https://www.amazon.com/dp/1449433251
Opted for the paperback myself which I don't do but it seemed more fitting for the material and I don't regret it. These are extremely high quality paperbacks with very nice heavy duty glossy pages, well-bound and with beautiful illustrations. Haven't checked the others yet but the first one has a really illuminating 20-page preface by Watterson explaining his life and how he ended up doing C&H and early, unpublished works and also pictures of his cat.
!bookworms you are LITERALLY LOSING MONEY by not picking this up
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Noir Calvin were some of the best strips
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I remember laughing out loud at that line as a young kid
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!dinochads
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Dont mind me, just doing what i usually do on a carp post.
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Apparently that drawing of Calvin isn't Watterson's, and he doesn't like it.
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i'm tempted
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The preface alone is so interesting and Watterson's fanatically antisocial nature make it such a treat to get all that from him
But besides that you get a gorgeous box set of every C&H that will ever exist
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I got it!
I wish the capy could do affiliate links so he could get a little from stuff like this
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"I wish jannies got paid!!"
What is wrong with you
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Capy deserves it
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I strongly disagree
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It's worth it.
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I want it in hardcover....
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He edited a strip about Calvin asking his mom if he's adopted to being about being a test tube baby because later on he adopted a kid irl. Literally unreadable
I got all these from the Scholastic catalog at school and lost them all (not my pic)
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In the preface he talks about how he moved out west to bumfrick nowhere and changed all his contact info and stuff because people seeing his work and recognizing him unnerved him and he liked to imagine he was just doing the strip to entertain his wife
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He won at life. Do exactly what he wants professionally for a few years, make his artistic statement, get filthy rich, frick off out of the spotlight, syndication neetbux roll in and do whatever, whenever. All well earned honestly
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And he never sold out. Absolute legend and King
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Yes he did, Remember the 2003 movie?
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Larson
basically did the same thing.
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Oh cool picture in the edit! I didn't own most of those (we were poor) so I'm thinking there's gonna be a lot of material I haven't seen in this set owo
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Honestly these books are the entire serialization like twice over. A bunch of stuff got reprinted in different aspect ratios and color/b&w. Bottom right is the book version of an exhibition that they did with some of his commentary
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You were too poor for paperback books?
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BIPOC I grew up believing that hot dogs in baked beans were a fancy treat
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so that's why yer taste in things is so bad!
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pittsburgh more like POOPSburgh amirite
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Good job just now exposing yourself as absolutely definitely white.
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So proud to see how far you've come!
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It's still around for the little alphaggots
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God I remember all those covers so vividly.
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Rdrama has now made me buy The Complete Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Complete Calvin and Hobbes (just got the hardcover on eBay for $95), and now I'm looking into which complete Far Side to get.
Is... is this all just a psyop?
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rDrama has recommended me a bunch of shit that I've bought and really liked too
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They've got me back into collecting good stuff!
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Im still genuinely suprised that america
never 
had a disney 
comic 
book series, like you guys had Duck Tales but in most of europe 
we have the comic 
books, where 
every edition is several stories, usually short 
and sweet 
disconnected ones, sometimes episodic, but with usually the same themes
the most unique out of the italian
ones is by far "Paperinik", where 
donald 
duck is effectively Batman 
but poor and unlucky, and his gadgets are made by Archimede Pitagorico (the itlian name for Gyro Gearloose, which is an infinitely worse name), theres even several long episodic stories of many kinds, involving anything 
from leagues of superheroes and villains, all played by other classic 
characters, or interesting 
sci-fi ones that get more serious, it's good shit
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I got the hardcover collection as a kid and read it about a dozen times. Best comic ever made and nothing else comes even close. In fact, I think I'll start reading it again tonight!
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I have the box and while its an excellent collection the boxed set is way too fricking huge to fit on any shelf or even a coffee table wtf
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Darn nice, I think i got my hardcover set when it was on sale a couple years ago.
Does any comic or book have a persistent legacy like C&H, without it also being sold as Disneyesque goyslop ( via movies, tv shows, trinkets in stores...); IDK if I can think of any tbh
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Peanuts is it I think; Watterson fricking loves Peanuts too
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Dude won't sell the rights, so it's safe from perversion as long as he lives. We'll see what happens to the rights after he dies.
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The Far Side
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Most of them are sitting on my comic book shelf of my bookcase
I haven't opened them in years but those and the Far Sides were my childhood
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Man, Bill Watterson is such an absolute chad.
He made what is probably the best comic strip of all time, quit after 10 years when he felt he'd done everything he wanted and just fricked off. Never jumped the shark, never sold out, just stubbornly insisted on his artistic vision and integrity above all other considerations. Bonus chad points for just ignoring journos pestering him.
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bros gotta unnerstand
watterson was warrior sage
he showed us
you can go up against Rich people
and win
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I would buy this, but I still have probably all of them, or at least most of them, from my childhood.
This was definitely my favorite print comic though. And my old optometrist used to have a bunch in his office so I'd sometimes show up a bit early and just read them for half an hour lmao.
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@Marth have the hardback one, it's a great collection
@Marth love sucking peepee
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I got my C&H hardcovers like a decade ago.
The preface you mentioned sounds interesting though, I don't know if my edition has that.
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Thank you Carp
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Calvin and hobbes is what got me started on reading.
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i already have all the books. and a lot of the collections which are just the books i already have.
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It's either this guy or the far side guy who does the LA times crossword on occasion. Usually I like them but the last one was a bit eh.
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myanonamouse or bilbliotik
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Oh shid I haven't logged into my account on that in like 3 years
Last time I tried logging back in after a long absence I was interrogated on irc
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Cringe
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Snapshots:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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I have a hard bound triple volume Calvin & Toss edition, as well as for Far Toss.
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Watterson=God
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Bill GODerson
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They're releasing a 7 volume portable compendium over the next couple of years which is likely why this is half off. I'm trying to decide whether to get this or start buying that set as each volume gets released
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I wish I still had my C&H collection but it was all lost in a flood.
Nowhere to put this set in my house =/
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Snagged it, thanks! Grew up with both, better days
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Oh heck yeah.
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