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 Amoeboid
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 Calvin and Hobbes, Farside, and the sad book store kitteh. 
#16442914 - 06/26/12 09:21 PM (10 years, 11 months ago) |
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I just picked up a collection of both Calvin and Hobbes and Farside at the local used book store. I'm new to Calvin and Hobbes but I remember reading Farside all the time growing up. I don't understand how Gary Larson can make one image and caption into something so funny and memorable. I remember seeing one of his which consisted of nothing but a penguin lying on its side and looking at a banana peel on the ground. A banana peel and a penguin... who would've thought?
 
Calvin and Hobbes is good too although I only started reading that one. These collections might be my constant companions for a while. They seem to make me smile when little else can.
I also saw a sad fat kitteh staring at books:
I petted him. Honestly I think he's not a sad kitteh but he seems so in this instance. He's fat so I assume he eats well and the bookstore is a pretty chill place to lie around.
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Re: Calvin and Hobbes, Farside, and the sad book store kitteh. [Re: Amoeboid] 1
#16442938 - 06/26/12 09:27 PM (10 years, 11 months ago) |
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I'd venture a guess that his sadness resides deep in his heart due to his lack of thumbs.
He looks like he wants to read those sooooo bad.
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lar20
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Re: Calvin and Hobbes, Farside, and the sad book store kitteh. [Re: Adden]
#16442943 - 06/26/12 09:28 PM (10 years, 11 months ago) |
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i got a calvin and hobbes book a while back and it was fucking awesome. wish i still had it because it was hilarious lol
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 withoutawire
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Re: Calvin and Hobbes, Farside, and the sad book store kitteh. [Re: lar20]
#16442948 - 06/26/12 09:29 PM (10 years, 11 months ago) |
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I got 1/2 my arm covered in calvin and hobbs tattoo.
Such nostalgia.
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LySergic D
Drink all day and rock all night
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Re: Calvin and Hobbes, Farside, and the sad book store kitteh. [Re: withoutawire]
#16442966 - 06/26/12 09:33 PM (10 years, 11 months ago) |
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I love me some Calvin and Hobbes. I grew up reading the comics. Ive got all the books.
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Amoeboid
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Re: Calvin and Hobbes, Farside, and the sad book store kitteh. [Re: withoutawire]
#16442976 - 06/26/12 09:34 PM (10 years, 11 months ago) |
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Re: Calvin and Hobbes, Farside, and the sad book store kitteh. [Re: Amoeboid]
#16443013 - 06/26/12 09:42 PM (10 years, 11 months ago) |
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I actually just spent the last hour looking for giant prints of Calvin and Hobbes to hang in my room. I am thinking of this one, although I wish it was a little bigger.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Calvin-and-Hobbes-Bad-Job-Strip-Poster-Print-30-/230508197506#vi-content
Edit: I am also looking for this, but it is apparently rare.
http://peterdeseve.blogspot.com/2010/11/easy-being-green-its-not.html
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LySergic D
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Re: Calvin and Hobbes, Farside, and the sad book store kitteh. [Re: qbe]
#16443021 - 06/26/12 09:43 PM (10 years, 11 months ago) |
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Broken heart don't feel so bad
You ain't got half of what you thought you had
Rock you baby to and fro
Not too fast and not too slow
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Re: Calvin and Hobbes, Farside, and the sad book store kitteh. [Re: LySergic D]
#16443108 - 06/26/12 10:04 PM (10 years, 11 months ago) |
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I have the "Essential" and "Authoritative" Calvin and Hobbes in my bathroom for random reading. The only thing I enjor more on the shitter than that and the "Far Side" is the "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader". Those three are a must.
Sadly in all my years I have lost every single Far Side book I ever had. I need to get on the ball and start collecting those. Gary Larson was a master mind of brilliant one panel comedy.
Damn, looking back I had every one up to "Wiener Dog Art", all gone into the ether. But It looks like there is 5 books worth I have not ever seen, that is a huge bonus.
There was some animated stuff done from him, Tales from the Far Side (1994) I know I saw it in the past many years ago, can't really recall it now. Probably not he best in that medium but something to look for if you are a die hard fan.
http://www.demonoid.me/files/details/2958502/11595814/
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/4439152/Gary_Larson_s_Tales_from_the_Far_Side_1_amp_2_DVD_ISO_Repak
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Re: Calvin and Hobbes, Farside, and the sad book store kitteh. [Re: Amoeboid]
#16443132 - 06/26/12 10:11 PM (10 years, 11 months ago) |
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Cow Tools.
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Epiglottis
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Re: Calvin and Hobbes, Farside, and the sad book store kitteh. [Re: Adden]
#16443230 - 06/26/12 10:37 PM (10 years, 11 months ago) |
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Edited by Epiglottis (07/05/12 12:20 PM)
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Enjoywho
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Re: Calvin and Hobbes, Farside, and the sad book store kitteh. [Re: Epiglottis]
#16443237 - 06/26/12 10:40 PM (10 years, 11 months ago) |
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I grew up on Calvin and Hobbes, and have owned pretty much all the books at one point or another. Absoloutely can't get enough. Bill Waterson 
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Re: Calvin and Hobbes, Farside, and the sad book store kitteh. [Re: withoutawire]
#16443253 - 06/26/12 10:44 PM (10 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
withoutawire said:
I got 1/2 my arm covered in calvin and hobbs tattoo.
Such nostalgia.
pictures?
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"I don't give nothin' to nobody, I just pay the cost to do business." - Riley "Young Reezy"-Boondocks
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
"In the days of kings and queens I was a jester."
"And then the great lord created bears... too many bears... shoulda really dialed back on the bears." Squidbillies
"Can you start speaking words instead of your damn filthy lies!"- Louise "Bobs Burgers"
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Re: Calvin and Hobbes, Farside, and the sad book store kitteh. [Re: Amoeboid]
#16443300 - 06/26/12 10:54 PM (10 years, 11 months ago) |
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Calvin and Hobbes is probably my favorite comic strip ever. Even though it ended almost 17 years ago, I'm still shocked when I hear that people haven't read it, or are just discovering it for the first time. Educate yourself fools! And seriously buy some of the books or check them out from the library, there's some great art in there and it's so much better than reading online.
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Re: Calvin and Hobbes, Farside, and the sad book store kitteh. [Re: Ythan]
#16443365 - 06/26/12 11:12 PM (10 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
This painting — by “Calvin and Hobbes” creator Bill Watterson — is the first new art from him that his syndicate has seen in the 16 subsequent years, say executives with Universal Uclick and its parent company, Andrews McMeel. The artwork is of the character Petey Otterloop from Richard Thompson’s comic strip “Cul de Sac.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/this-just-in-first-new-art-from-calvin-and-hobbes-creator-in-16-years-syndicate-says/2011/04/22/AF7l7NQE_blog.html
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Re: Calvin and Hobbes, Farside, and the sad book store kitteh. [Re: Amoeboid]
#16443374 - 06/26/12 11:14 PM (10 years, 11 months ago) |
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I loved both comics, but C&H was my favorite.
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4runner
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Re: Calvin and Hobbes, Farside, and the sad book store kitteh. [Re: Le_Canard]
#16443435 - 06/26/12 11:31 PM (10 years, 11 months ago) |
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That makes me sad....
Far Side is and always will be superior to everything else.
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withoutawire
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Re: Calvin and Hobbes, Farside, and the sad book store kitteh. [Re: Enjoywho]
#16444563 - 06/27/12 10:03 AM (10 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
Enjoywho said:
Quote:
withoutawire said:
I got 1/2 my arm covered in calvin and hobbs tattoo.
Such nostalgia.
pictures?
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Re: Calvin and Hobbes, Farside, and the sad book store kitteh. [Re: withoutawire]
#16444629 - 06/27/12 10:24 AM (10 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
withoutawire said:
Quote:
Enjoywho said:
Quote:
withoutawire said:
I got 1/2 my arm covered in calvin and hobbs tattoo.
Such nostalgia.
pictures?
You are one ballsy motherfucker. I would never post my face or my tattoos on a website dedicated to manufacturing illegal drugs.
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Re: Calvin and Hobbes, Farside, and the sad book store kitteh. [Re: 36fuckin5]
#16444648 - 06/27/12 10:31 AM (10 years, 11 months ago) |
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I caught this tribute comic to C&H called Hobbes and Bacon.
It its 26 years in the future with Calvin and Susie married.
Looks like Bill Watterson drawings but it is not.
check it out!
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