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Life After “Calvin and Hobbes”
- pallas_athena 3y agoRelated: "Collaborating on The Mysteries - Bill Watterson and John Kascht ", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37991049 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37991049
- pbj1968 3y agohttps://archive.ph/CBMea https://archive.ph/CBMea
- neonate 3y agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20231024232529/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/30/the-mysteries-bill-watterson-book-review https://web.archive.org/web/20231024232529/https://www.newyo...
- anthk 3y agoThe last CyB vignette it's the best symbolism to Nietzche's opus. The old values died, here's a blank space to create something new. It's up to you to define those values.
- eunoia 3y ago“Let’s go exploring!”
- anthk 3y agoIndeed.
- fullshark 3y agoThere was an article here recently that claimed it was basically a confession from Waterson that he hated the job and was relieved it was over.
- notRobot 3y agoWould you happen to have a link?
- password4321 3y agoMaybe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37263989 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37263989
- fullshark 3y agoYeah that was it
- khazhoux 3y agoWhen Calvin was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of his home and went into the mountains. There he enjoyed his spirit and his solitude, and for ten years did not weary of it. Until one day, rising with the rosy dawn, he turned to his stuffed animal and spoke to it thus: "Oh, thou great tiger! What would thy happiness be, had thee not those for whom though roars!" -- Thus Spake Calvin
- andrewstuart 3y agoThe most magnificent thing about Calvin and Hobbes is ..... Calvin and Hobbes. The second most magnificent thing is Calvin and Hobbes was never licensed. The third most magnificent thing is it stopped whilst it was awesome instead of being wrung out for every penny. There's no films, no sequels. You can't buy a licensed tshirt with Calvin and Hobbes on it. There's no licensed merchandise. No one has made it into a live action movie. Calvin and Hobbes are not available this month on MacDonalds cups if you buy a second whopper burger. You can't buy plush toys of Hobbes. There isn't a Christmas special TV show. Giant balloon figures of Calvin and Hobbes do not appear in city parades. Imagine if Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit had been kept so pristine.
- abnry 3y agoWas Tolkien alive while LoTR was massively marketed? Hate to say it, but give 50 years, I wouldn't be surprised if Calvin and Hobbes turns into what you described.
- cool_dude85 3y agoDoes Watterson have kids to, how to put it politely, realize the great potential of his iconic IP?
- User23 3y agoJ.R.R. Tolkien himself sold the film rights to United Artists. Also, for what it's worth, it's hard to imagine a better executor than Christopher Tolkien. He basically spent his entire life serving his father's artistic interests.
- faichai 3y agoI honestly find this quite sad. Dude should have lived his own life, but instead lived in the shadow of his father.
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- sdwr 3y ago> Goblins steal a mother’s child and replace it with a ravenous changeling. When the woman asks a neighbor for advice on how to get her child back, she is told to make the changeling laugh, because “when a changeling laughs, that’s the end of him.” The older I get, the more I tend to see literal meaning instead of metaphor. This is pretty good advice for a mother dealing with PPD/derealization/cabin fever.
- pruthvishetty 3y agoWatterson is harder to find than Satoshi Nakamoto.
- gilgoomesh 3y agoThe second and third paragraphs mention 6 events Watterson has been involved in since 2013 which is 6 more appearances than Nakamoto in the same time period.
- ASalazarMX 3y agoUntil Nakamoto is unquestionably identified, we can't be sure how many events he has been involved in since 2013.
- defrost 3y agoOr them .. this is a nome de guerre from deep in heart of Nicolas Bourbaki territory. No majority consensus to act can explain a great deal.
- The_Blade 3y agoif i could go back 6 months i would name my adopted shelter cats Calvin and Hobbes instead of Kendall and Shiv but alea iacta est and they are more needy than 16th century philosophical
- E39M5S62 3y agoMy Cairn Terrier is named Calvin. He's little, blonde, and a troublemaker!
- ProllyInfamous 3y agoYour cats do NOT care what you refer to them as, nor if you mis-gender them =D At least, mine don't. Le Meow. Le Sigh.
- jpmoral 3y agoJust introduced my son to Calvin and Hobbes. Still amazingly smart and funny.
- rayrey 3y agoCalvin pees a lot from all the stickers I see
- w-ll 3y agoI was just gonna say, i actually havent seen them in years, but it was always a funny "meme" before times
- goodboyjojo 3y agolove calvin and hobbes. its way better than garfeild imo
- slowhadoken 3y agowhenever Bill Watterson crosses my mind I always hope when he passes away that Calvin and Hobbes doesn’t fall into the hands of a corporation.
- voisin 3y agoIf he cared, he would transfer the rights into a trust for the benefit of some charity with some strict constating documentation that prevents misuse. But this is only good until the rights naturally expire.
- Uhhrrr 3y agoThe bit about the new book is interesting, but there's no interview or new info about Watterson himself.
- 6stringmerc 3y agoFuck Bill Watterson for talking big about the importance of art and then ditching it to go ride his bike in Ohio. Fuck him I’m bitter. He didn’t have to be a hypocrite. Now it’s my biggest takeaway from his career. “Dad, why did Bill Watterson lie to me all those years?” “Son, it builds character to learn that some of your heroes are actually really shitty human beings.”
- paholg 3y agoSorry, what? Him making something you like doesn't entitle you to his output for the rest of time.
- ProllyInfamous 3y agoMy favorite references in Kurt Vonnegut's world are two family members: his early-deceased sister, who taught him that "nobody HAS to use their talents;" and his Uncle Alex, who taught him that "if this isn't nice, I don't know what is" [suitable to be said at any time, any moment]. Your world is nothing more than your perception(s).
- dang 3y ago"Please don't fulminate." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- ted_bunny 3y agoI was a verbally precocious kid, and I swear C&H had at least a small hand in that.