Calvin and Hobbes cartoon/computer generated movie

[Gavin]

Anyone heard anything about this?

It would rock if they did it.

[flipper]

I doubt Bill Waterson would be interested. The last couple of interviews I saw with him seemed to indicate that he was rather appalled by the spiralling popularity of Calvin and Hobbes and the subsequent media/merchandizing machine it was turning into.

I think he's done the same thing as Berkeley Breathed, only *more* reclusive if such a thing were possible.

I don't believe you could do a C&H movie without Bill W's blessing. It was a very individual cartoon. Still, who can prejudge the perfidy of a large media company who own the rights to something?

[Ryokan]

I wouldn't watch it. I like the voice I give Calvin.

[Solly]

It would be sacrilege. Bill was trying to resurrect the comic strip as an art form. To turn it into a film would render that pointless. Why do they have to turn everything into a film?

Would they use his strips? probably not, so we get a team of hack writers who turn it into South park without the swearing, or Charlie Brown without the toddler angst.

[Ryokan]

Not to mention the style and pacing would have to change. I don't think Calvin and Hobbes could exist AS Calvin and Hobbes as anything but a comic.

[Jin-Roh]

I really doubt that Bill W would allow that to happen. I don't know what to think of it myself either.

I'm surprised that the merchadising has gone on as long as it has. I thought that he would've gone nuts to see it by now.

[Patroclus]

Bill was trying to resurrect the comic strip as an art form.

I think you hit the main point right there. When I was younger, reading Calvin and Hobbes was just something fun to do. It is not until I became older and began studying art that I realized how brilliant Waterson's strips actually were. He, along with Gary Larson, truly did raise the bar for art in comics.

If you don't think humor is a legitimate form of artistic expression, try reading "Lysistrada," by Aristophenes, or "A Midsummer Night's Dream," by William Shakespeare. Waterson isn't Shakespeare, but his strips were works of genius.

[Jin-Roh]

yeah... There where TONS of strips I understood in a whole new light when I got older. When I was a kid he sent me to the dictionary often with all of Calvin's big words.

[Epoetker]

He, along with Gary Larson, truly did raise the bar for art in comics.

Remember the "Outland" comic where the lawyer goes to the perfect future and asked who was president?

"Gary Larson."

"AAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHH!"

"Hmph! What'd he expect? A lawyer?"

I SO needed that during the middle of the Clinton years...