The Internet Finally Proves its Worth
When I was 19 and working for the Asbury Park Press, I became fast friends with Steve Breen, a gentleman and a scholar if ever I met one. Steve was fresh off becoming the youngest person to ever win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, while I was fresh off embarrassing myself by dropping out of Harvard. We made a good pair. The first thing I ever asked him was whether or not I could attach his Pulitzer Prize to a gold chain and wear it around my neck for a fake rap video. The second thing I ever asked him, however, took even less thought to answer. "Steve, what's your favorite comic of all-time?" "Calvin and Hobbes," he blurted out.
And he was right.
I recently discovered a complete online compendium of every Calvin and Hobbes strip ever drawn. Each individual panel is glorious. I would link to it, dear readers, but it has already been shut down. I suppose I would be vigilent with copyrights too, if my greatest character's bastardized legacy was to piss on things.
During my search I came across this comic - obviously doctored - which purports to be an alternate final strip. It's the saddest thing I have ever seen. Honestly, don't look. TURN AWAY!
You looked didn't you? Sniff. Is it just me, or is it getting "dusty" in here again?
After reading that strip I was desperate for another Calvin fix. Thank god I anticipated that the site would get shut down and ripped all the comics off the page and downloaded them to my hard drive.
I mean, ummmmm.....errrr.......What's that behind you!
(A door slams. Footsteps down a staircase. Screech of tires. A plane takes off.)
Of course, in the immortal words of Calvin himself: "Why should I have to WORK for everything?! It's like saying I don't deserve it!"
We don't deserve something as good as Calvin and Hobbes, dear readers. But we can, and should, appreciate it.
When I was 19 and working for the Asbury Park Press, I became fast friends with Steve Breen, a gentleman and a scholar if ever I met one. Steve was fresh off becoming the youngest person to ever win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, while I was fresh off embarrassing myself by dropping out of Harvard. We made a good pair. The first thing I ever asked him was whether or not I could attach his Pulitzer Prize to a gold chain and wear it around my neck for a fake rap video. The second thing I ever asked him, however, took even less thought to answer. "Steve, what's your favorite comic of all-time?" "Calvin and Hobbes," he blurted out.
And he was right.
I recently discovered a complete online compendium of every Calvin and Hobbes strip ever drawn. Each individual panel is glorious. I would link to it, dear readers, but it has already been shut down. I suppose I would be vigilent with copyrights too, if my greatest character's bastardized legacy was to piss on things.
During my search I came across this comic - obviously doctored - which purports to be an alternate final strip. It's the saddest thing I have ever seen. Honestly, don't look. TURN AWAY!
You looked didn't you? Sniff. Is it just me, or is it getting "dusty" in here again?
After reading that strip I was desperate for another Calvin fix. Thank god I anticipated that the site would get shut down and ripped all the comics off the page and downloaded them to my hard drive.
I mean, ummmmm.....errrr.......What's that behind you!
(A door slams. Footsteps down a staircase. Screech of tires. A plane takes off.)
Of course, in the immortal words of Calvin himself: "Why should I have to WORK for everything?! It's like saying I don't deserve it!"
We don't deserve something as good as Calvin and Hobbes, dear readers. But we can, and should, appreciate it.
1 Comments:
On Sunday I was reading the comics [now strangely separated into sections I and II], thinking that it hasn't been the same since Calvin and Hobbes has been gone. BTW, that "final" strip really did almost make me cry. Ok, it did make me cry. Thanks a lot.
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