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Summary: supple
Review: Although comic strips were originally used solely as entertainment to sell newspapers, people like Bill Watterson have shown it can be used as a true medium for art. Although quite entertaining, I assure you, "Calvin and Hobbes" gets past just simple observations and shows Watterson's underlying thoughts, philosophies, and so on through his characters. His characters are quite different, but compliment each other for the sake of the strip. Considering most art gives you SOME background information on the artist, and generally there is nothing to go on concerning comic strip artists (for the masses), Watterson makes great, understandable, subtle points. These ponderings take on new levels and truly have aesthetic acheivement, as far as I am concerned. If it interests you at all, buy a "Calvin and Hobbes" book. With just a remote appreciation for Watterson does, there is always a lot to appreciate.
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Summary: supple
Review: Although comic strips were originally used solely as entertainment to sell newspapers, people like Bill Watterson have shown it can be used as a true medium for art. Although quite entertaining, I assure you, "Calvin and Hobbes" gets past just simple observations and shows Watterson's underlying thoughts, philosophies, and so on through his characters. His characters are quite different, but compliment each other for the sake of the strip. Considering most art gives you SOME background information on the artist, and generally there is nothing to go on concerning comic strip artists (for the masses), Watterson makes great, understandable, subtle points. These ponderings take on new levels and truly have aesthetic acheivement, as far as I am concerned. If it interests you at all, buy a "Calvin and Hobbes" book. With just a remote appreciation for Watterson does, there is always a lot to appreciate.
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Summary: A Treasure!
Review: Another great slab of chuckles and fun from Bill Watterson's master of insults and silly repartie, the irrepresible Calvin and his stuffed tiger (to everyone in his world) Hobbes.although you are laughing at his antics, in the back of your mid you think Calvin needs some "Real" friends.
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Summary: Simply THE BEST
Review: Any of the books on Calvin and Hobbes are great. This book is especially awesome. You won't regret buying it and you won't want to put it down. You will laugh so herd that you will cry. Excellent book.
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Summary: Laughter galore
Review: As with the other Calvin and Hobbes books, I found my shoulders shaking and sides hurting from laughing so hard. For a kid like Calvin, there really is treasure everywhere. For the reader, there seems to be laughter everywhere Calvin goes. Great fun.
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Summary: A great comic!
Review: Bill Waterson is argudably one of the best comic writers out there. Even through his retirement, he has made great books of past comics featuring his Calvin and Hobbes characters. I laugh and laugh at these comics he creates and I sometimes wonder how he comes up with such brilliant ideas sometimes with the storylines of some of the strips. Calvin, one of his best known characters, is the trouble-making kid in the school. He is funny and imaginative and likes to make funa and games with his "real" pet friend Hobbes. Through the comics, you can see the relationship between a stuffed animal and a human. In this comic though, Hobbes "comes to life" in Calvins eyes. The things that Calvin can sometimes get involved in is so hilarious and sometimes out of this world. I guarantee that anyone that loves comics will fall in love with this one and should definitely buy this book to start their collection of classic comics. All of Bill Waterson's comic books are very well done and very professional. His work is his life and it shows the time and consideration it took to make these characters come to life. Thank you Mr. Waterson for creating such a great comic and thatnk you people for reading my review!
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Summary: this book is treasure
Review: Bill Waterson once again turns out a masterpiece with this comic strip. calvin and hobbes make you laugh a mile a minute and have some surprisingly intelligent ideas. Waterson is a true geinous
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Summary: Calvin and the Snowmen
Review: Every "Calvin and Hobbes" book contains wonderful insight into our society, children, and parents in general. Bill Watterson has an excellent way of looking at us from a slightly twisted child's point of view, but a child who has to be a genius or near-genius. This collection contains some of the best winter strips that Watterson ever created. The images of a snow man worshipping Calvin are funny, especially in the last portion of the strip. In another strip Calvin has created a group of small snow men, and has taken another one to the roof as a potential suicide. While this strip sounds very twisted, it's also humorous. Another winter strip sums up the parents feelings as they note that Calvin's activities have led to the neighbors planting really big trees along the boundaries of their property. Hobbes is an integral part of Calvin's life, ranging from insulting to supporting to the poignant. One of the best poignant strips is when Hobbes takes Calvin out to the school bus while it's raining, carrying an umbrella for him. Soon Calvin's parents look out the window to see Hobbes as a stuff animal with an umbrella tucked under one arm. Calvin's father goes out to retrieve Hobbes and then we see another image of Calvin sitting in school staring at the clock, clearly worrying about Hobbes in the rain. There are quite a few collections of "Calvin and Hobbes." Of the eight or nine collections that I have I have found every one to be a worthy addition to my library and hope to eventually have them all. Of the "Calvin and Hobbes" collections I have this one is one of the best.
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Summary: Calvin and the Snowmen
Review: Every "Calvin and Hobbes" book contains wonderful insight into our society, children, and parents in general. Bill Watterson has an excellent way of looking at us from a slightly twisted child's point of view, but a child who has to be a genius or near-genius. This collection contains some of the best winter strips that Watterson ever created. The images of a snow man worshipping Calvin are funny, especially in the last portion of the strip. In another strip Calvin has created a group of small snow men, and has taken another one to the roof as a potential suicide. While this strip sounds very twisted, it's also humorous. Another winter strip sums up the parents feelings as they note that Calvin's activities have led to the neighbors planting really big trees along the boundaries of their property. Hobbes is an integral part of Calvin's life, ranging from insulting to supporting to the poignant. One of the best poignant strips is when Hobbes takes Calvin out to the school bus while it's raining, carrying an umbrella for him. Soon Calvin's parents look out the window to see Hobbes as a stuff animal with an umbrella tucked under one arm. Calvin's father goes out to retrieve Hobbes and then we see another image of Calvin sitting in school staring at the clock, clearly worrying about Hobbes in the rain. There are quite a few collections of "Calvin and Hobbes." Of the eight or nine collections that I have I have found every one to be a worthy addition to my library and hope to eventually have them all. Of the "Calvin and Hobbes" collections I have this one is one of the best.
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Summary: Deep fun!
Review: Fans of Calvin & Hobbes who used to read the newspaper strip in the 80s and 90s will find great pleasure in reading this collection of C&H comics. These witty comics about the 6-year old Calvin and his stuffed tiger Hobbes, named after the famous philosophers, will amuse people of all ages. The perceptiveness and humor of Watterson deserve the highest of cartoon awards, while his artistic creations exude hilarity. This cartoon is perhaps one of the most piercing yet funny critiques of modern society. More daydreams and more weird inventions from the wide imagination of Calvin. Contains all the usual characters, but more elaborate and more philosophical strips. Note that there are two series of C&H collections: individual wide-format albums, each covering an entire year of strips (will call it "regular"), and the vertical aspect ratio "treasury series" which covers selected comics from two regular C&H books. Note that C&H ran for a year in newspapers, so there's 10 regular books and 5 treasury books. Though the cartoons are slightly smaller in the treasury collection, each treasury book is far thicker and contains more strips than a regular book, and is furthermore less expensive, so treasury books are a real bargain. "There's Treasure Everywhere" belongs to the regular series and was published in 1996.
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