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Is it /lit/?

>> No.17528148

Calvin and Hobbes is one of the greatest literary works of the American century. Anyone who disagrees didn't have a real childhood.

>> No.17528152

Big time

>> No.17528210

>>17528120
absolutely. anyone who disagrees is a pretentious midwit.

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>>17528120
Sort of. Honestly, when I read back through all of it a few years ago, I was surprised at how cheesy a lot of it was. The comic strip format really put constraints on the author's creativity.

It's ashame he couldn't write it in more of a comic format, telling stories with longer arcs, etc. It's be great as a manga.

As it is, when you read it, there are endless short strips of a few panels, all ending with a dumb punchline.

In some ways, I wish he'd written Calvin and Hobbes 30 years later.

>> No.17528257

>>17528209
He could have wrote in longer story arcs if he wanted too, plenty of comics do that, he was ultimately writing for kids like Calvin.

>> No.17528265

>>17528209
>I was surprised at how cheesy a lot of it was
Really? I had the opposite experience. I went back and read C&H and I was surprised by how poignant it was, and it's even quite philosophical at times.

>> No.17528365

yes and so is Krazy Kat -- Herriman is probably America's premiere literary modernist

>> No.17528400

>>17528120
yes the cats feet made me horny

>> No.17528495

>>17528120
Literature is about the artistry of language. Not /lit

>> No.17528625

>>17528120
Is Hobbes based on Thomas Hobbes? Is he based in general?

>> No.17528669

>>17528625
John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes.

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>>17528120
It's the closest that the medium of comics has come to being literature, and is far better than any other daily or even periodical comic book or 'visual novel' (this because it actually works within the form of the comic strip without trying to pretend to be something else or to aim at some superficial pop profundity).

>It's ashame [sic] he couldn't write it in more of a comic format, telling stories with longer arcs, etc. It's be great as a manga.

There were a few longer arcs (pic related), but honestly the smaller one-offs and 2-3 day snippets of story were generally better.

>> No.17528698

>>17528669
Wdhmbt though? I never really understood why he named them after those two

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>>17528209
>It's be great as a manga
this has to be bait

>> No.17528747

>>>/co/
It's fucking retarded. Why does the tiger talk? Tigers don't talk. He should maul that annoying kid, that would be more entertaining.

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>> No.17528762

>>17528747
He does in the last strip, but you have to read all the strips before that for proper buildup.

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>>17528747
He is a stuffed animal, anon.

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>> No.17528777

>>17528698
I think it’s just a way to sound sophisticated. Like if you know who they are you’re in “the know” and that’s meant to conjure a spirit of the old academia. Rereading since having known who exactly Calvin and Hobbes are, hasn’t shown me any indication their respective namesakes resemble their character.

>> No.17528778

>>17528698
Calvin is essentially a philosopher/theologian, he only sees the ideas. Hobbes has a dim view of society and sees the results. They also do touch more directly on their namesakes from time to time throughout the strip, but the names are loose.

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>>17528747
Indeed.

>> No.17528946

>>17528872
So it's just some autistic kid daydreaming as he masturbates with his gay plush tiger? Holy fuck that's even worse.

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>>17528946
Were you never a child, anon?

>> No.17528989

>>17528968
I was and i see no point in going back or pretending there's anything special to that stage of life.

>> No.17529003

>>17528989
Wow. Sorry to hear that you were abused and molested. Childhood was a better for most of us.

>> No.17529037

>>17529003
That came out of nowhere...well, probably not. Hope you get better, unclefucker.

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>>17528946
It got more interesting as Calvin grew up.

>> No.17529084

>“I clearly miscalculated how popular it would be to show Calvin urinating on a Ford logo.”
> “Long after the strip is forgotten, those decals are my ticket to immortality.”
Bill Watterson was a pure lad. Compare to the absolute intentional soullessness branding of garfield, who's design was drawn by charles shultz lmao

>> No.17529122

>>17528728
It's somehow become worse with time.

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;_;

>> No.17529271

>>17529182
this isn't real who gives a shit. This is like caring about the dead bort copypasta or sonichu

>> No.17529285

>>17529271
It's real to me. Too real.

>> No.17529309

>>17529070
never thought i'd see something like this desu. wow. being on this website for so long I thought nothing would ever surprise me.

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>>17528689
>It's the closest that the medium of comics has come to being literature
Nonsense; it just happened to be the last 'great American newspaper comic' and hence the one most of us remember. Strips from the 20th century that surpass C&H in literary quality include Krazy Kat, Little Orphan Annie, Gasoline Alley, Pogo.

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>>17528265
>>17528968
>>17529003
>Posting something inviolable and universally loved on /lit/
>Expecting anything besides facetious negativity in response
Why tho

>> No.17529339

>>17529309
if you haven't been using this website since before 2007 you will always be a newfag.
>wow ever since the internet was sanitized I never thought I would see cartoon porn
are you fucking kidding me dude? How old are you, 15?

>> No.17529345

>>17529182
Wtf is this fan made bullshit?

>> No.17529372

>>17529271
death of the author.

>> No.17529380

>>17528751
This makes the SJW seethe.

>> No.17529423

>>17528689
I always find [sic.] to be passive aggressive

>> No.17529428
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>>17529372

>> No.17529686

>>17529423
It's a very underrated way of throwing shade.

>> No.17529726

>>17528728
This is posted in the philosophy department at my alma matter

>> No.17529734
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this is one of my all time favorites

>> No.17529762

Calvin and Hobbes and Dandelion Wine pretty much sum up childhood for me.

>> No.17530189

>>17528968
I think this is my favorite one.

>> No.17530199

>>17528400
Never change /lit/

>> No.17530220

>>17528786
>tfw you miss universal blandness
Where did it go. Give it back.

>> No.17531688

>>17528737
This would make a good banner for /lit/

>> No.17531727

>>17528737
lmao

>> No.17531777

>>17529428
based

>> No.17531833

>>17528747
the tiger is a stuffed animal.

he's just part of calvin schizo delusions.

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when it comes to professor's door bait comics, early matt groening edges out calvin and hobbes and probably ties the far side

>> No.17531842

>>17531833
Childhood tulpas aren’t schizophrenia (necessarily)
We have different layers of consciousness

>> No.17531924

>>17528120
it's proto frenposting, comfy af. loced them. found them trown at the basement
>>17528209
>It's be great as a manga.
weeb retard kys
>>17528751
this wouldnt be funny todays as normies would think hes right
>>17531688
agreed lol

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>>17532620
>ertu þessi bíllþvottastrákur
XD

>> No.17532756

>>17528689
Do you even know what a visual novel is? Why are you commenting on a medium you haven't even touched once in your entire life.

>> No.17532765

>>17528120
Tom Puss is one of the few literairy comics, but difficult to translate from Dutch.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Puss

>> No.17532805

>>17528257
>could have wrote
Could have written, you waste of oxygen. Learn basic grammar before posting in a literature board.