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   chireef said, 11 months ago

   please remember that these were originally ran back in the eighty’s and nineties
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   Goomba345 said, 11 months ago

   so but isn’t C&H pop-art though? it gives us more of the children comic strip characters which we know we like from Peanuts… plus it borrows it’s premise from Winnie the Pooh… not that I don’t love this strip but Watterson can be a little hypocritical on this particular theme of his in my opinion. thoughts anyone?
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   Goomba345 said, 11 months ago

   discussion: is true originality impossible? maybe a work of art HAS to form itself from previous ideas because everyone’s taste in a particular type of art comes from what we’ve all seen together. One of Watterson’s earlier ideas was a strip called Critters that was all about bugs. Aside from the fact that bigs are not the most relatable characters, there has never been a successful comic strip about bugs. Jim Davis tried it too before Garfield and it didn’t work for him either. But Krazy Kat had existed before and so maybe that’s why Garfield works for us. Personally I think the best characters are kids. They are hands down the most relatable charaters in comic strips. Cul de Sac is a comic strip about kids (like Peanuts and C&H) and it also borrows it’s premise from “ALICE” in Wonderland…. not that I dislike these strips but I find the topic interesting. And since Watterson frequently brings this up…
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   Goomba345 said, 11 months ago

   also Calvin is like Dennis the Menace… just saying
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   simpsonfan2 said, 11 months ago

   Jackson Pollock is popular. Maybe because some people understand his work. Or maybe because those people are idiots who just don’t want to be thought of as idiots so they go along with the ‘Pollock is so talented’ crowd.

   Here in Los Angeles they have a big boulder installed as ‘art’. Okay, moving that thing with a special truck and such was impressive, but it is still a ROCK!
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   margueritem said, 11 months ago

   Art is in the eye of the beholder.
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   capndunzzl said, 11 months ago

   …this sounds political.
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   artybee said, 11 months ago

   You can walk under that dang rock, but I won’t.
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   opuscroakus70 said, 11 months ago

   @Goomba345

   Not even!! Dennis the Menace is just a doofus who wrecks things. Calvin and Hobbes used words I actually had to look up. Just because something is about kids or animals, doesn’t mean it’s like every other thing that’s about kids and animals. And Watterson’s amazing drawings of Calvin’s fantasies are unlike anything you see in the comics.
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    Goomba345 said, 11 months ago

    @opuscroakus70

    Yes good point! And yes the fantasies are amazing… as good or more good even than Little Nemo’s fantasies in slumberland.
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    orinoco womble said, 11 months ago

    If a child were to produce some of what passes for “art” here in Spain, they would be packed off post-haste to a psychologist.
    In fact, at an elegant “art show” in Madrid someone hung a bunch of scribbles made by a preschool group in crayon, pencil and fingerpaint mixed and then filmed the reactions of the viewers. You would not believe the “interpretations” that were flying around!! The most popular one seemed to be that the scribbles and blotches represented the "artist"’s struggle to come to terms with his or her sexuality.
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    Sandy Shore said, 11 months ago

    Ah yes. Grease 2. A classic.
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    JohnnyDiego said, 11 months ago

    @margueritem

    Art is in the eye of the beholder.

    .
    It may be a cliche but it can’t really be put any other way.

    I have a huge problem with people who say, “This is stupid crap!” and no problem at all with people who say, “In my opinion this is stupid crap.”
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    codeplay said, 11 months ago

    @opuscroakus70

    ….Calvin and Hobbes used words I actually had to look up …
    same here. C & H is waaay more than about a troublesome kid
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    Fiendly Neighbourhood Terrorist said, 11 months ago

    Dennis the Menace (American version) is a poor cousin of Calvin. There is, by the way, a British Dennis the Menace who’s nothing like the American one.
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