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Crockett Johnson

The Crockett Johnson Homepage is a nice smallish tribute to the man who created the comic strip Barnaby (the forerunner to Calvin & Hobbes) and wrote such celebrated childrens’ books as Harold and the Purple Crayon.

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    I am too old for Harold but Barnaby brought back so many memories. I just wish I know where I left that magic cigar…

  • http://www.noded.com/noded jr

    I am too old for Harold but Barnaby brought back so many memories. I just wish I know where I left that magic cigar…

  • http://cebidae.blogspot.com/ David Dean

    Can you explain the Calvin and Hobbes link? I wasn’t aware of this connection, and cannot find anything about it on the internets. The wikipedia article for Calvin and Hobbes mentions “Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts, Percy Crosby’s Skippy, Berke Breathed’s Bloom County, and George Herriman’s Krazy Kat” as influences but not Barnaby, and the Barnaby article doesn’t mention Calvin and Hobbes at all.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnaby

  • http://cebidae.blogspot.com David Dean

    Can you explain the Calvin and Hobbes link? I wasn’t aware of this connection, and cannot find anything about it on the internets. The wikipedia article for Calvin and Hobbes mentions “Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts, Percy Crosby’s Skippy, Berke Breathed’s Bloom County, and George Herriman’s Krazy Kat” as influences but not Barnaby, and the Barnaby article doesn’t mention Calvin and Hobbes at all.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnaby

  • http://cebidae.blogspot.com/ David Dean

    Hmm.. that appears to have broken the calvin link, try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes

  • http://cebidae.blogspot.com David Dean

    Hmm.. that appears to have broken the calvin link, try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin\_and\_Hobbes

  • http://www.robotjohnny.com/ Johnny

    David, people have often compared Calvin & Hobbes to Barnaby because of the subject matter: a precocious young boy and his imaginary friend. It’s not a direct influence on Watterson himself, who claims to never have heard of the strip (see this interview)

  • http://www.robotjohnny.com Johnny

    David, people have often compared Calvin & Hobbes to Barnaby because of the subject matter: a precocious young boy and his imaginary friend. It’s not a direct influence on Watterson himself, who claims to never have heard of the strip (see this interview)

  • http://mandolindsay.blogspot.com/ Lindsay

    I love that book.

  • http://mandolindsay.blogspot.com Lindsay

    I love that book.

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