The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: a Calvin and Hobbes Treasury by Bill
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Beginning with the day Hobbes sprang into Calvin's tuna fish trap, the first two Calvin and Hobbes collections, Calvin and Hobbes and Something Under The Bed Is Drooling, are brought together in this treasury. Including black-and-white dailies and color Sundays, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes also features an original full-color 16-page story. The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury Details Date : Published September 1988 by Andrews McMeel Publishing (first published 1988) ISBN : 9780836218053 Author : Bill Watterson Format : Paperback 256 pages Genre : Sequential Art, Comics, Humor, Graphic Novels, Fiction Download The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Tr ...pdf Read Online The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes ...pdf Download and Read Free Online The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury Bill Watterson PDF File: The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A 2 Calvin and Hobbes Treasury... Read and Download Ebook The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury... From Reader Review The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury for online ebook Iluzija O. Istini says DA, ponovo i ponovo i ponovo i ponovo- ♥ Pooja says My Parents swore upon their honor That I was safe, and not a goner. I guess tomorrow they'll see their sad mistakes. Here lies Calvin, devoured in his bed by a monster.... If only we had treated him better.... Oh Boy, Calvin and Hobbes is way to funny and should read by every humans-person on the planet. I am laughing my heart out on this comedy book. Calvin has it all. The imagination and work the author has dedicated to this series makes me jump with excitement and everything feels so adventurous once you read Calvin and Hobbes. The Essential Calvin and Hobbes comic strips are indeed Essential. :) Olivier Delaye says Hilarious, cute, perfect, and perfect again! Stephen says 4.5 stars. Second only to Gary Larson's "The Far Side" as my favorite cartoon series of all time. Always clever, always funny and always leaves you in a better mood. I must have for any library. Arya says Somewhere own the street in a small house in a quite town lives every babysitter's worst nightmare. The dynamic yet meddlesome duo of the mischievous Calvin & the manipulative Hobbes. Calvin & Hobbes is a great, classic cartoon about a little boy, named Calvin, who goes on many wacky expeditions with his pet tiger, Hobbes. Everybody else sees Hobbes as a mere stuffed animal, but not Calvin. He sees Hobbes as a real tiger & a snarky one at that. Watch Calvin & his feline friend as they attempt dangerous stunts, face the monsters under his bed, go camping, & try to pass Miss. Wormwood's class. Can Calvin learn to stay out of trouble? Can he learn to get along with Susie Derkins? Can his parents handle any more disappointment in PDF File: The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A 3 Calvin and Hobbes Treasury... Read and Download Ebook The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury... their life? Seriously, they need help! This lovable yet extreme cartoon really highlights the joys & pleasures of the average suburban life as well as brings out the inner child of its readers. Any true fan of Garfield, the Cat would surely admire this treasure of time. I know that I do! I'd rate this book 5 stars. It definitely deserves a high spot on the shelf. Linnea says I have a confession to make. I started reading Calving and Hobbes comics because I saw my third grade crush reading them. I guess I should thank him, because once I started reading these comics, I didn't want to stop. My grandparents and parents bought me collection upon collection of Calvin and Hobbes comics. And while I didn't read the "normal" books that kids my age read, I think I had a great childhood reading these comics. They're funny, they're silly, and believe it or not, they can have some important life lessons in them. Of course, as a kid, I didn't realize what those were. I can easily say that Calvin and Hobbes comics were what I always went back to reading when I was between books throughout elementary and middle school. Maybe even some high school. Basically, I love these comics, and they truly are great. Eric says I was always a Garfield kid growing up. The first things I actually remember reading as a child were Garfield books that you could get through the Scholastic newsletter -- named with obesity puns like Garfield Goes to Waist. I skipped right ahead to Zits as a teenager, and Dilbert as an adult office drone (as well as XKCD, Questionable Content, The Oatmeal, The Order of the Stick, and a number of other great web comics). How exactly I missed Calvin and Hobbes I'm honestly not sure, but after seeing the excellent comics documentary Stripped, I remedied that more or less immediately. And having done so, I understand all the praise for this comic. It isn't just about Watterson's beautiful and inimitable style of artwork, or the quality of the jokes -- not that either of those hurt the comic strip -- it is because Watterson understands the human condition, and was able to translate that into a few successive square boxes featuring drawings of a little boy and his stuffed tiger. Unlike Dennis the Menace, a comic strip which bears a superficial likeness in that both boys are unapologetic troublemakers, this comic shows how imaginative and inquisitive the otherwise unruly boy can be, while simultaneously showing how trying being a parent can be, without villainizing or marginalizing any characters. A great example of this is Calvin's babysitter. While she is a villain to Calvin, she garners audience sympathy when she laments what she has to put up with to help pay for college. The singular brilliance of Calvin and Hobbes is it's earnest and honest portrayal of family life, followed closely by the awesome animations of Calvin's wild imagination, featuring Spaceman Spiff, among others. Also, the comic strips themes are timeless -- you would have no idea it was published 25 years ago. For evidence of Watterson's genius, just see the nine strips that make up The Racoon Story (scroll to the bottom of that page), which are not funny at all, but simply poignant. PDF File: The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A 4 Calvin and Hobbes Treasury... Read and Download Ebook The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury... PUMPKINHEAD says Went back to book from my childhood recently and found it as enjoyable as I did those many years ago (perhaps even more so). There was poignancy in Calvin & Hobbes I never even noticed when I was a kid. Lovely, funny, fantastic stuff. Brad says August 7, 2011 Dear Bill, Your decade long run of Calvin and Hobbes was the greatest run of any comic strip in the history of comic strips, and you made the right choice putting an end to it when you did. I can't believe it's been gone for 16 years now. Your precocious Calvin was what every kid with an overactive imagination is in their own heads, but you also gave us the view of what the rest of the world sees in these kids and does to try and beat the imagination out of them. There's implied sadness in the explicit joy you gave us, and it makes Calvin and Hobbes a true masterpiece. I was fourteen when you started your opus, and I was close enough to my own hyper-imaginative childhood to connect at a visceral level. My youthful imaginary friends were still fresh in my mind, and my current imaginary friends were just taking hold, and your strip gave me something to relate to, someone to cheer for, a place where it was okay to turn dreary realties of the world into exciting fantasies and be proud of that ability all at the same time. It was also a fabulous way to relax my brain (though not too much) amidst all the literature I was devouring at a frightening rate. But I have a request. Now that I am forty, and I have a precocious little Calvin of my own making explosive sounds with his mouth as he blows up his LEGO creations (as I write this, in fact), and my little Calvin’s twin sister, who happens to be a lot like Susie, I would love it if you came out of retirement and gave us just one year of Calvin and Hobbes and Son (or Daughter).