ygolonac ([info]ygolonac) wrote in [info]calvinandhobbes,
2005-02-27 11:39:00
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Complete C&H scanned and online

Check it out before it's gone.

Calvin & Hobbes from Nov 85 till Dec 95

Someone has already gone to the trouble of grabbing and aggregating all the scanned strips into a conveniently browseable PDF which you can download with BitTorrent. A torrent link for that pdf.

And finally, at some point somebody made this very sad C&H.


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[info]joeybug

February 27 2005, 19:45:03 UTC 7 years ago

*actually cries*

*pets Hobbes*

[info]joeybug

February 27 2005, 19:51:10 UTC 7 years ago

*gets caught up reading C&H when she should be working*

Must. Work. Must. Work.

[info]twilightgardens

February 27 2005, 19:55:31 UTC 7 years ago

Wow, I think that's the most depressing thing I've ever seen.


:(

[info]mattato

February 27 2005, 20:14:45 UTC 7 years ago

is your avatar from a james jean piece?

[info]twilightgardens

7 years ago

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[info]noggie

February 27 2005, 20:13:29 UTC 7 years ago

Is it all right if I x-post this in some ADD communities?

[info]ygolonac

February 27 2005, 21:03:23 UTC 7 years ago

of course

[info]emily_d_88

February 27 2005, 20:21:29 UTC 7 years ago

Ive seen this before... most depressing thing ever... i think the last panel actually kills a part of me inside.

[info]echoboom

February 27 2005, 20:22:59 UTC 7 years ago

thanks for the torrent link...

[info]vahnderwoman

February 27 2005, 20:24:49 UTC 7 years ago

that's stupid. i don't like that.

[info]sheda

February 27 2005, 20:50:00 UTC 7 years ago

I second it.

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[info]darknightrain

February 27 2005, 20:55:40 UTC 7 years ago

Maybe I'm overreacting a bit, but I think that thing is like an insult to Watterson... *sigh*

[info]mattato

February 27 2005, 21:09:33 UTC 7 years ago

i think he'd approve greatly. the strip above is a depiction of a societal acceptance of the forced death of childhood in children. watterson with his background in political science would probably welcome something with a social message to it, instead of the sugar coated mindless strips that are currently out there. he once tried his had at editorial illustrations, once upon a time.

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[info]spaniello007

February 27 2005, 21:00:27 UTC 7 years ago

it's sad to think of all the little calvins running around america that are labeled "hyperactive" and lose their imagination and spirit with the help of unneeded medication:(
this is just so sad

[info]bookishchick

February 27 2005, 21:01:53 UTC 7 years ago

maybe i'm setting myself up to be stoned, but am i the only one who thinks the modified strip is clever?

it's sad, of course, and it cancels out everything i love about calvin and hobbes. the vibrancy and imagination and all.

but a deep dark imp in me giggles a bit, and smiles a wry smile whenever i see that strip floating about on the internet (which is often). clearly a fan made it, because it's too clever, and too in tune with the nature of the comic to have been done by one who doesn't like the strip or doesn't read it frequently.

of course, when read in the correct light it's depressing - with hobbes popping back into a stuffed animal in the last panel and all. but in a way it's a pretty powerful piece of satire, no?


oh well.

you can all hate it as much as you like. just thought i'd put my two cents in.

[info]dunnwithyou

February 27 2005, 21:12:57 UTC 7 years ago

I agree, I've seen it before as well, and I don't think it takes anything away from C & H. If anything it just helps us appreciate it more. Its not harming Watterson in anyway or the Calvin and Hobbes universe. It's showing us how something as great as the young life of Calvin could be altered by the paranoia of our society today about children paying attention.

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[info]packinsmacky

February 27 2005, 22:29:48 UTC 7 years ago

some random comments/questions:

i like the modified strip, in a horribly sad sort of way. watterson could never have done something like that, but i think he would appreciate the message.
i might just be making this up, but wasn't there one strip that ran in newspapers but never in the books? is this one in the archive site?
oh, and one more comment: i've had better luck using a "web mirror" program like WinHTTrack (open source, available from download.com) than bittorrent -- it just goes faster for me. hope this helps people out.

[info]whisk3rs

February 27 2005, 22:52:39 UTC 7 years ago

I expected the comments here to be more inflammatory. Here, let me add some fuel: Is the "OH NOES this is degrading to C&H" crowd whining again?

/troll
//strip is awesome

[info]echoboom

February 28 2005, 00:39:05 UTC 7 years ago

there was huge reaction the first time i posted the comic here about a month or two ago..

[info]j_bass

7 years ago

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[info]santa_is_jewish

February 28 2005, 02:10:23 UTC 7 years ago

OH NO!

::dies::

[info]rayth023

February 28 2005, 04:09:12 UTC 7 years ago

that is the most horrible, heart-wrenching thing ive ever read

[info]delzie

February 28 2005, 05:25:58 UTC 7 years ago

this thing again?

[info]randomflag

February 28 2005, 06:13:06 UTC 7 years ago

depressing is an understatement
this makes me want to die

[info]barbara_purple

February 28 2005, 08:24:35 UTC 7 years ago

Whoever put that strip together needs a medal.
Having seen kids on pills to make them "normal" and having be lucky enough to have had a mother who fought against me being put on them, this is the best way I've ever seen of getting a message across.
Hyperactive kids need loving and patient parents not pills to kill the part of them that makes them come alive and lets them be an individual.

[info]jasperdelarge

February 28 2005, 10:43:01 UTC 7 years ago

almost painful. seems important though.

[info]philip8383

February 28 2005, 11:16:09 UTC 7 years ago

Saddest comic ever. Has good meaning though.

[info]disciplex

February 28 2005, 22:59:57 UTC 7 years ago

That is a very sad strip. It tells a true and heart-wrenching story, about the death of imagination and all the sadness it should evoke but rarely does.

I say this in a new paragraph because it is an unrelated thought and not to be confused as related to my last comment; I hope this comic doesn't foster the attitude that psychiatric drugs are "evil"/bad as a whole. I hope we all agree that, wherever we draw the line in the sand, there is certainly a line to be drawn and on one side are kids who need medication to live a healthy life. I make no comment on where that line is to be etched.

[info]whatuphomie

March 1 2005, 03:28:47 UTC 7 years ago

message heard...loud and clear.
though it drove me to ACTUAL tears...i'm glad to have seen it.

[info]jasonkt

March 1 2005, 07:28:37 UTC 7 years ago

what? i could read that archive only 10 hours ago, and now the page can't be displayed? i sure hope it comes back up, it was awesome...maybe i did something wrong? what do you need bittorrent for?

[info]ygolonac

March 2 2005, 04:23:19 UTC 7 years ago

I doubt it will be back. The guy who put it up probably got a cease and desist letter from whoever owns the right to C&H. You need bittorent to download the pdf file that has all those strips consolidated into it.

[info]jasonkt

7 years ago

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[info]ygolonac

March 9 2005, 03:20:42 UTC 7 years ago

Sorry for the delay

This was the torrent link that I used

http://www.torrentbox.com/download.php/12122/Calvin.and.Hobbes.1985-1995.pdf.torrent

[info]crazylikezaxon

March 10 2005, 07:03:23 UTC 7 years ago

that is horrible!

that almost made me cry!
*sniffle*

[info]yesthattom

March 27 2005, 17:21:45 UTC 7 years ago

I prefer this:
http://whatexit.org/tal/mywritings/calvin.html

[info]sindow

April 8 2005, 06:18:16 UTC 7 years ago

Why do you hate freedom and America?

[info]animalrlt

April 12 2005, 19:31:13 UTC 7 years ago

Calvin and Hobbs

At first reading, this strip makes you angry that modern medicine could stifle a young child's wonderful imagination. This was my first reaction, anyway. But, let me also say that my ten-year old son has been on Ritalin for about four years now and his imagination is still way out there.
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