent them to me in an envelope every couple of weeks

Still, to this day, I'll open an old book or be digging around in an old box and find clipped out calvin and hobbes. I always read them, smile, send some love my mom's way, then put them back. I hope to be finding them still when I'm 100!

[joeybee12]

40. I miss them!

[colorado_ufo]

43. My favorite punch line . . .

"Some days even your lucky rocketship underwear doesn't help . . ." Calvin

"Well, you've done all you can . . ." Hobbes

That comic hung on my office wall for years and years, until the remodel.

[susanna]

70. One of my favorites...

was one where Calvin was wearing a sheet as a superhero cape. He was running, gaining speed, and twirled up in the air saying "THIS IS A JOB FOR...."

In the next frame, Calvin is lying with the sheet tangled around him, prone on the lawn. You see his frowning face in the next frame saying, "...someone else"

I had that on my desk at work for years. I used it as a method of communication when I was asked something ridiculous. Good times.

[Stonepounder]

44. Pride of place on my bookshelf

is the 3-volume, slipcased, complete Calvin and Hobbs. My wife, bless her, got it for me for Christmas the year it came out. Calvin was just so ... me. How could anyone forget his transmorgrifier (sp?) Or his daydreams in class of saving the universe? Best. Comic. Ever!

[bullwinkle428]

49. Meh...it was kind of entertaining, but it was no "Mallard Filmore".

[RedCappedBandit]

56. ....

[marble falls]

77. Mallard Filmore is the most mean sprited and bitter thing to be called a comic strip....

I can't even work up a joke about it.

[DeadLetterOffice]

53. I miss the cartoon less than I should...

...because it seems I am raising Calvin. My almost-nine year old is Calvin's spiritual doppleganger. Complete with snow-people carnage, requests to use inappropriate power tools, and a dislike of 90% of the food I try to get him to eat.

[RedCappedBandit]

55. Yeah, but not as much as if it were Watterson's work.

[aikoaiko]

61. Yes. Yes it did.

sniffle

[RVN VET]

65. Your generation? Hell, what about mine?

You didn't have to BE a kid to love that strip. Just had to have enough kid left inside for Calvin and his friend to resurrect!

When Calvin and Hobbs went off the page, it was like the day the music died. (And, yes, I was a kid when the plane crashed.)

[bravenak]

66. Yep. I miss childhood.

I like this.http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/archive/2011/05/12/hobbes-and-bacon-002/
http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/archive/2011/05/10/hobbes-and-bacon/

[susanna]

69. Wow - it sure did! What a great story they had.

Thank you so much for posting this, DR! Off to find my Calvin and Hobbes books...

[Separation]

71. Calvin & Hobbes and The Far Side

The greatest comic strips ever.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

72. sure does hit my melancholy place

Seeing Hobbes like that is what does it to me.

[tularetom]

73. My grandkids think Calvin is that kid who's always peeing on something

They have no idea how great that strip was.

[backscatter712]

74. Bill Waterson, IIRC, absolutely hates those Calvin-peeing stickers.

He absolutely refused to allow Calvin and Hobbes to be commercialized and merchandised, and he sues the pants off of people selling those stickers.

[marble falls]

78. Good for him. I hope he wins every single suit to the maximum buck allowed.

[graham4anything]

76. Reminds me of Toy Story 3. (a movie made for parents).

[tblue37]

80. WOW! It caused me to have to choke back tears! nt