hobbes

There's also Hobbes and Bacon, a fan-drawn series that picks up with adult Calvin (now married to Susie) giving his old Hobbes toy to his daughter.

Like all great art, Calvin and Hobbes was different things to different people.

I always enjoyed Calvin and Hobbes and I certainly enjoyed this message by Bill Watterson.

I don't think a cartoon has challenged my thinking this much since an old Calvin and Hobbes snippet from my childhood.

For me, Calvin and Hobbes ran throughout most of my childhood and contributed as much to my growing up as anything else outside my own family.

That Calvin and Hobbes comic really hit me hard.

As a child, I would pour over Calvin and Hobbes for hours.

I think some of the reason Calvin and Hobbes still finds an audience today is because I chose not to run the wheels off it.

I found the anecdote placed next the calvin and hobbes incredibly moving and relevant to my own life experience, albeit with some details different for myself.

I love Calvin and Hobbes and always will.

This is tangential, but for those of you looking to fill the Calvin and Hobbes hole in your life, I highly recommend the illustrated weblog of French cartoonist Boulet.

On the positive side, I am a great fan of his Calvin and Hobbes work over many years, and would quickly state that it had a significant influence on my developing worldview.

I agree with you generally vis-a-vis power relations -- that's really a highly underappreciated element of economics, though Smith's own second discussion of wealth begins: "Wealth, as Mr Hobbes says, is power".

That Hobbes underpins pretty much any political discussion in the Anglophone world even if not explicitly acknowledged is just a bonus, and I use the terms in the sense of "is" not "ought".

If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, ten, or twenty years, the people now "grieving" for Calvin and Hobbes would be wishing me dead and cursing newspapers for running tedious, ancient strips like mine instead of acquiring fresher, livelier talent.

Nation states are a very recent development indeed - they've only really existed (as firm concepts) for about 400 years, and Hobbes essentially set out the system of the world we operate to today in Leviathan - prior to that, state power was vested in individuals and families, and was drawn from the divine (think "dieu et mon droit" or "l'etat, c'est moi").

The fact of the matter is that, for most people living at that time, life was nasty, brutish, and short (to borrow Hobbes' phrase).

My point is that he had a platform to do all sorts of other artistic endeavors...completely unrelated to Calvin and Hobbes.

Recommend reading Hobbes' Leviathan and Hayek's Road to Serfdom, if this topic interests you.