The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
by Bill Watterson
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Book Reviews of The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
Book Review: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
Summary: 5 Stars
Bill Watterson's first Calvin and Hobbes treasury "the Essential calvin and hobbes" includes cartoons from Calvin and Hobbes and Something Under the Bed is drooling. This treasury includes great poems written by Watterson at the beginning of the book. In this treasury you'll know how Calvin found Hobbes, when he first met Susie, etc. This is one of Watterson's best books! After "Homicidal psycho jungle cat" and "it's a magical World" I like this the most.
If you love sarcasm, humour, and great colourful drawings you'll love to have this treasury. Some of the reasons why I love this book are the sarcastic jokes, normal jokes, the characters' expressions, and fiction stories and poems like Spaceman Spiff stories. Nightmares like monsters under the bed at night also lead to excellent jokes.
You'll love Hobbes, Calvin, Calvin's parents, Rosalyn, Miss Wormwood, and Susie. I don't really like "Moe" but I like the thiongs Calvin does to avoid Moe.
Bill's works on Calvin and Hobbes is fun to look at and read. The hilarious pictures help add more humour to the stories.
This great treasury would be suitable for people of all ages. It might not be suitable for children under the age of "eight" cause they might not understand the humour!
Book Review: A great read!
Summary: 5 Stars
Bill Waterson is argudably one of the best comic writers out there. Even through his retirement, he has made great books of past comics featuring his Calvin and Hobbes characters. I laugh and laugh at these comics he creates and I sometimes wonder how he comes up with such brilliant ideas sometimes with the storylines of some of the strips.Calvin, one of his best known characters, is the trouble-making kid in the school. He is funny and imaginative and likes to make funa and games with his "real" pet friend Hobbes. Through the comics, you can see the relationship between a stuffed animal and a human.
In this comic though, Hobbes "comes to life" in Calvins eyes. The things that Calvin can sometimes get involved in is so hilarious and sometimes out of this world.
I guarantee that anyone that loves comics will fall in love with this one and should definitely buy this book to start their collection of classic comics.
All of Bill Waterson's comic books are very well done and very professional. His work is his life and it shows the time and consideration it took to make these characters come to life. Thank you Mr. Waterson for creating such a great comic and thatnk you people for reading my review!
Book Review: pure delight!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have owned this treasury of Calvin & Hobbes ever since its first printing in 1988; that makes it the book I've owned for the longest time. And even after 15 years, I still look in here and laugh my head off at crazy Calvin's antics. He brings a microwave on a Cub Scout expedition (this is the only book where we see him in the scouts). He smokes his first (and last) cigarette. He turns into a 300 foot giant and terrorizes the neighborhood. He takes part in an educational school play and can't remember his line. Best of all, we see the first few "Rosalyn" episodes. Nothing like seeing Calvin drive his babysitter up the wall. And of course, where would Calvin be without Hobbes, his one and only friend? Hobbes makes the strip twice as good as it is already. In short, Calvin & Hobbes may have passed on into cartoon Heaven (where they play saxophone in an all-girl jazz band, or something like that), but their spirit lives on in this and other books. Also, check out the awesome pictorial poem, "A Nauseous Nocturne". It is cartoon gold! Get this and all the other C&H books, NOW!Book Review: Great collection and a great bargain
Summary: 5 Stars
Calvin & Hobbes was so popular during its run that people never needed to explain what the strip was about to anyone; it's been a couple of years and with the exception of little kids, people seem to remember the strip for the most part. So, all I'll say about this collection is that it is the preferable purchase over the first two books, the self-titled "Calvin & Hobbes" and "Something Under The Bed Is Drooling." Why? "The Essential Calvin and Hobbes" actually collects every single strip from those two books (it's NOT a best of, as some people would say), and most importantly, the Sunday strips are in color. Hands down, Watterson painted the most beautiful looking Sunday strips since Walt Kelly, and it would be a shame if you only knew them through the black and white reproductions of the smaller collections. It's also cheaper to buy this book instead of the first two, as well. As a special bonus, Watterson included a nice, water-colored poem at the beginning, which isn't available anywhere else.Book Review: Calvin is a hero to all imaginative children, whether they grew up or not
Summary: 5 Stars
Calvin is a young boy that is a hero to all people who had wild and vivid imaginations as a child and suffered for it. I possessed a very vivid imagination as a child and that made my years in elementary school difficult. I was constantly daydreaming of doing things like flying, sailing on a boat and inventing wonderful devices. Unfortunately, I regularly did them in class.
My major problem was when we were reading a story in our reading groups. I read the story very fast and then was required to sit there quietly while the others finished. Naturally, that was a problem and I spent some time in punishment. Coincidentally, the principal at my elementary school closely resembles Calvin's teacher.
Calvin is an inspiration to all people who imagine in their youth and then try to maintain that quality into their adulthood. If they can, they become the authors, artists, poets and architects and otherwise free thinkers that our society so badly needs.