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Calvin & Hobbes

Calvin & Hobbes

Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson

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Posted bySpacemanSpiffin/calvinhobbes-Sep 06, 2016 at 8:00 AM

A String Of Upsetting Calvin & Hobbes Strips Told A Bold Story About Bullying

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A String Of Upsetting Calvin & Hobbes Strips Told A Bold Story About Bullying

There was no happy ending, no neat resolution, when Moe bullied Calvin out of his toy truck. But during that two week stretch of Calvin & Hobbes strips from 1989, cartoonist Bill Watterson made a dark but salient point about how unfair life can be.

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  • Susie_DerkinsSep 05, 2016 at 8:59 AM

    I think it's wonderfully wise how he didn't provide a neat resolution.

    In so many was, this strip is just like life.

    Do you remember the strip about the raccoon that died?

    • SpacemanSpiff
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      Sep 05, 2016 at 9:06 AM

      OF COURSE I REMEMBER IT, SUSIE!

      It keeps me up at night...

      • Susie_DerkinsSep 05, 2016 at 9:10 AM

        I read it over and over as a child, and sometimes, when bad things happen, I think about the line - "In a sad, awful, terrible way, I'm still glad I met him." .... And then I often say to myself, just like Calvin, stupid world !

        It captures everything so perfectly.

      • Susie_DerkinsSep 06, 2016 at 1:58 PM

        POKE.

        Calvin, when are you going to let me play in your tree fort with you and Hobbes?!?!?!

    • MergenOndarSep 06, 2016 at 9:11 AM

      I remember it! It's one of my favorite parts of the whole comic because it's so poignant. I'm crying because out there he's gone, but he's not gone inside me - easily one of the most heartbreaking lines about death in anything that I've read, really. It's so simple, yet it really just... sums up everything about grief and loss in such a clear way. This comic, seriously.

      • Susie_DerkinsSep 06, 2016 at 9:58 AM

        That line is so deeply poignant. It brings tears to my eyes just remembering!

Calvin & Hobbes

Calvin & Hobbes

Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson

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