The Complete Calvin and Hobbes (Calvin & Hobbes) by Bill Watterson Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Complete Calvin and Hobbes (Calvin & Hobbes)
Book Review: PERFECT!
Summary: 5 Stars
Reports of the strips being smaller are not an issue for me. If I hadn't read it in previous reviews I wouldn't have noticed. I have also not had any trouble with the binding or anything. Pages are of high quality and the intro from Waterson adds to the enjoyment.
I have coveted this item for over a year and finally decided to go for it. Wish I hadn't waited. Really, really like this product.
Book Review: Masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
This has to be the finest collection of cartoon strips ever commited to print. The limited run of ten years allow all strips ever published to be collected in three large volumes giving you every Calivin and Hobbes story there is in one box set.
Buy this and you will laugh and cry in equal measures. And by the time you reach the end of the last volume you will be ready to start all over again.
Perfect in every way
Book Review: Absolutely fantastic!
Summary: 5 Stars
This item contains every single Calvin and Hobbes cartoon ever published.
The three volumes also contain some additional material written by Bill Watterson.
It's interesting to see how the style developed, especially in the first book where Watterson describes the origins of Calvin and Hobbes. The early cartoon strips are of a visibly different standard to those later on.
I love Calvin and Hobbes and this has kept me quiet for hours.
Book Review: When cartoons grew up
Summary: 5 Stars
I just got back from my post office here in Oslo Norway. The little woman who went back to get this package for me looked less than thrilled. This is HEAVY!
Well, anyhow, I just had my first look at this and it's stunning. Calvin and Hobbes deserve no less.
1987. It's been that many years since I was in Denmark on holiday and bought my first volume of Calvin and Hobbes? (Steen & Stoffer in Danish, Tommy & Tigern in Norwegian). Wow, how time flies.
Calvin and Hobbes have been a great influence on me. I have tried and failed over the years to be a cartoonist or graphic artist myself, but my failure aside, this series really pushed me in conveying ideas with simple yet effective drawings. And that's the crux of this whole success. Amazing yet simple art, effective storytelling, heart, cheekyness, flights of fantasy and even a bit of insanity.
Calvin and Hobbes is all about lost youth to me, and I always pictured the last Calvin and Hobbes showing Calvin walking past Hobbes, with Hobbes no longer a living tiger, but being just a stuffed toy. Calvin realising that this time of his life is over, bursting into tears, and running to his mother for comfort.
Instead he left us, looking for adventure in the woods behind his house with his best friend, destined to live forever in an endless summer.
When a cartoon gets to you on so many levels, does it seize being a cartoon? I'm not sure you can even use the word about something as monumental as this, but don't let that put you off. This is great literature, and you should own it simply to show people that you are a kid at heart, and that you know a great body of work when you see it.
Book Review: Well worth it's weight!
Summary: 5 Stars
The other reviews here pretty much say it all... if you are a fan of Calvin and Hobbes, you are going to love this! And, if you are already a fan, you will undoubtedly own a few worn-out copies of the various collections. I already have most, if not all of the books;
what makes this special and worth having (..in addition!) is the beautiful presentation, in chronological order, of all the strips, with the large cover art added throughout.
It is big, it is heavy, but bearing in mind that it will probably stay put and be well looked after, I don't see any problem with this! It's obviously not intended to be lugged about as your sole copy, and it's nice to have a nice hardback volume to sit and read. If you want portable, take one of your paperbacks. If you want your favourite (and the best, most imaginative, philosophical, entertaining cartoon strip ever) in 3 well-made volumes, then you should really add this to your bookshelf. I just did, having read the previous reviews, and I love it already!
(I've read Calvin and Hobbes through many times, and they just don't date either.. Calvin's comments about the advertising industry, and his Dad's views about t.v, the media, traffic etc are as funny and relevant today as when they were written.)
Not much more to say... if you love Calvin and Hobbes, this collection really is well worth it's weight.