May 26, 2006

Ten years of Calvin and Hobbes strips are available to view. There is also the Searchable database of C&H strips.

The poignant episode of the Baby Raccoon in March of 1987, and the final strip at the end of December, 1995 are the ones I looked for first. Thank you, Bill Watterson, for your genius.

posted by EarWax 18 years ago
  • this is awesome, thank you!
  • sah-wheeeeeet!
  • ya know, I love calvin and hobbs as much as the next monkey, but I've a sense that this is not an authorized publication (please correct me if I'm wrong). If so, I hate to see something as quality as this pirated...
  • This site popped up a year or two ago before at a different address, and disappeared quickly.
  • According to the Copyright act of 1790, most of these strips are in the public domain, although it is possible that Watterson renewed the 14 year term for one additional period.
  • Wish it had a Paypal tip jar, with proceeds going to Bill. I wonder how much it would bring in.. $5/week? $500/week? It's just that I have the utmost love for the content creators, but generally couldn't care less about the publishers -- especially in the music industry. In this day and age, the content distribution is trivial, and they no longer deserve to profit from their assumed monopoly on the distribution system. I'd love to download a (pirate) album, but tip the artist $5 for their effort.
  • Yeah, the lawyers for Bill Watterson (or whoever controls the C&H rights) are swift and merciless. And very much not down with this sort of thing. I sense a great ceasing and desisting is upon us. But, in the meantime - Calvin! Hobbes!! Yay!
  • a while back a friend collected a bunch of the truly wonderful 'snowman death art' series and sent them to me...a precious gift indeed!
  • Wow, cool. I have all the books and I still just wasted way too much time reading these. The little raccoon story didn't make me any less said about Desmond Dekker dying, but man, Bill Watterson sure can write and draw.
  • Someone posted the saddest one of all a while back, maybe here... it is one where I think Calvin is talking to Hobbes, and by the end of the strip, Hobbes has turned back into a stuffed animal.
  • Wow, I just read that comment, lame description. I can't remember buch about the strip-- I think I blocked it out.
  • The complete C&H is the best thing I own.
  • Brilliant. Thanks for the link. I sure miss them. Calvin reminded me of what it was like to be a kid, with no limitations and endless creativity.
  • It's kinda sad...there's not a single one where Calvin is pissing on a Chevy logo
  • According to the Copyright act of 1790, most of these strips are in the public domain, although it is possible that Watterson renewed the 14 year term for one additional period. sorry, no - see this gross-looking but accurate page on copyright extension and public domain.
  • Someone posted the saddest one of all a while back, maybe here... it is one where I think Calvin is talking to Hobbes, and by the end of the strip, Hobbes has turned back into a stuffed animal. It is here. You can click on the strip, if you wish, and remove your sadness
  • That one always breaks my heart, and makes me look at rambunctious kids in a different light.
  • I will not click it, dng-I-am.
  • You guys realize that strip is doctored, right? Still sad, though.
  • My favorite C&H strips were the ones with Rosalyn, the babysitter, and the parents shelling out the big bucks at the end of the night.
  • Sad and lame. That fabrication totally missed the gestalt of C & H.
  • i disagree tech... i think the creator of that particular fabrication understood C&H perfectly.
  • My favorites were the enthralling daydreams about Spaceman Spiff and of dinosaurs. (Sadly, the site search engine doesn't give me a full url, do you'll need to ask for "spiff" or "dinosaur" to sort those out.) The interleaving of fantasy and reality was way cool. Well, those were my favorites, along with every thing else.
  • There's a database here, which used to show full strips -- as of a year or two ago, the images were removed. Can still search blurbs/descriptions, figure out what date a strip was published, what books it's available in... etc. Yep, this 'un's days are numbered... but it's amazingly nifty to be able to search these.
  • I think its seconds were numbered, because I can't seem to load the page. Is it down already?
  • I think we've killed it, and I haven't even read all of them yet!
  • Damnit! And I didn't get none! Not none! Maybe I can scrounge some off of the floor here...
  • i disagree tech... i think the creator of that particular fabrication understood C&H perfectly. Then I don't get it. Nice post though, thanks!
  • My favorites are definitely the sled/wagon rides.
  • Nice!
  • Rowr! Love'ya, Pete!