My family is full of Calvin and Hobbes fans. We have several of the C&H comic strip books, and can read them again and again and still laugh every time.
Over the years I've found that many other homeschoolers like Calvin and Hobbes, but I never thought about why that might be. Then I read this essay. As he puts it:
As this strip clearly shows, Calvin has nothing but utter contempt for his school, as did I for mine. Calvin’s fantasies are clearly more violent than mine. (All I ever wanted to do was stay home sick.) ....There is not a single Calvin & Hobbes comic strip that has anything positive to say about this institution. Just use the search engine in the link at the beginning of this article and type in "school." You will be taken from one strip to another where Calvin is bored, anxious, unhappy, disgusted, hopeless, daydreaming, or scared. The only school-related strips where Calvin is in a better mood have to do with recess or grossing out Susie...
Here's a few parts of the Calvin and Hobbes comic book.Like a few pics. You may have to pause a lot and some letters are written a little too small.
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I do not own Calvin and Hobbes.
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This is a job for... Superslackers! Comixtalk, AZ - 13 hours ago cartoons and Keith Giffen's old Ambush Bug comic books for DC. Metal Men and Metamorpho comics. Douglas Adams maybe? Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes.
Taking a reading on literacy The Times of Trenton - NJ.com, NJ - Nov 17, 2008 when all my older son would come up with at the library was "Calvin and Hobbes." We usually compromised by getting another, more challenging book.
There's no comic relief when Johnson straps on the pads Times Daily (registration), AL - Oct 29, 2008 By Christopher Walsh, TUSCALOOSA - Watching Alabama senior safety Rashad Johnson in action this season can be a lot like enjoying a Calvin and Hobbes comic
I Kill Giants #5 Review IGN, CA - Nov 13, 2008 I consider this book to be the modern successor to Calvin and Hobbes, and I'm hard-pressed to think of a better complement for any book.
Berkeley Breathed's Opus bows out San Francisco Chronicle, USA - Oct 26, 2008 Breathed said his readership was 60 million to 70 million people in 1985, when Peanuts had a readership of 200 million to 300 million and Calvin and Hobbes,
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