“Hobbes and Bacon” is a “Calvin and Hobbes” tribute that takes place 26 years later

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“Hobbes and Bacon” is a “Calvin and Hobbes” tribute that takes place 26 years later

“Hobbes and Bacon” is a “Calvin and Hobbes” tribute that takes place 26 years later. I had nothing to with creating these cartoons – I am merely posting them here so that you can see them. There are four – and only four – but that’s enough to get the message across. You can see larger versions of the images by clicking twice on each image:

Part 1: http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/archive/2011/05/10/hobbes-and-bacon/

Part 2: http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/archive/2011/05/12/hobbes-and-bacon-002/

Part 3: http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/archive/2011/10/11/hobbes-and-bacon-03-2/

Part 4: http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/archive/2011/10/13/hobbes-and-bacon-04-2/

[DManA]

Sweet. I miss Calvin and Hobbes.

Why Bacon?

[blueunicorn6]

I’ve really missed these guys.

[null and void]

Thank you!

[LukeL]

Calvin was named after John Calvin, Hobbes after Thomas Hobbes, so I am guessing Bacon is Francis Bacon.

[DManA]

That is really clever.

[Boogieman]

Nice, I like the ending reference to “Calvinball”, the greatest game ever invented.

[DogByte6RER]

[andyk]

What a great post. Thanks.

[DManA]

We came this close || to naming our second born Calvin. Went with Elliot (had a family antecedent). 18 years later I’m still second guessing myself.

[stevio]

Sooo. Did he marry Susie?

[ottbmare]

Sweet, and kind of sad.

I’m actually Calvin’s mother. He’s 18 now. Not much has changed since he was six, except that he’s now huge and has all these muscles everywhere, and his wild blond hair has been shaved high and tight. He still has a fabulous talent for getting in trouble and a crazy attitude. He just joined the US Marines so he can break things and blow stuff up without having me get mad at him.

[ExcursionGuy84]

I just Knowed in my deepest-subconsciousness that, One Day,

Susie & Calvin would tie the knot!

And Old Hobbes is eternal!

As Geoffrey Rush in 1998 les Miserables would say

[Lakeshark]

Susie Derkins gets married to Calvin and they have a little girl?

Now that's a comic strip that has potential........

[Volunteer]

Thank you for posting this! It made me smile!

[tanknetter]

[Wyatt's Torch]

Indeed. Greatest cartoon ever and my all time favorite.

[PLMerite]

“I miss Calvin and Hobbes.”

Yeah, me, too. I always laughed at that strip. One of my favorites is the frame where Calvin is running with a fire extinguisher saying, “Dad says there’s nothing like a roaring fire, but I don’t know!” or somesuch.

And the snowmen were inspirational.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

My favorite comic strip. I gave up the comic page when he stopped. I've got all three hardbound books.

[GeronL]

Cool.

Also ran across a nice kids book - Zita: The Space Girl

http://zitaspacegirl.com/

[Alex Murphy]

“Hobbes and Bacon” is a “Calvin and Hobbes” tribute that takes place 26 years later

And is completely awesome.

[GeronL]

This is for reelz??

cool

[norton]

Indeed. Greatest cartoon ever and my all time favorite.

Don't be exclusive:
Pogo Possum,
Tumbleweeds,
Li'l Abner,
Opus/Bloom County,
Sherman's Lagoon,
Howard the Duck,
(current) Day by Day...

Cartoons can come closer to reality than most of the news.

PS: I omitted Malard Filmore because it is overtly political,
And I omitted Junkwaffle and Cheech Wizard because they fall totally outside polite society, talented and funny, but weird.

[Mike Darancette]

I miss Calvin & Hobbs loved the snow men.

[Charles Henrickson]

This is a nice tribute. Thanks for posting it. Brings back some happy memories.

Calvin and Hobbes was my all-time favorite cartoon strip. Tied for first with the Far Side, which was a single-panel cartoon. Both unbelievably consistent with their quality over a long period of time.

[grundle]

Thanks for the link.

[grundle]

Thanks for posting that image!

[grundle]

Sooo. Did he marry Susie?

I'm pretty certain that that is Susie. But please remember that Calvin's parents' names were never mentioned in the original.

[JerseyDvl]

Bfl

[Lmo56]

I can’t find the pic - but I used to have “The beatings will continue until morale improves” showing “Evil Calvin” posted in my office ...

[Mama Shawna]

AWESOME!! Made my entire day.

[MattinNJ]

My eyes got misty reading your post. The passing of years is bittersweet, but you raised a good boy. Mine is 10 and I am trying to savor each moment with him. God bless

[Nailbiter]

ping

[MattinNJ]

Possibly the best post ever on FR. Thanks. A little smile before the storm.

[MiddleEarth]

Zita the Space Girl IS awesome and without bathroom type humor which I hate in modern children’s comics/movies etc. Plus the author/illustrator has 4 little girls himself and named the main character after one of them...good guy.

[ozaukeemom]

ping

[mylife]

Poor Susie Dirkins! LOL

[mylife]

Hence my alternate tagline. "Opinions $1, Halfbaked 50c."

[mylife]

[ottbmare]

Of course it was Susie. Don’t be blasphemous. Calvin would never marry anybody else.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Wow, thanks for these.A buddy of mine had these on his coffee table and I had never heard of them.Loved ‘em from the start.The same friend was killed by a wrong way driver while moving back to FLA from LA 10 years ago.I always think of him and Calvin and Hobbs together.Miss you, Mark.

[thulldud]

I omitted Malard Filmore because it is overtly political,

And "Day by Day" isn't.

Riiiiight....

[mylife]

Day by day sucks.

It’s so overtly PC.

[thulldud]

Sooo. Did he marry Susie?

Well, Mr. Bun was mentioned in the first strip, and he belonged to Susie.

[jeffc]

I read all the Calvin and Hobbes books to my son at bedtime.... many, many, many, many times over (and over and over)!! It got so he could recite each ending before I got there, and we make C&H jokes all the time.

Now, he's "too old" for "that kind of stuff". But I'll always have the memories.

[mylife]

DXD never made me belly laugh.
Not a single time.

[Conservative4Ever]

Thanks for sharing...loved Calvin and Hobbes.

[Cyman]

The mere mentioning of Calvin & Hobbes once made me laugh out loud during Easter Mass.

[Billthedrill]

Wow. I'm the other surviving Cheech Wizard fan. Vaughn Bode was brilliant but his was a very silly and self-destructive end.

Calvin and Hobbes, however, was in a class of its own. And this is a very sweet tribute. 26 years. I'm feeling kind of old.

[mylife]

BTW Patrick F Mcmanus Married Bun.