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Calvin and Hobbes

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Comic strip whose creator Bill Watterson refused to license for commercial merchandise, influencing a reader's views on artistic integrity and commercialization.

Mentions (9)
"Calvin and Hobbes perfected the comic strip genre, and for 10 years consistently delivered child-like humor together with biting social commentary on the corporate world, capitalism and politics. Simultaneously it's also a celebration of the youthful spirit and idealism of the United States - the Am"
calvin and hobbes is a classic work of american literature · u/probablymilhouse · ↑402 · 2023-03-30
"Saw a post on this sub about Calvin and Hobbes pretty recently, always adored it as a kid and in retrospect it played such a pivotal role in how I saw the world around me as I grew up."
What works of art arguably changed your life? · u/MulhollandPeaks · ↑234 · 2023-04-12
"I feel like the Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin starts to take his medication and Hobbes fades away except the Hobbes is everybody on the internet"
I haven't been posting much anymore and here's why · u/bitchyfuxkjngbltch34 · ↑79 · 2021-06-21
"For my birthday one year I got a 10th(I think) anniversary Calvin and hobbes book that had early comic strips and had little blurbs of commentary throughout from the strip creator, Bill Watterson. I remember being in elementary school reading how much vitriol Bill had for the people trying to licens"
Bill watterson · u/Winter-Log-2037 · ↑52 · 2021-08-28
"i was very into *calvin and hobbes* at the time, and i kept it unclear whether he really did say the horrible things on his mind, and people ignored him because his appearance was so disarming; or whether we were reading his thoughts, and the citizens of wilmington only heard the typical sounds a ba"
mother called · u/Puzzled-Soup-7519 · ↑48 · 2022-10-10
"I feel like the Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin starts to take his medication and Hobbes fades away except the Hobbes is everybody on the internet"
I haven't been posting much anymore and here's why · u/bitchyfuxkjngbltch34 · ↑79 · 2021-06-21
"For my birthday one year I got a 10th(I think) anniversary Calvin and hobbes book that had early comic strips and had little blurbs of commentary throughout from the strip creator, Bill Watterson."
Bill watterson · u/Winter-Log-2037 · ↑52 · 2021-08-28
"i was very into *calvin and hobbes* at the time, and i kept it unclear whether he really did say the horrible things on his mind"
mother called · u/Puzzled-Soup-7519 · ↑48 · 2022-10-10
"Specifically remember a character saying 'bet'. Woke up and felt absolutely nothing, completely unmoved."
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