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On New Year’s Eve of 1995, Bill Watterson published the 3,150th and last Calvin and Hobbes strip. Since then, we’ve seen a host of good-to-very-bad takes on the comic:cartoons, apps, bizarre live-action reboots—even a search engine.

 

Now there’s a documentary, Dear Mr. Watterson, which explores the impact the boy and his anthropomorphic tiger had on both readers and Watterson’s colleagues. The film began as a pet project for director Joel Allen Schroeder, who started interviewing fans of the strip in 2007; his Kickstarter project, created in 2009, then raised more than twice his initial $12,000 goal. The movie’s been picked up by a distributor, and the first trailer has just hit the Web:

 

http://www.slate.com...soon_video.html

 

 

 

 

Very sad day that was, but I always thought that he did the right thing, artistically speaking. Thanks for the heads up, I'll definitely want to see the documentary.

 

Btw, Spaceman Spiff was my favourite of all the Calvin & Hobbs cartoons. Even though I haven't been a kid for many years I could easily associate with Calvin. Now I have two little Calvins of my own, and I can easily associate with his dad, right down to cycling in the most awful weather.

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Very sad day that was, but I always thought that he did the right thing, artistically speaking. Thanks for the heads up, I'll definitely want to see the documentary.

 

Btw, Spaceman Spiff was my favourite of all the Calvin & Hobbs cartoons. Even though I haven't been a kid for many years I could easily associate with Calvin. Now I have two little Calvins of my own, and I can easily associate with his dad, right down to cycling in the most awful weather.

 

Always been one of my fave cartoon strips. I have a lot of compilations in my comic collection. I love the fantasy world they occupy. Also cool that dad's a cyclist!

 

 

One of my faves:

 

Edited July 18, 2013 by Tumbleweed

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