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Calvin & Hobbes Rarities

If The Complete Calvin and Hobbes wasn’t enough boy and tiger action for you, a cartoonist named Peter Paltridge has amassed a collection of images of rare Calvin & Hobbes art (including legitimate merchandise) and other rarities from the elusive Bill Watterson, such as some editorial cartoons lampooning the state of comic strips themselves: Bill Watterson’s Rarest.

UPDATE:
It looks like the link above has unceremoniously taken much of its content from the hard work of Tim, the proprietor of the online Calvin & Hobbes: Magic on Paper, a rather thorough museum of all things Calvin — including The Derkins Library, a collection of speeches by and articles about Watterson, and the source of most of that rare Watterson artwork. (via MetaFilter)

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  • http://joemills.edublogs.org/2006/08/29/calvin-and-hobbes/ Joe Mills | Calvin and Hobbes

    [...] Well, I did not think I would be writing about another “retro” topic, but I was once again reminded about one of my favorites as a child. Next to Garfield, Calvin and Hobbes was easily my favorite comic strip. (Thanks to Drawn! for posting this article about the artist, Bill Watterson.) I have MANY clippings of the strip in various scrapbooks. Wikipedia does a nice job summarizing the strip. It even chronicles my favorite subject matter: Calvin also builds snowmen; but these are usually grotesque, monstrous deformed creatures (e.g., two-headed snowmen, a snow monster with tentacles devouring a bunch of snowmen, a snowman who grabs another snowman’s head and uses it as a bowling ball, a snowman who scoops snow cones out of the back of a dead snowman, snowmen getting hanged, a buried giant snow monster destroying other snow men or holding their heads in its hands, and a prostrate snowman seemingly beneath the parked family car, surrounded by a host of worried “snow-onlookers”, etc.) In one storyline, Calvin builds a snowman and brings it to life using the power “invested in him by the mighty and awful snow demons”. The snowman immediately turns evil (reminiscent of the film Frankenstein) and becomes a “deranged mutant killer monster snow goon” by giving itself two heads and three arms. The snow goon then makes copies of itself, which Calvin eventually defeats by spraying water on them while they slept and freezing them solid. However, Calvin was caught by his parents and had to explain why he was outside when he should’ve been asleep (which wasn’t successful). [...]

  • http://theblathering.com/?p=393 tragic: the blathering » Blog Archive » a couple of entirely unrelated things…

    [...] With the flood destruction of my Complete Calvin & Hobbes, I’ve been quite overjoyed to find this collection of rare Calvin & Hobbes strips and outtakes. Thanks to Drawn! for the hook-up. [...]

  • http://pajamazzon.com/?p=862 pajamazzon.com » Calvin & Hobbes Rarities

    [...] I just ran across this entry over on Drawn! today and it brought back a lot of memories about one of my favorite comic strips of all time, Calvin and Hobbes. [...]

  • http://www.daganm.blogspot.com/ Dagan

    WOW! :)
    It’s a real treat to see some rare ‘Watterson’ stuff, especially those unprinted or RARELY printed ‘Calvin’ strips…
    And I NEVER knew those liscensed calendars existed!!!… missed the boat on those as a teenager, huh? ;)
    Thanks for the tasty ‘C&H’ tribute… absolutely AWESOME!
    -Dagan

  • http://www.daganm.blogspot.com Dagan

    WOW! :)
    It’s a real treat to see some rare ‘Watterson’ stuff, especially those unprinted or RARELY printed ‘Calvin’ strips…
    And I NEVER knew those liscensed calendars existed!!!… missed the boat on those as a teenager, huh? ;)
    Thanks for the tasty ‘C&H’ tribute… absolutely AWESOME!
    -Dagan

  • http://www.oldmanmusings.com/2006/09/01/rare-bill-watterson-art/ Old Man Musings » Rare Bill Watterson Art

    [...] (via Drawn!) Posted In: Humor, Flashback, Cartoon, Art   |   [...]

  • http://joemills.com/blog/?p=44 Joe Mills » Calvin and Hobbes

    [...] to Garfield, Calvin and Hobbes was easily my favorite comic strip. (Thanks to Drawn! for posting this article about the artist, Bill Watterson.) I have MANY clippings of the strip in various [...]