Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 30, 2014

Does he get residuals?

What are the call letters for your TV show, Calvin? ;)

You don’t need to “think.” He’s made his view on the matter abundantly clear. No cartoon. No merchandising. The strip is the finished product and that’s all.

everybody’s a dreamer and everybody’s a star

He’s just like Gilbert Harding! (“I have indigestion, but I don’t suffer from it”) (sorry to those who don’t remember the 1950’s in the UK)

Don’t look now, but I think Calvin has been framed.I’m surprised that Calvin even knew what the wordendorse-ment.

Click here: B.C. (July 17, 2008)Click here: The Argyle Sweater (October 26, 2009)Click here: Dilbert (March 30, 2011)Click here: Peanuts (August 24, 2004)

Note that what Calvin is describing today is the opposite of Bill Watterson: Simply being seen on TV makes someone a cultural icon, worthy of endorsing commercial products. Bill, on the other hand, prefers not to be recognized by people, and he opposed creating commercial Calvin and Hobbes products, even though he could have benefited from them financially. Bill does not want everyone to know him when they see him, and he does not want everything that he does to somehow become newsworthy.

The Peanuts strip that I posted above has the wrong date on it — August 2004 was when it was rerun in the newspapers (after Charles Schulz died in 2000). The original date of this strip was August 25, 1970, back when groceries were less expensive, and when grocery clerks keyed in the prices on the register rather than electronically scanning the items. Today, because of computer technology, there are even fewer world-famous grocery clerks.

Chocolate coated Sugar Bombs!

@Grog: They were under-appreciated.

Calvin – the original reality tv star.

Weirdly prescient. He IS a cultural icon. Mazel tov, Bill.

Wow! He’s a celebrity. A legend in his own mind.

He did mention that, initially, he wasn’t opposed to a C&H cartoon. The main reason it never happened was because he would have to be the one to choose the voices, and he preferred to have the readers choose what they sound like.

Anyone born after 2010 won’t understand what Hobbes meant.XD

Calvin and his pet tiger Hobbes are playing television. Calvin says he is no famous. Hobbes thinks they should call Uncle Max.

Justin Bieber butt comes to mind here.

He speaketh for YouTube!

This was an unauthorized knock-off.

I wonder if Calvin will have his own advert?

xxx

Let’s see the commercials of Calvin.

Calvin’s on the right track. Too many people in the media think their opinion matters more than the rest of ours.