AM I being overly sentimental? Or does this picture tug your heart too?

[HEyHEY]

It really means alot to me.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

1. That picture reminds me of my childhood ...

when I was'nt afraid to take risks lol . Thats a nice pic !

[barb162]

2. yes

because that pussycat reminds me of how mine follow me around and how loyal they are and how they just want to be around me (even risking falling in the water)

[HEyHEY]

3. For me it's a return to youth

This could almost be considered a masterpiece by Waterson and should be in a gallery somewhere.
It's all about friendship, childhood, dream, imagination.... all rolled into one. A time I can still remember well and miss with a powerful longing.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

6. That picture just increased my good mood :)

I saved it to my hard drive . Thanks a bunch for posting that pic . Sometimes I forget what its like to have frienship , to remember my childhood , to dream and to imagine ... wow .

[Mara Steele]

12. & It's something you never have to give up, if it means that

much to you. *Really.* I know, I'm dreamed the same dream and been lucky enough to have it come true.

Have you ever seen the film "The Station Agent"?
Here is a link to a review I posted, on another website.
http://www.cybermacro.com/Mamblog_Section/Default_Categ... /

<*on edit* link isn't working right. You'll have to go to the far right of the page and click on "I LOVE this movie: The Station Agent".>

The movie is about a group of three "grown-ups" who share a bond much like what you describe and yearn for. It inspired me, and in some sense, I think it changed my life for the better.

Have you read "The Little Prince"? An inspiring classic book also about the beauty of friendship, and what children have to teach adults.

Best wishes, and please, *never* abandon this BEAUTIFUL dream of yours.

[HEyHEY]

14. Thanks

I've been lucky though. They guys I used to walk through the woods and over logs with are all still very close friends of mine.

What I yearn for is simple things that can't be re-visited. Most of them feelings.
Like the feeling of sitting inside playing by the fire while a cold rain pours outside. The feeling of watching saturday morning cartoons. You understand, not the act itself. But the strange, cozy, "world is so big a new" feeling I used to get as a child on dark nights.
Or the comfort I used to feel when my mom came home, the door would be open just enough for a little cold breeze to hit me. That was when I knew mom was home.

You get the gist?

Can you remember anything like that?

[Mara Steele]

15. Yeah, totally get the gist!!

Us sentimental folks sure have it rough; too many things make us cry, or me, anyway!

But people fall in love with our wistful gazes & teary eyes, I think. ;)

For me, having a good friend brings back a lot of that stuff. Just recently met someone who makes me feel about 10 again, gives me that "the world is so big" feeling again, it's funny.

Certain people, just have that spirit, and when you meet them, they share it with you...

[HEyHEY]

17. The last time I had that feeling

I was 20, and moved to New Brunswick. Just before I left, I was looking out my window at Moncton, and suddenly that feeling overwhelemed me.

It came and went over the next two days or so.

I've not had it since, I bet if I leave the country though, I will.

[Mara Steele]

4. Me, too HH.

:hi:

Nothing wrong w/being sentimental, either!

LOVE C & H, they always crack me up...

[mfritz]

5. Yes, Watterson rembers

Bill Watterson is one cartoonist that remembers what it was like to be a kid. Calvin & Hobbes rule!

[joeybee12]

7. It makes me wish Calvin and Hobbes were back!

And the polar bear Mom and cubs makes me want to put Repukes on the endangered species list!

[flamingyouth]

8. My favorite Calvin & Hobbes strip is about Math Atheism

I think I have a copy of it somewhere; it's freaking hilarious. :D

[HEyHEY]

9. I liek these two

Obviously the neither are waterson's



http://www.duke.edu/~ek2/random%20humor/calvin's%20booth.JPG

[Dudley_DUright]

13. My favorite one was when Calvin was complaining that

scientists were not imaginative enough in naming scientific events. He wanted to rename the Big Bang the "Horrendous Space Kablewie". :-)

[LWolf]

10. No, you're not and yes, it does.

Calvin and Hobbes...my favorite comic strip of any era. I think it would still be my favorite, even if I weren't slightly biased.

I've always, since Calvin first appeared in 1985, believed that my youngest son was the boy he was modeled on. He was 6 years old in 1985. And he is still, to this day, a living, breathing, Calvin.

[brook]

11. Yes. Sweet w/o cloying.

I need to add that your bears make me feel good when I see them, too.

[ET Awful]

16. For some reason, as soon as I saw that pic, I thought of this one

[Heddi]

18. That's my tattoo!!!

well, not the whole picture...but the way Hobbes is---that's the tattoo on my left hip. The Way Calvin is....that's the tattoo on my right hip. The whole picture was too big to get tattooed on me, so I just got C&H in their respective poses. On my hip, they look like they're asking for hugs :)

[Rabrrrrrr]

19. It sure as hell tugs my heart

I remember rolling with laughter reading Calvin and Hobbes (I was in college) and also often being dreafully touched by their friendship and insights, and reliving my childhood which was filled with play and imagination and crazy stuff liek Calvin - wanting a flame thrower and a missile launcher, thinking gory was cool, being gross, all that great stuff.

I wish Bill had continued the strip, but on the other hand, I'm glad he ended it long before it went stale and shitty (cf. Beetle Bailey, Dogwood, Family Circus (well, that always sucked), Cathy (which wasn't great to begin with, but is intolerable now), Garfield)

[HEyHEY]

20. That was the thing

Waterson did good funny bits. But he also showed "mushy" stuff. Which means he didn't so much write a comic as he did a comment.

[Rabrrrrrr]

21. He was a true artist; not just a "comic strip guy"

Like Breathed and Gary Larson and Will Eisner.

Real artists, who just happen to work in the sequential art medium.

[nuxvomica]

22. I vote that this picture tugs at my heart

Calvin & Hobbes was probably the most sublimely drawn comic strip ever. It's one of those strips that you'd just stare at for a while after reading it cuz the composition was always just so perfect.

[FizzFuzz]

31. yes me too, I felt the same way. Such beautifully drawn work.

I sometimes would just sigh and feel like my eyeballs were feasting. What a sense of line, and composition, like you said.

Peanuts too, (before it went mass market AllSnoopyAlltheTime) used to give me a feeling that I can't describe. And his style was so minimalistic too--he captured so much with the simplest lines. Walking on sidewalks in autumn setting sun, smell of leaves. Hot summer day outdoors (now I stay indoors way too much :( ) Winter gray snowflurry. Nighttime areound Halloween. Schultz really captured something for me. And as a kid reading Peanuts, I always loved Lucy, the only female character anywhere who actually had a personality. She was my hero. :)

[Shananigans]

23. I have to admit, C&H always were my favorite comic...

And I totally know what you are talking about when you refer to that feeling. I keep thinking of how when I was little and it rained I used to sneak into my parents room and sleep at the foot of the bed... my mom would always pretend she didn't notice me there and let me stay. I always felt so safe and...well....young. (Until my dad discoverd me and kicked me onto the floor)

I really do miss Saturday morning cartoons, too! My brothers and I used to (willingly) wake up early just so we wouldn't miss the good ones. It was the only time we ever got along when younger. It's not so much the cartoons themselves that I miss, but the feeling of being so safe in the world...the feeling that Saturday morning cartoons were such a big deal.

*sigh* To be 5 again...

[BlueJazz]

24. I understand your feeling..

The picture is one of complete happiness and joy with all the standard bullshit that most people have to put up with completely absent.
I remember days in my youth that were just as joyous.... Ahhh...Yes!!

[tigereye]

25. we really like Cand H around here

the strip makes even more sense now that I have a kid.

And those feelings from the past do return... maybe not quite the way they were when you were young, but in other ways. :)

[AwakeAtLast]

26. (Sigh!)

I adored Calving & Hobbes. I had a professor in college who named his two dogs after them!

The most hilarious one I remember is when Calvin ended up trying to flush himself to make a human tornado (I think). I;m pretty sure I laughed until I cried.

(Wipes tear)

Ah, memories!

[Rhiannon12866]

27. I loved Calvin and Hobbes, too!

Thanks for posting this. It does tug at my heart!:loveya:

[AmyDeLune]

28. *snifff**sigh*

so sweet...! :loveya:

[Dem2theMax]

29. It makes me want them back SO much!

I think I cried when they 'left.'

On a happy note, Opus is back on Sunday's only, and not in all the papers yet. If anyone gets Opus and has a scanner (as the comic is not online as of yet) please put this Sunday's (8-29-04) Opus on here. It's so funny. Poor Opus and his closet and the things that lurk in there. :)

[MaryH]

30. I was just reading Calvin and Hobbs last nite

The great "Indispensible Calvin and Hobbs"

I love his drawing - all the little details in every cartoon.

[JVS]

32. Calvin sucks!

Shithead tiger should have eaten the bastard.