Have there been, or will there ever be a News Comic Better then Calvin and Hobbes?

Answer 1

There will never be anything like Calvin and Hobbes.

I do like Zits, though. It's almost like Calvin as a teen, only not as smart.

Answer 2

Calvin and Hobbes was classically simple. There were great ideas that came from such a short panel.

These days, I'm personally a huge fan of "For Better or For Worse," because it's a strip the echoes real life (including characters that age and pass away). The stories are woven together beautifully, and the characters are have real feelings, attitudes and personalities.

However, I love C&H and wish it was available in classic-strip form (like Peanuts is today). I miss seeing Calvin sledding down the hill, building evil snowmen, or going into the jungle and running from dinosaurs.

Calvin and Hobbes set a bar for excellence... and very few strips have come close to it.

Answer 3

Calvin and Hobbes is definitely one of the funniest comis out there. I still read the classics on Gocomics.com. The strip is one of the few that will have me snickering at my desk when I'm supposed to look like I'm engaged in serious work. I'm also a big fan of the Boondocks and Garfield for a good laugh, For Better or For Worse for the sentimental laugh, and Non-Sequitor for the satirical. And I still also love a good Peanuts strip (I'll still watch all the Charlie Brown specials...).

Answer 4

Never!! Calvin and Hobbes was a classic, and shall forever live on that way. There will never be another comic that can surpass Calvin and Hobbes' greatness. :D

Answer 5

the only undertaking i did not like approximately Calvin and Hobbes grow to be that Calvin grow to be so lonely and mandatory help. I constantly needed i ought to make certain him get some counseling, improve a actual friendship with Suzie, discover ways to stand as much as the bully at college, discover ways to pay interest better, incredibly discover ways to apply his superb mind's eye and write memories or draw paintings, and grow to be much less based on his imaginary buddy for companionship so he would not improve as much as be a maladjusted lonely person. this is the priority with cartoons: Calvin is a new child constantly, yet we're not.

Answer 6

YES - The Far Side is better than Calvin and Hobbes, but that is just my opinion and you know everyone has one. You can take my answer or leave it.

Answer 7

I loved Calvin and Hobbes. Bill Waterson retired tooooooo early. I have the entire 10 year run a PDF formats, including the books...sad, I know...

Answer 8

No other comic similar to C&H has come along, in terms of the characters and their interactions.

Part of the reason is Bill Watterson's intensely personal style. While he showed the world what it was like for a young boy to hae a wonderful imagination, he also showed the horror of growing up with a dissociative personality disorder (what used to be called, multiple personality disorder).

Remember the time that Calvin brought Hobbes to school with him, to 'protect' him from Moe, the bully...? It breaks my heart to see a child like that, abused and picked on, retreat into madness. What is even sadder is the fact that it 'worked'. Moe was suspicious that someone was watching and that Calvin was trying to humiliate him and give him the repuation of playing with stuffed toys, as Calvin himself did.

In this way, Calvin's illness was affirmed as if it had some objective reality or inherent value. My heart goes out to Bill Watterson, who has finally managed to break free from the demons of his past by showing the world what it was like. He showed rare courage to do this, and gave us a rare insight into the world of children who are emotionally crushed and developmentally stunted.

He showed us the depth of his imagination and the aching loneliness in the soul of a litle boy. And he did it in a way that we could relate to, in a manner that enabled us to give him the affirmation he desired without fully realizing how badly he needed it, without shaming him by pointing out that he was so desperately seeking it.

Yes, Bill Watterson gave us a lot. But we also gave him a lot. Calvin grew up. Hobbes has been exorcised, or reintegrated into Calvin's (Watterson's) personality. We can even hope that he eventually forgave Moe and married Suzie.

Let's not ask Bill to relive those days any longer, or go on drawing cartoons merely for our enjoyment. He's gone on to other art projects which he wants to do. Let's not complain. Let's be glad for him that he's recovering.

God Bless you, Bill Watterson. From all those whose lives you have touched: Thank You.

Answer 9

No, C & H was the quintessential young boy comic strip. It captured all of our childhoods so well. The imagination of a young boy. I miss it terribly and own all of the volumes of collections. My favorites have to be his snowmen.

Answer 10

Garfield