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Last week I watched a pretty good documentary on Netflix about Bill Watterson called "Dear Mr. Watterson". Warning, it could make you nostalgic for your childhood!
2
Those guest panels have been so phenomenally well drawn this week that it has to be something like this. Please please please let it be Watterson.
3
The 6 people (so far) that voted "who the hell cares" should be forced to move to Factoria.
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@3 - hahahaha, thank you.
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He's actually been sort of active lately. For example, he did this:

http://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/20…
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I suspect it's more likely that Stephan Pastis, who has a long history of admiring and imitating other cartoonists, is merely paying homage.
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Pastis was a friend of the sensitive and somewhat reclusive Charles Schulz, so I wouldn't be surprised.
9
Oh please bring Hobbes back.
10
As a "Calvin and Hobbes" fan, I'd just like to recommend the comic strip "Frazz" to people. Its visual style is very much in homage to Watterson's work, and it is in many ways a spiritual successor to it as well.
11
Good stuff, but Candorville was the best strip today when Clive told Lamont that to explain death to a child he'd need a "muppet and a shovel". Ha!
12
Pastis routinely draws in other comic strip artists' styles. What's different this time?

And thanks for reminding me how much I miss Calvin and Hobbes.
13
If that Martian robot attack isn't Watterson, he should sue for trademark infringement.

I know, I know, he never does that, even to assholes ripping off Calvin for truck-logo-pissing stickers.
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I'm with @10. People who've been reading Frazz have commented that it's like Calvin as a grown up. If Watterson is lurking anywhere in the comics page these days, that's where I'd put my money.
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Something about the pose of the rat in the second panel seems similar to something Watterson would draw, but I can't spot any other similarities. Maybe it's because it looks like it was inked digitally, and I'm used to seeing his beautiful watercolor instead, but I just can't buy that this is one of his. However, I would not be disappointed at all to be proven wrong.
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Did someone say Calvin and Hobbes was coming back? That would be fucking awesome!!!
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@RP—wondered when you'd show up. Play naked! (I've got the tee-shirt.)
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@13: Wait a second, you're telling us that Watterson didn't do those truck-logo-pissing stickers? Next you're going to tell us that he didn't have anything to do with the Grateful Dead dancing t-shirts either!
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Frazz is good but it doesn't have the Hobbesian bittersweet darkness.
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@3 You failed to link to the Factoria Song

I have an RSS feed that gives me a daily Calvin & Hobbes strip. They don't get old.
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Confirmed via Stephen Pastis's blog : http://stephanpastis.wordpress.com/2014/…
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I thought it was obvious from the handwriting alone.
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I miss Calvin and Hobbes. A couple of years ago, a particularly favorite student had never heard of Calvin and Hobbes so I gave him a collection when he graduated.
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@1

Watched that documentary last night and it brought back a lot of nostalgia that I'd forgotten about.

It was even better when I read the news this morning and saw that Bill W. did resurface for a guest cameo.

I'm rereading the old Calvin and Hobbes strips now, start to finish... and they're even better than I remember.

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