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#119633 by danceswithchickens
Sat Apr 22, 2006 11:31 am
A while back I was reading one of my Calvin and Hobbes collections (the books with a year's worth of comic strips in them), and I came across some very familiar lines. In one series of strips, Calvin is criticizing the music industry, and several of his ideas and even direct quotes appear in the song "The Girl next Door". I can't find the book now, but I remember a few of the similarities:

Calvin: "...pretend they're still rebellious with their video posturing."
Devin: "...pretend they're still rebellious with their video pose."

Calvin: "The revolution is a capitalist industry!"
Devin: "The 'revolution' is a capitalist industry."

Calvin also mentions something about tee shirts affiliating you with an 'elite clique', and there may have been one other reference that Devin also used, but for the life of me I can't remember.

Coincidence? Or is Devin a Calvin and Hobbes fan too?

#119653 by Tracy
Sat Apr 22, 2006 6:49 pm
He may have read a Calvin book before. Or ten...

#120288 by the-fluke
Sun Apr 30, 2006 4:19 am
haha i found all the books bar two in a charity shope for 20p each. bargain! pity it doesnt get drawn anymore :cry:

#120366 by gozu
Sun Apr 30, 2006 2:11 pm
i'm a huge c&h fan my sister got me one of bill watersons art for my 19th birthday last year

#120373 by danceswithchickens
Sun Apr 30, 2006 3:12 pm
Bill Watterson is a genius, as far as I'm concerned.

#120375 by Mordecai
Sun Apr 30, 2006 3:25 pm
Wow. :shock:... Nice find dude.

I think he's a genius too. Very reclusive aswell apprently... like he never does interviews or book signings/appearances or anything. Rumour has it that he never even goes outside! omg!

Haha, nah I dunno... :roll:

#120402 by danceswithchickens
Mon May 01, 2006 4:38 am
At one point they were trying to license Calvin and Hobbes for cartoons and toys and crap. I'm glad that never happened...

#120598 by Nayara
Wed May 03, 2006 5:28 am
I have a calvin & hobbes tatoo xDDD

#120644 by Persuader
Thu May 04, 2006 12:57 am
Image

#120685 by Persuader
Fri May 05, 2006 12:54 am
Nope, google find. :)

#120779 by Kivenkantaja
Fri May 05, 2006 12:10 pm
danceswithchickens wrote:Bill Watterson is a genius, as far as I'm concerned.
And he didn't make his comics money-making machines like what happened to Garfield. Watterson rules.

#121147 by danceswithchickens
Tue May 09, 2006 9:12 am
Kivenkantaja wrote:
danceswithchickens wrote:Bill Watterson is a genius, as far as I'm concerned.
And he didn't make his comics money-making machines like what happened to Garfield. Watterson rules.


Though the syndicate tried with all their might to get him to license his work for merchandising. Fortunately, he is a man of great integrity...

#127764 by Goat
Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:55 am
Canadian geniuses, what can one say.

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