the essential calvin and hobbes a calvin and hobbes treasury

My dad gave me this book Christmas 2009, and I prior to reading it last week, I had not experienced Calvin and Hobbes. I’ll never forget it, and late at night, when I am dipping my peanut butter and jelly into my hot chocolate, I’ll have one of my Calvin and Hobbes books open so that I can stain the pages with the purple of some yummy Welch’s grape jelly. So I'll just leave you with the firmest, most heartfelt thank you that I have in me: thank you for that little corner of joy you carved into my world. I know that my request will never reach you, and that, if it did, you'd probably never even consider the possibility, but I know you could do the 'parenting thing' better than all your peers, just as you did the 'kid thing' better than anyone else. I want to see how well Calvin was able to fight off his indoctrination I imagine he’s one of those rare folks who didn’t join the mainstream, who somehow continued to live on his own terms, but my imagination aside, I am dying to see what he became for you. But I don't want this comic to be about the kids, I want it to be about Calvin. I want to see Calvin as a Dad, and I want his son (or daughter) with a beaten up, super ratty, devilish-as-ever Hobbes. Now that I am forty, and I have a precocious little Calvin of my own making explosive sounds with his mouth as he blows up his LEGO creations (as I write this, in fact), and my little Calvin’s twin sister, who happens to be a lot like Susie, I would love it if you came out of retirement and gave us just one year of Calvin and Hobbes and Son (or Daughter). It was also a fabulous way to relax my brain (though not too much) amidst all the literature I was devouring at a frightening rate.īut I have a request. My youthful imaginary friends were still fresh in my mind, and my current imaginary friends were just taking hold, and your strip gave me something to relate to, someone to cheer for, a place where it was okay to turn dreary realties of the world into exciting fantasies and be proud of that ability all at the same time. I was fourteen when you started your opus, and I was close enough to my own hyper-imaginative childhood to connect at a visceral level.

There's implied sadness in the explicit joy you gave us, and it makes Calvin and Hobbes a true masterpiece.

Your precocious Calvin was what every kid with an overactive imagination is in their own heads, but you also gave us the view of what the rest of the world sees in these kids and does to try and beat the imagination out of them. I can't believe it's been gone for 16 years now.

Your decade long run of Calvin and Hobbes was the greatest run of any comic strip in the history of comic strips, and you made the right choice putting an end to it when you did.

The essential calvin and hobbes a calvin and hobbes treasury