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I still remember this one seemed very intellectual to me when I was 11: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/02/19/ https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandh

I still remember this one seemed very intellectual to me when I was 11: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/02/19/ https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/02/19/

teekert 8y ago
I still find it intellectual at 36.
- chrshawkes 8y ago
  Bill Watterson retired at 36
  - aidenn0 8y ago
    Damn, when he was my age he'd already been retired 3 years.
    - chrshawkes 8y ago
      ...and worth one hundred million while turning down somewhere in the ballpark of three to five hundred million dollars in potential merchandising deals. Watterson is a class act like no other.
  - BearOso 8y ago
    And he did a good thing with that. Calvin and Hobbes never wanted for quality. We wouldn’t still consider it great literature if it had gone the way of Peanuts or, God forbid, Garfield. It shows he was smart on another level than being just a great cartoonist.
- davesque 8y ago
  I suppose my wording implied otherwise but I do to, at 38.
icebraining 8y ago
Snow was always the canvas for his thoughts on art. My favorite uses that fact for the pun: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1994/12/29 https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1994/12/29
- dTal 8y ago
  I also immediately thought of that one. It has that rare combination of cutting insight and flawless comedic timing.
- qntty 8y ago
  The next one is even better: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/02/20 https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/02/20
  - sammorrowdrums 8y ago
    Beautiful, and now I will forever refer to Trumps movement and the "alt-right" as neo-regionalism.
mar77i 8y ago
Well, the phrasing sure leans towards the intellectual side, however Calvin adopting the artistic attitude (and lingo) before even making a name for himself or adopting any skill whatsoever is not just funny but in a simple way encouraging. Even an 11-year-old might realize that one doesn't just bullshit one's way through life like that. The joke somewhat even reminds me of Tarantino's "Desperado" joke, because said artistic attitude resembles the guy looking for gratitude in the barman on whose bar he's urinating...
- teekert 8y ago
  Funny how one can interpret things so differently. I see a lot of art just like this, like the clothes of the emperor: All nice and well until someone says: Wtf you speak a lot of hefty language but in the end my 4 y/o can do the same thing, but for the hefty language. Sure, Art can make you think and the way you interpret it may teach you something about yourself (that is how I find value in art), but so can the painting of a 4 y/o and a nice river flowing in the distance. Call me barbaric but I appreciate art when it took skill to make it. A nicely constructed, elegant, functional Python class with minimal but readable code, that is (also) art to me. The thing is, I'm often getting away with this opinion because I have a PhD so somehow my intellectualism isn't easily dismissed, it's insane.
  - milquetoastaf 8y ago
    For a PhD you have a pretty philistine stance on art. Seriously, "my 4 y/o can do it" is not "intellectualism," it is the most basic and unimaginative critique of modern and contemporary art
  - throwaway-hn123 8y ago
    Dunning-Kruger in effect. Thanks for the demonstration.
  - cgriswald 8y ago
    Criticizing the art because it’s not technically advanced is like criticizing a Python class because it’s just text on a screen and any four-year-old can put text on a screen. What makes the Python class meaningful to you is the context you bring with you. The world of art is a lot bigger than technically proficient realism.
koolba 8y ago
So many great choices. I think this one is particular apt to anyone who wants create a startup: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2010/02/10 https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2010/02/10
- nkrisc 8y ago
  This also exemplifies what I love about the strip: for a strip that often centers around imagination, it holds itself to that same standard and leaves much to the imagination of the reader. A worse strip would have started with the last panel.

I still remember this one seemed very intellectual to me when I was 11: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/02/19/ https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/02/19/

teekert 8y ago

I still find it intellectual at 36.

chrshawkes 8y ago
Bill Watterson retired at 36
- aidenn0 8y ago
  Damn, when he was my age he'd already been retired 3 years.
  - chrshawkes 8y ago
    ...and worth one hundred million while turning down somewhere in the ballpark of three to five hundred million dollars in potential merchandising deals. Watterson is a class act like no other.
- BearOso 8y ago
  And he did a good thing with that. Calvin and Hobbes never wanted for quality. We wouldn’t still consider it great literature if it had gone the way of Peanuts or, God forbid, Garfield. It shows he was smart on another level than being just a great cartoonist.
davesque 8y ago
I suppose my wording implied otherwise but I do to, at 38.

icebraining 8y ago

Snow was always the canvas for his thoughts on art. My favorite uses that fact for the pun: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1994/12/29 https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1994/12/29

dTal 8y ago
I also immediately thought of that one. It has that rare combination of cutting insight and flawless comedic timing.
qntty 8y ago
The next one is even better: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/02/20 https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/02/20
- sammorrowdrums 8y ago
  Beautiful, and now I will forever refer to Trumps movement and the "alt-right" as neo-regionalism.

mar77i 8y ago

Well, the phrasing sure leans towards the intellectual side, however Calvin adopting the artistic attitude (and lingo) before even making a name for himself or adopting any skill whatsoever is not just funny but in a simple way encouraging. Even an 11-year-old might realize that one doesn't just bullshit one's way through life like that. The joke somewhat even reminds me of Tarantino's "Desperado" joke, because said artistic attitude resembles the guy looking for gratitude in the barman on whose bar he's urinating...

teekert 8y ago
Funny how one can interpret things so differently. I see a lot of art just like this, like the clothes of the emperor: All nice and well until someone says: Wtf you speak a lot of hefty language but in the end my 4 y/o can do the same thing, but for the hefty language. Sure, Art can make you think and the way you interpret it may teach you something about yourself (that is how I find value in art), but so can the painting of a 4 y/o and a nice river flowing in the distance. Call me barbaric but I appreciate art when it took skill to make it. A nicely constructed, elegant, functional Python class with minimal but readable code, that is (also) art to me. The thing is, I'm often getting away with this opinion because I have a PhD so somehow my intellectualism isn't easily dismissed, it's insane.
- milquetoastaf 8y ago
  For a PhD you have a pretty philistine stance on art. Seriously, "my 4 y/o can do it" is not "intellectualism," it is the most basic and unimaginative critique of modern and contemporary art
- throwaway-hn123 8y ago
  Dunning-Kruger in effect. Thanks for the demonstration.
- cgriswald 8y ago
  Criticizing the art because it’s not technically advanced is like criticizing a Python class because it’s just text on a screen and any four-year-old can put text on a screen. What makes the Python class meaningful to you is the context you bring with you. The world of art is a lot bigger than technically proficient realism.

koolba 8y ago

So many great choices. I think this one is particular apt to anyone who wants create a startup: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2010/02/10 https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2010/02/10

nkrisc 8y ago
This also exemplifies what I love about the strip: for a strip that often centers around imagination, it holds itself to that same standard and leaves much to the imagination of the reader. A worse strip would have started with the last panel.