The Complete Calvin and Hobbes (Calvin & Hobbes) by Bill Watterson
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Book Summary Author: Bill Watterson Edition: Hardcover Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published) Format: Box set Published: 2005-10-04 ISBN: 0740748475 Number of pages: 1440 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing |
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Book Reviews of the The Complete Calvin and Hobbes (Calvin & Hobbes)
Customer Review: Utterly gorgeous edition, simply for collecting - but hugely enjoyable
Summary: 5 Stars
This is wonderful! - Calvin and Hobbes have been one of my favourite cartoon strips ever. It is one of those great strips that can be read on more than one level, which makes it appealing to more than one audience. It was also really well drawn. And in this edition they have collected them all up and presented them just beautifully.
Cynically I imagine that this has been done for the money, but then I think who really cares about the motivation if the outcome is so nice?
The everyday fantasy world which 6 year Calvin lives in, inhabited by his tiger friend Hobbes very much reflects the deeper issues of the world. The problems with society, life, growing up and just existing are all examined through Calvin's naive and slightly delinquent eyes.
Watterson illustrates so beautifully - it really takes me back to my own childhood- in how teh characters are drawn, the perspectives in the drawing and also in the point of view. You can also see the adult and the child in Hobbes.
But then why am I explaining the philosophy of C&H? People looking at this book will defintely be fans already so there is no need to sell the strip itself. So to the presentation and the binding...... this is an absolutely grogeous binding making it a beautifully and collectable, item for fans of the strip already. After all, no one is going to fork out this sort of money for anything less.
So my opinion of this....as I said binding is gorgeous, love the slip case, and it is going to be kept in a good dark well aired corner of my bookshelves to keep in in absolutely pristine condition. This has not been designed as something just to browse through, it is in three volumes which arecumbersome to handle. If you do look at them you really need to do it from a table. This has been designed, with its limited print, to be a collectable - not really as a collection as such for the enjoyment on bookshelves.
So, I think, if you are buying it, you really have to think if these strips are going to last the test of time if you are buying this for more than just love of the strip - I have a feeling it will. Some day someone is going to write a philosophical book similar to the Tao of Pooh or Gospels according to the Simpsons about Calvin and Hobbes. To explain it in more detail - not that fans really need that. But C&H are more than just funny faces on a page, their trils and tribulations (as they are) really do reflect our own, and universal western concepts of right and wrong.
I love this collection!