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From: japg6581@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (John A. Petterchak)
Subject: Re: Calvin and Susie- whaddya think?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 00:40:30 GMT

cs132102@cs.brown.edu (Simon Park) writes:

>I love the interaction between Calvin and Susie Derkins. The ST (sexual
>tension) between the two rivals anything on tv or the movies. I think 
>Hobbes serves as the alter-ego for Calvin in that he displays how Calvin
>secretly feels for her (What a babe! Yow!). The two 'adult' versions
>that Watterson has drawn, when they're playing 'house` and `doctor' and he
>draws them as some serial comics are drawn, are some of the funniest I've
>ever seen. And, dare I say it, Susie is pretty cute in them.

>Simon Park

Yes!!

I agree,  these have to rate among my most favorite C&H strips!!  The one where
Susie brings home a "baby" (really Mr. Bun) is a classic!!!

John Petterchak
japg6581@cso.uiuc.edu
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From: flournoy@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Raymond Suke Flournoy)
Subject: Re: ``Reality'' of Hobbes (was: "Reality" of C&H)
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 02:43:06 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.192859.10970@doug.cae.wisc.edu> jverdega@cae.wisc.edu (Jeffrey Verdegan) writes:
>>2) In a single strip, Hobbes was boosting Calvin up into a tree. 
>>
>>Is there other evidence, one way or the other, that I'm overlooking?
>
>How about the way Hobbes always attacks Calvin when he comes home, and Calvin
>walks in the house all beat up?  

  Gee, didn't any of you play with stuffed animals when you were kids?
I had a pack of them, and I can easily imagine the 6-year-old me
tossing one up into a treehouse and imagining that he had climbed up
himself.  Or stepping on one to reach something, and imagining that he
had given me a boost up.  Or thinking that he had hidden from me, when
I just couldn't find him.  And especially, rolling around wrestling
with my stuffed animals, and sometimes even losing!  Didn't you
guys/gals play pretend when you were little?

  If you are going to prove that Hobbes is real, you are going to have
to do better than this for evidence.  I want physical
impossibilities!! 


--Raymond Flournoy        
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Computer Science Dept.            There's some part of me wants to see 
Stanford University, CA           Graceland"               -- P. Simon

  (As always, apply smilies where necessary.)
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From: tony@nexus.yorku.ca (Tony Wallis)
Subject: Let's analyse Calvin.
Organization: York University
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 17:52:15 GMT

Two days and 150+ postings ! (That must beat the previous record for a new
group - held by rec.pets.cats, I think.)  Also, it seems that we should
have created TWO new groups: rec.arts.comics.strips.calvin-and-hobbes
and rec.arts.comics.strips.misc

So what is it about this little six-year old that endears him to so many
of us ?  Does he appeal mainly to males, or does he have an equal number
of female fans ?  Is it the "inner little boy" (psychobabble) in all us
netnerds ?  If you are male and a Calvin empathiser, do you just happen
have a SO who is a little bit like Calvin's nemesis (Suzie Derkins ?)
Will Calvin discover computers when he grows up and become a technonerd
or cyberpunk.  Will he marry Suzy Derkins ?

Would you like to see more or less snot-and-barf humour ?

--
tony@nexus.yorku.ca = Tony Wallis, York University, Toronto, Canada

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From: mudcr@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (David C Roller)
Subject: Re: Calvin-Hobbes/Bloom County/Outland
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 22:23:25 GMT

In article <1992Apr13.180716.23858@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> flournoy@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Raymond Suke Flournoy) writes:
>  Anyway, the C&H cast that I can remember are:
>
>Calvin
>Hobbes
>Mom
>Dad
>Susie Derkins
>Mr. Bun
>Miss Wormwood
>principal (Mr. Spittle?)
>Moe
>Rosalyn
>pediatrician
>anyone else???
>
>
I guess we should mention the replicants of Calvin.
Both the good calvin.  and the normal calvins who are transmorgified to
worms.
Dave

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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Peanuts
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 20:37:17 GMT

In article <1992Apr9.024711.1@acfcluster.nyu.edu> axd7104@acfcluster.nyu.edu writes:
>In article <1992Apr08.224245.4794@onetouch.COM>, csmith@onetouch.COM (Craig Smith) writes:
>> Unfortunately, Schulz seems to have lost it.  He hasn't done anything
>> good since the early 70's.  I've caught him repeating strips a lot
>> lately.  It's a shame.
>> 
>> Sorry, people.  I loved the strip, but its empty now.
>
>Actually, to me it seems to have improved somewhat of late.  I do admit
>that it sucked for a looong time, but you should look at it again.

I agree with the original poster.  Sometimes the punchline isn't even
there.  The man can't even draw a straight line anymore.  It's very
sad to see him go to one-panel throwaways instead of the classic four
panel formulations.
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From: derek@netcom.com (Derek LeLash)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Calvin vs Jason (ho'od win? :-)
Date: 16 Apr 92 01:24:15 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <1kgaJB1w164w@netlink.cts.com> joshm@netlink.cts.com (Josh Mercer) writes:
> 
>While Calvin would no doubt have fun tormenting Paige (Paige could
>babysit instead of Rosalyn),
>
Now *this* is a golden crossover opportunity if I've ever seen one!!!
How about it, Bill and Bill?   :-)

Derek

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From: rowdy@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (robert.dieckmann)
Subject: Merchandising: What's unethical about it
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 17:40:12 GMT


Regarding the applauding of Watterson and his decision
not to merchandise Calvin & Hobbes stuff:

I don't see what is unethicl about it.  Sure it can go
too far (whatever that means to each individual).  I would
love to buy a C&H shirt.  Last week I bought a Warner Bros
T-shirt with, amongst others, Foghorn Leghorn.  My wife got
a Bullwinkle and Rocky J. Squirrel shirt.  We enjoy the shirts,
and I don't think it represents anything "unethical" or "selling out."

Where did I go wrong?


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From: ack@coos.dartmouth.edu (Andy J. Williams)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Mr. Boffo Books?
Keywords: Mr. Boffo Joe Martin Books
Date: 13 Apr 92 22:13:21 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

trump@elaine30.Stanford.EDU (Michael Jason Lewis) writes:


>Where did you find a T-shirt?  ANyone know of any in the South Bay, pref.
>Stanford area?

Whoops, my mistake. It was on a Tshirt that Mr. Boffo himself was wearing
at the top of one of the full page strips.

-A
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From: ddebry@itchy.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (David DeBry)
Subject: Re: Arnold fans unite!
Reply-To: David DeBry <ddebry@dsd.es.com>
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp.
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 01:15:33 GMT

In article <1992Apr13.195002.1160@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, tpjg9663@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Thomas P. Johnston) writes:
|> 
|> The author of the Arnold strip was Kevin Mc Cormick.  I don't remember
|> the name of the syndicate, but I think it was the same one that 
|> handles Fred Basset. 

	Well, if anyone does know the name of the syndicate, all you
have to do is write to the syndicate c/o your newspaper, and the
syndicate will (hopefully!) forward the message on to Mr. McCormick.

|> Have we given up on hunting him down and trying to weasel a collection
|> out of him?  Anyone?

	I haven't given up!  I have about 40 Arnold strips at home
safe in a drawer.  I'll look up the syndicate on there, and write to
the syndication office tonight!  (I'll even pose the name of the
syndicate tomorrow for all those who are interested!)

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From: jchokey@leland.Stanford.EDU (James Alexander Chokey)
Subject: Re: Chicago Tribune Comics Section
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 07:56:27 GMT

Guess I'll put in my two cents worth as well.

>>>>>>The Far Side                      B- B+ A+ A+ A  A  A-
>>>>>>Peanuts                           B  B  B  B  B  A- B-
>>>>>>Dick Tracy                        B- B- D  D  C  C  C-
>>>>>>Brenda Starr                      C  D  F  F  D  C- D
>>>>>>Walnut Cove                       B+ D  ?  ?  F  C- ?
>>>>>>Fox Trot                          A  A- A  ?  A  A+ A
>>>>>>Broom Hilda                       B- C  C  C+ D  D  C-
>>>>>>Barney Google and Snuffy Smith    F  D  F  D- F- F  C-
>>>>>>Sylvia                            C  B  D  ?  I  D+ A-
>>>>>>Geech                             C+ B  C  ?  C+ D- ?
>>>>>>Gasoline Alley                    D  D  F  F  D  D  F
>>>>>>Fred Basset                       C  B  C  D- F  C- ?
>>>>>>Amazing SpiderMan                 B+ C  B  C- C  A- C-
>>>>>>Mother Goose & Grimm              A  A  B  A- B  B+ B
>>>>>>Mister Boffo                      B  A- B  ?  B+ B- ?
>>>>>>Winnie Winkle                     C- D  ?  D  D  D- ?
>>>>>>The Buckets                       A- F  ?  ?  C  D  ?
>>>>>>Doonesbury                        B- A  A+ B  B+ C+ A-
>>>>>>Blondie                           D+ C  C  B- C  C  C+
>>>>>>Shoe                              B- A  C  B+ C+ B  B-
>>>>>>Calvin & Hobbes                   A+ A  A  A+ A+ A  A+
>>>>>>Pogo                              B- B+ C  ?  C- D+ B+
>>>>>>For Better Or Worse               B+ D- A  A- A  B  A-
>>>>>>The Phantom                       C+ D  C  ?  C- B- ?
>>>>>>Beetle Bailey                     C- C  C  B- C  B  C-
>>>>>>Hi and Lois                       C  D  C  D+ D  C  D
>>>>>>Cathy                             B- B  D  D  D  B- C-
>>>>>>Hagar The Horrible                C  C+ B  B- C  B- B+
>>>>>>The Lockhorns                     D+ F  D  ?  F  D  D
>>>>>>Gil Thorpe (in Sports section)    B- D  ?  ?  C- D  ?


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From: wasg@sicilia.cs.rice.edu (Eric Salituro)
Subject: Re: Robotman (was Calvin and Hobbes)
Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 22:57:46 GMT

fry@tara.harvard.edu (David Fry) writes:

>In article <1973@transfer.stratus.com> hship@sw.stratus.com (Howard Ship) writes:
>>Personally, I thin C&S is wonderful, but don't discount Robot Man and
>>Zippy.  

>Glad to see Robotman mentioned.  I think Robotman is my
>favorite, with Calvin and Hobbes a close second. Does anyone
>else read RM?  Do many papers carry it?  It was temporarily
>removed from the Boston Globe in favor of In Sequitur, but was
>brought back after complaints, so someone must like it.

It's one of my faves. I managed to secure all three of the
compilations. One of my all-time favorites is the one where Robotman
is studying for his flying saucer license, and Gary asks him what to
do if his going warp 5 and an asteroid is gaining on him at warp 7.

"I say, Cap'n me engines can't take much more of this, and accelerate
to warp 10" 
"Correct"

At least I think that's how it went. :-)
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From: djmurphy@wam.umd.edu (Dave Murphy)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Calvin & Hobbes complaint <gasp!>
Date: 13 Apr 92 16:19:18 GMT
Organization: Hobbes & Bill in '92

I'm really pleased with the new large format of the Sunday strip.
But, I miss the jokes/gags that used to run in the (now gone) throw
away panels. 

---dave

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From: tpjg9663@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Thomas P. Johnston)
Subject: Re: Jim's Journal
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 20:27:23 GMT

hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke) writes:

>In article <1992Apr9.145716.3456@amhux2.amherst.edu> twpierce@amhux1.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
>>Has anyone else seen a strip called "Jim's Journal?"  We get it at
>>Amherst, but it seems not to be distributed very widely.  This is kind
>>of an existentialist/minimalist strip with a small but pretty
>>dedicated following here and at UMass.  I was wondering if New England
>>has the only pocket of "Jim's Journal" fans in the country.

>Ugh, I hope so... 

>"Jim's Journal" fans should be locked up in little cages and have rotting
>meat pushed in between the bars once a week.

I disagree.  I agree with the current thoughts regarding a balanced diet,
and I feel that rotting samples of a well-balanced diet should be
pushed through the bars.  A lot of rotting grains and fruits and
vegetables, and less rotting meat than was previously thought
appropriate.

Tom
From: jverdega@cae.wisc.edu (Jeffrey Verdegan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Tumbleweeds?
Date: 9 Apr 92 14:39:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: doug.1992Apr9.093903.114
Distribution: na
Organization: College of Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison

In article <steph.702781316@pegasus.cs.uiuc.edu> steph@cs.uiuc.edu (Dale Stephenson) writes:
>In <1992Apr8.134605.6131@doug.cae.wisc.edu> jverdega@cae.wisc.edu (Jeffrey Verdegan) writes:
>
>>I've seen a couple of references to Tumbleweeds.  The title is familiar, but
>>I can't remember the premise.  Could somebody refresh my memory?
>
>[...]
>Other denizens of the town include a corrupt judge, an old maid whose goal
>is marrying Tumbleweeds, an undertaker, a gravedigger, a criminal, a totally
>

Is this the strip where the undertaker has the signs saying "Joe the 
undertaker.  You stab 'em we slab 'em," or some such similar thing?  Also if
memory serves (after you mentioning the Indians), does the artwork look similar
to B.C. (as in cavemen, not Bloom County)?


Jeff


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From: spain@alliant.alliant.com (Dave Spain)
Subject: Random Data
Organization: Alliant Computer Systems Corp.
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 04:15:11 GMT


This is a neat idea for a newsgroup...

Just thought I'd post some random data from the Jan. 27, 1992 issue of
US News and World Report you may find interesting.

The is under the Database column on page 14, parenthetical comments
by yours truly are in []:

[...]

Paper Tiger .  "Calvin and Hobbes" - the nation's fourth most widely
distributed comic strip - returns [returned] to the funny pages with
original material on February 2 [1992].  Creator Bill Watterson went
on sabbatical last May.  The recession is hurting the $100 million
syndication industry: 16 daily newspapers disappeared last year and
others slashed their feature budgets.

Most widely syndicated comic strips: "Peanuts" and "Garfield" (2,300
papers); "Blondie" (2,000).

Estimated 1991 income of "Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz: $25 million

Estimated percentage of syndicated cartoonists with no art training:
25; percentage who are women 5. [their organization of data not mine]

Chances that a new comic strip will be picked for syndication: 1 in
1000 [considerably better than your odds of winning any megabucks
state lotto!]

Longest running strip: "Katzenjammer Kids" created in 1897; dailies
running it in 1930: 800; today 50.

Major dailies with no comics:  The New York Times [All the news that's
fit to print, but humor that's drawn can't fit, won't print],
USA Today [no need for comics when you have THEIR front page],
The Wall Street Journal [why hire cartoonists or pay royalties to a
syndicate when you can have an Ivan Boesky on your staff?] and
The Christian Science Monitor [faith not humor is the route to healing].

Papers that refused to run the "Doonesbury" series suggesting Dan
Quayle had used drugs: 30  [Number of drug companies to withdraw
advertising from papers that refused to run their Dan Quayle
endorsement ads: 0]

Months in Gary "The Far Side" Larson's sabbatical: 14 [too long];
in Garry "Doonesbury" Trudeau's: 21 [not long enough ;-)].


End of quote.

Has/is Gary Larson resumed/going-to-resume the Far Side?  I thought
that he had called it quits on that one.  Or is he just recharrring
his brain cells?

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From: cs902060@ariel.yorku.ca (GEOFFREY E DIAS)
Subject: Re: Mother Goose and Grimm
Originator: cs902060@m06.ariel.yorku.ca
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Distribution: york
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 23:11:40 GMT



In article <204623@unix.cis.pitt.edu>, dtate@unix.cis.pitt.edu (David M Tate) writes:
>> Best MG&G:  "Alice in Wonder Bread"
>> 


	I really liked the "jello in the fishbowl" bit. The strip caught me totally off-guard.
From: coop1w13@bnr.ca (Mike Hammond)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Keywords: far side gary larson
Date: 10 Apr 92 14:59:22 GMT
Reply-To: coop1w13@bnr.ca
Organization: BNR Ottawa, Fibre Systems Development

I realize I've already answered this, but I have to list my other favorite:
 
A bunch of bears are attending a funeral, with the open casket on display.
The supposedly dead bear is sitting up in the coffin. He says, ``I was
HIBERNATING, for Pete's sake! Don't you guys ever take a pulse?''
 
Most recent addition: pictures of different locomotives on the side of
milk cartons, grocery bags, etc., each saying, ``Have you seen me?'' The
caption is, of course, ``Runaway trains''.
 
Gary Larson is a genius.

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|      Co-op Student      |   too wascally for Bugs Bunny,              |
|       BNR Ottawa        |   so wascally...it's almost funny!''        |
|    and University of    |                      ``I'm Too Wascally'',  |
|        Waterloo         |                       Right Said Fudd       |
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From: rwells@Vitalink.COM (Roy H. Wells)
Subject: Re: Bloom County
Reply-To: rwells@Vitalink.COM (Roy H. Wells)
Organization: Considerably lacking
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 21:32:11 GMT

In <7eI102lq0ftO01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> 
amm50@joyce.mfg.amdahl.com(Andrew Murphy, Amdahl Ireland Ltd.)
writes:

>Is anybody else a fan of Bloom County ? It doesn't appear in any
>newspapers here, so I've only got to know it through buying collections
>in book form. In the last book that I bought, which was about a year ago,
>Bloom County winds down at the end and all the characters go their own
>ways. Since then, no new books have appeared. Does this mean it's finished
>completely? If so what is Berkely Breathed at these days?

Bloom County ceased to exist some time ago (2 years?) and was 
replaced by Berke Breathed's Sunday strip called "Outland"

IMHO, "Bloom County" beat the heck out of "Outland"...

"Walk softly & own a cannon..."
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From: dye@i88.isc.com (Ken R. Dye )
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Keywords: far side gary larson
Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 21:36:23 GMT

In article <1992Apr08.185415.10877@i88.isc.com> dye@i88.isc.com (Ken R. Dye ) writes:
>In article <7467@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> warwick@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
>>What is your FAVOURITE Far Side cartoon?
>>
>>
>>	CAT FUD.
>>
>>	Oh please, oh please.
>
>	Nature's way of saying "hands off"
>	"By golly, he *does* have a license for that"
>	"what is this, come kind of cruel hoax?" (sharks)
>
OOPS forgot:

	"uh-oh" (center for viral pathology)
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From: steph@cs.uiuc.edu (Dale Stephenson)
Subject: Crock (was Re: C&H and college strips)
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 01:34:38 GMT

In <1992Apr9.181711.20487@acsu.buffalo.edu> v070r6vw@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (David C Valenzuela) writes:

[snip]

>	One last quick thing...
>	what is the strip that has "The Lost Patrol"? Is it Crock? or something
>	like that? Big arguement here. People say it is Wizard of Id, but I
>	know itis not...

It is Crock.  Bizarre strip, not near as good as the Wiz, but it has its
moments.
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From: manley@iies.ecn.purdue.edu (HELD HOSTAGE -- YEAR ONE)
Subject: Re: Fox Trot
Organization: Down In The Depths On the 90th Floor, Ltd.
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 07:25:46 GMT

In article <1992Apr14.210419.22074@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke) writes:
>Amend does pay a lot of attention to detail in 'throwaway lines'.  For 
>example, most equations that Jason uses are correct, Peter's physics book
>is Skoog/West/Holler (a very popular univ. text, identifiable by a green
>cover with a yellow wave)

Pardon my lapse into geekdom, but isn't this Halliday and Resnick?  The
last edition of that physics text was green with a yellow wave on it.  That's
what I thought of when I saw the strip.

Michael
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