Why do people pretend Calvin and Hobbes is high art?

Summer and the fact they manage to piss you off.

I feel like some people are becoming such a mix of contrarian and vitriolic for the sake of attention that they're tearing down literally everything they can of the sake of it. The more traditionally beloved the better.

Ahem

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The hilarious part is that this person took Calvin at his word and is unable to grasp the use of verbal irony in a comic strip. Whether you're smart enough to understand it or not, Watterson objectively put more effort into his strip and pushed the medium further than any other comic strip creator in decades

Because it is. It's just Bill Waterson telling you how much smarter he is than everyone else.

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Your bad opinions will never make you special.

>tfw you will never oganize a game of Calvinball

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>everyone starts changing the rules on the fly
>it turns into an organized fight with tigers
I'd watch it

Guaranteed replies.

Where's the image that just says something like "Calvin makes witty adult-like criticism" and the final panel is "Calvin says something child-like to Hobbes"

>You will never fuck Calvins mom

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I would rather fuck the baby sitter.

Calvin and Hobbes is essential pseudcore. It is Les Rallizes Dénudés of comics.

didnt bill watterson himself talk about how its dumb to say some art is good art/high art while other art is bad/low and that its all just art without the intrinsic value or lack thereof that people love to think exists

>about how its dumb

its-not-its.info/

What a stupid comparison

is this a fucking bot or something
people know the difference they just dont care to use punctuation

No you

Because it's an oasis of shear creativity and style that debuted in a period where newspaper comics were just entering the beginning stages of commercialization and apathy.

It's a comic strip, nobody's calling it high art, faggot

I don't know if he said it explicitly or not but he seems to poke fun at the concept here

Compared to most comic strips? Yeah it seriously is lol. Open up the newspapers and look at the other "funnies" if you think that shit is art OR funny you're a fucking boomer. Webcomics are about 10 times worse, but are for millenials and zoomers instead of boomers.

>millenials

mil·len·nials

TFW I re-read some of the weird shit I wrote for language arts class assignments.

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Go back to your whiskey bottle, English teacher

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Trolls toiling for (You)'s cause being a retard always gets some

Bretty good/10

>organize
>Calvinball
You fail at understanding, user.

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I was hoping to find something under /u/

yeah im pretty sure he had a blurb about it too in the 10th anniversary book, i only vaguely remember it though

Alright, fine
>tfw you will never disorganise a game of Calvinball

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Someone please post the one about how Calvin played pretend with some girl and her toy bunny.

Anyone who feels as though Calvin and Hobbes is Bill Watterson wanking how smart he is probably isn't as smart as he is

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It's really good. I can't speak to "high art", but art is subjective.

It's literally the reason the phrase "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" exists.

>SUPERHERO COMIC BAD!
This is true though. Capeshit is and always has been the greatest blight in the medium.

It's just a grammar-nazi autist who spends all of his free time here.

LOOK MA! I POSTED IT AGAIN!

Being contrarian is the new hotness on this website due to the influx of Latins.
It also requires limited English so they can get easy (You)'s without stressing their brain.

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Might as well ask why anyone pretends any comic is high art.

>pushed the medium further than any other comic strip creator in decades
Next time, just make your point without pretending to know more than you do. Newspaper comic strips had only been around for 6 decades when C&H came along, and Watterson has been outspoken about how he learned from the way greater innovations of Walt Kelly, George Herriman and others.

>implying watterson didn't have respect for all kinds of artists, both realistic and symbolic
his point was that all art deserves to be appreciated user, he disdained superhero comics mostly because he didn't like graphic violence

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Or they've read the collections where Watterson rants like a curmudgeon.

Honestly it's a blessing for everyone that Watterson chose to do a gag-a-day comic since it forced him to make something fun. His comments make him look like a really dour guy.

>curmudgeon
>dour
>forced him to make something fun

You sound like a cringey zoomer, fuck off with that "NOTHIN BUT GOOD VIBES BRO!!" shit. C&H made me laugh my ass off as a kid,it's not depressing at all. I doubt a man who's just dour all the time could replicate the joy in the imagination sequences where Calvin pretends to be a dinosaur or spaceman.

Because they read it when they were high.

Because their parents like it. Which automatically means it’s shit to them. Duh.

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And he chose to do so specifically through the medium of an entitled 6-year-old brat talking to his imaginary friend. The subtext here is not fucking hard to read.

Clearly you've never seen The Pipe Strip.

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Whats with all these zoomers and third worlders trying to shit on calvin and hobbes lately?

>being contrarian is new on Yea Forums

The same reason you troll.

Because it is, and I pity the human being who doesn’t see it that way.

Started with people getting free mad points because C & H is universally acclaimed among casuals and hardcores alike, of all ages. After it got a foothold for trolling, the actual batshit weirdos who don’t get it came out of the woodwork thinking they found their people.

I bet The Far Side is next.

>Next time, just make your point without pretending to know more than you do.
>Newspaper comic strips had only been around for 6 decades when C&H came along
Wait what

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Wait until you have kids. I was at a parent teacher conference today and I read my kids poem about Ice cream. First of all he was using structure and language I didn't know he was capable of and secondly I want to fuck a tub of raspberry ripple now.

It's called Aussie Rules

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This is still the only comic I Laughed Out Loud at

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...

The sequel was good too

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Calvin was apparently too dumb to know what "playing doctor" is supposed to be about
Presumably this is how he met the future President

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these and the tracer bullet ones were fuckin' kino

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Ship kino

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This is about accurate.

I don't know who told you Calvin & Hobbes is high art, but you probably shouldn't listen to them.

It's a funny and well-drawn comic strip that a lot of people enjoy and has a very impressive degree of staying power, but nobody's saying "Scientific Progress Goes Boink" needs to go in the Louvre.

How long has Yea Forums been trying to bait with "Calvin & Hobbes bad" now? It must be years at this point

CnH is practically timeless, so there will always be fags baiting to get more people talking about it.

>people feeling intellectually threatened by C&H
It's some basic musings about the absurdity of life's quirks and mortality coupled with decent art and jokes, people calling that pretentious are mouthbreathing retards

Hobbes x Susie smut when?

>Being contrarian is the new hotness
>on Yea Forums

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literally tiger from winnie the pooh and the art is all from the hundreds acre woods in the disney film as well.

People talk about the aesthetic or whatever, yeah he's a decent artist later on but again, all torn straight from a disney movie.

water balloons were fun but all the "profound" shit was boring and I didn't read it as a kid.

Pogo can tongue my anus as well.

>tiger

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigger

post the porn already

Based Hobbes

Why do you pretend it isn't in your shitty bait thread?

I demand you post the full thing.

>t. Zoomer

School's out for summer, so all the indoor children flock here

Let’s see your high art, you soulless prick

I dont think its "high art", what ever that even means these days, but it's a good series.

>I dont think its "high art"

its-not-its.info/

Cute

nice digits its

Because "art" is all the creator ever wanted it to be. He didn't care about the money, and it never dipped in quality. Just a nice, funny, wholesome comic.

That picture is obviously not by Watterson.

digit's

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These are terrible and unsatisfying. You need to stop at "let's go exploring!"

N-no! Next you'll be telling me Austin Powers isn't an official James Bond movie!

How naive of you to think that in the first place.

What's this poem then

Which Watterson was fully aware of due to Schultz and Davis

awful.

Dude me too. I wrote a sci fi schort story about killing myself in an alternate reality.

I remember me and one of my friends in elementary school had a deal where we could include each other in our stories, as long as we died by the end.

>Youse aint goin' nowhere, flatfoot.

Gets me every time

You’re telling me fans of Zoboomafoo are the majority on Yea Forums?

>Forced meme

>The Far Side

What a boomer comic.

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You learned why Yea Forums is bad about 9 years too late.

Yea Forums is bad for you.

same reason people think shit like adventure time or rick and morty isn't garbage, because they can't confront the idea that their tastes are equally garbage

The panel for hr is a better fit for /an/ maybe

Holy shit this comic is the definition of seething.

I didn't want to name names, but yeah.

kino

He also disliked art criticism since he read a book on the subject and decided it was the most pretentious thing her ever read

I get the confusion, you having come from a background where ones' appreciation in a thing is tied entirely to your dedication to the franchise and only a minority of people agreeing with you on any one thing. But what you're seeing isn't the reaction to what people consider high art. It's the reaction to something with halfway-decent writing (another concept you must be unfamiliar with).

Summer? Really?

It can only take like up to 30 seconds to post on Yea Forums, I don't think school is really pulling too many people away.

>/pol/

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it seems like Yea Forums and /jp/ should be swapped

I appreciate you. Please keep it up.

this is almost directly making fun of Roy Lichtenstein

Yea Forums's is definitely because of TTGL memes

Up your ass and to the left.

based and babysitterpilled

>Being contrarian is the new hotness on this website due to the influx of Latins.

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That's my opinin, man. Thoguh gotta agree I wish there was more in comic books.

Post the poem, fag

>Why do people pretend Calvin and Hobbes is high art?
Because C&H has never been shilled or exploited by mainstream corporations.
The comics have always stayed true to Bill Watterson's thought-provoking perspective of life with its narrative, and C&H ended as it SHOULD.
C&H has never been a sell-out like what Garfield has become since the 90s.

wow...forcing drumpf bad into the comics. utter trash and always some political faggotry

>2011
user

>Donald Trump
I know this was 2011, but come the fuck on.

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Donald Trump has always been a joke

Kek at pol and r9k