The Complete Calvin and Hobbes [Box Set] Hardcover – Illustrated, September 6, 2005 by Bill Watterson

Description

Author: Bill Watterson

Brand: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Edition: Illustrated

Features:

• Andrews McMeel Publishing

Format: Illustrated

Package Dimensions: 142x343x10020

Number Of Pages: 1440

Release Date: 06-09-2005

Details: Product Description
Join Calvin and Hobbes on all their adventures in this three-volume hardcover collection of every comic strip from the comic strip’s eleven year history (1985 to1996).

Calvin and Hobbes is unquestionably one of the most popular comic strips of all time. The imaginative world of a boy and his real-only-to-him tiger was first syndicated in 1985 and appeared in more than 2,400 newspapers when Bill Watterson retired on January 1, 1996. The entire body of
Calvin and Hobbes cartoons published in a truly noteworthy tribute to this singular cartoon in
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes. Composed of three hardcover, four-color volumes in a sturdy slipcase, this
New York Times best-selling edition includes all
Calvin and Hobbes cartoons that ever appeared in syndication. This is the treasure that all
Calvin and Hobbes fans seek.

Amazon.com Review
An Excerpt from Bill Watterson’s Introduction:
“Ive loved comic strips as long as I can remember. As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I dont even like riding in elevators. I kept my options open until seventh grade, but when I stopped understanding math and science, my choice was made. There is great personal satisfaction in attending to detail and quality, and I remain very proud of the standards the strip met day after day. I also liked the responsibility of knowing that, succeed or fail, it was all my own doing. This approach kept the strip very honest and personal–everything having to do with Calvin and Hobbes expressed my own ideas, my own values, my own way. I wrote every word, drew every line, and painted every color. Its a rare gift to find such fulfilling work and I tried to show my appreciation by giving the strip everything I had to offer.”
Exclusive Images from the New Collection

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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. [Signature]Reviewed by
Art SpiegelmanBy the 1980s the once glorious newspaper comics section had become a wasteland, ravaged by shrinking space, editorial timidity and other ills. The real excitement in my medium had moved to the fertile margins of the alternative press. Bill Watterson, as uninterested in underground comix as I was in the mass media’s bland concoctions, marched directly into the wasteland and made the comatose syndicated strip form kick up its heels and dance.From 1985 until Watterson abandoned it at the height of its popularity 10 years later, Calvin and Hobbes echoed the classic strips the artist most admired. Stirring the richly conceived characters and efficient drawing of Peanuts with the visual virtuosity and linguistic playfulness of Pogo and Krazy Kat, he applied his intelligence and supple cartoon skills to come up with a creation beloved by the millions who still mourn its passing.Now, a decade after his demise, six-year-old Calvin has a fitting monument—a lavishly produced three-volume boxed collection of all the strips, which weighs as much as a tombstone. Following in the wake of Gary Larson’s
The Complete Far Side, and with a 250,000-copy “limited edition” first printing, the publisher realistically predicts that this book will be “the heaviest and most expensive book ever to hit the
New York Times best seller list.” While not as exquisitely wrought as
Walt and Skeezix, the recently launched reprinting of Frank King’s epic run of Gasoline Alley, or as intimate and dignified as Fantagraphics’ ongoing republication of all 50 years of Peanuts, this luxurious set is dressed for success and deserves an honored spot on the happily expanding shelves of strip reprints.
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes offers two intertwined narratives. One details the friendship between Calvin—the egotistical, feverishly imaginative, wised-up young tyke

UPC: 050837231467