Man, I miss Calvin & Hobbes. I actually wrote a college paper on the themes and motifs of that daily comic strip, and it got fairly deep. Earned me an A+. But I digress. Found this awesome mashup — which recreates Bill Watterson’s art style with absolute perfection — over at 9gag. It manages to be cute, rebellious, and clever all at once. It’s a t-shirt design drawn by professional illustrator Chris Wahl. The shirt will run you about $22. Read more »
Calvin and Hobbes is the most anti commercial comic strip that I know of. Its creator Bill Watterson stopped with the strip in 1995 after 10 years of creating a daily comic strip of Calvin and Hobbes. He has withdrawn from public eye and never gives an interview. He has been called the J.D. Salinger of the comic strip world. I don’t know of you but when I started reading the newspaper as a kid I started with the comics section which included syndicated strips of Calvin and Hobbes. I must say that I only cared for Calvin and Hobbes, non of the others, which explains why I don’t remember Read more »
