A Half-Baked Analysis of Calvin and Hobbes
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2024
- 0:00 - Intro
0:16 - About this video
1:16 - The Sunday Strip Format
6:56 - T-Rex Poem
8:52 - Christmas Poem
9:41 - Spaceman Spiff
10:17 - Future Home
11:06 - Abducted by Aliens
12:32 - Laboratory Rat
13:11 - Colors and Gradients
14:02 - Allosaurus
15:27 - Spaceman Spiff Colors
16:44 - Mom Makes Dinner
19:38 - Violent Comics
20:45 - Tyrannosaurs in F-14s!!
23:58 - A Day at School
25:06 - Afterthought
25:58 - Outro
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I always loved when he would draw something realistic like the triceratops in one panel and then a super cartoony zoomed out rendering of the same thing in the next. So great.
Calvin and Hobbes is a masterpiece.I love how Bill Watterson explored his interests through his strips.
One thing I find really interesting is how the most realistic panels are the ones where Calvins imagination is shown.I think it shows
how vivid his imagination is.
My favourites were always the wagon and toboggan ones where they would go down a hill, spaceman spiff, the monstrous snowmen, and the one where his world starts to go cubist
The cubist one was one of my favorites too. Calvin describing what was happening to him in Cubist-world, then popping back to reality where he was disagreeing with his dad -- that right there was the best explanation of what Cubism is and what it's trying to do I've ever seen, much better than anything from school or from an art book.
One other style he did that had a big impact on me as a kid was his black/white detective noir strips.
say hi to Mr Billion for me.
His noir version of Calvin was one of my favorites! Tracer Bullet was his name, I think.
I had a stack of sunday comics from when i was a kid that i collected over probably three years; they burned in the Camp Fire but when I saw that stack in your hand it made me think of them.
This makes me smile so much to see your original strips. I cut out so many of the same exact ones you did. I laminated mine as a kid to hang them in my locker and later hung them on my college dorm. Yours even un laminated are in better shape than mine. They’re hanging up in my art classroom today because they’re just such a stellar example of being a master artist in a unlikely medium. Bill Watterson inspired a whole generation of artists, he was such a creative genius.
Wow! That is so cool.
Probably my favorite comic of all time.
I used to do the same thing with Calvin and Hobbes strips! I was always so blown away by the brush work. I really feel like the decline of the newspaper industry was directly tied to the death of Sunday comics. Thanks for the video!
"the decline of the newspaper industry was directly tied to the death of Sunday comics" spoken like a true comics fan!
@@jakeparker44 my man... Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side... that was my gateway to illustration and humor. They took things to a whole new level!
Some of my most cherished memories involved reading Calvin and Hobbes with my son when he was just a kid. I’ll always love Calvin and Hobbes! ✌🏼
Was always my favorite comic strip. He was someone early on who ended up unlocking my love of art and making it. Missed the heyday, but I always tried to get the anthologies. Thanks for the video.
~6:20 - If I recall correctly, the thing was that newspaper editors would just rearrange the panels however they wanted and that really pissed off Bill Watterson. So he started doing comics with panels that couldn't be cut and rearranged.
(for the Sunday strips, of course.)
Love seeing what stuck with you and crawled into your psyche and comes out the other side into your work - that CalvinBot with the open braincase full of gears feels SO JP 😁
Calvin and Hobbes is the OG of all comics, absolutely the best
Bill Watterson and Calvin and Hobbes are so inspiring. Thank you Jake for sharing this review.
I just bought the complete collection of C&H 3 volume set! You can never feature C&H to much! I once searched and searched for a toy for my nephew since we both were fans but we all know that Waterson never allowed merchandise to be sold. I finally just created a copy of a strip, it was one where they were dancing to music from a record player. I enlarged it to a full watercolor sheet 22x30 inches. I guess you will say I stole it, but my nephew still has that Painting/Drawing in his room today! I did what I had to do to make a kid happy! It made me happy as well!
I'd like to think he would be ok with that since you didn't try to make money off of it.
Why am I not surprised that you cut out ALL THE DINO STRIPS?
Hahaha. Seriously, I could not be bothered with his other more suburban fare.
Great video, thanks for the break down of his strips. I couldn’t agree more, Calvin and Hobbes shaped my love of animated and dynamic art in ways I didn’t realise. You nailed it with the ‘he didn’t have to draw it so well, but he did anyway’ style of thinking. I think that’s something so often overlooked when work is so consistently great. The effort and sheer love he put into his work is so evident in every strip, and like other great work, I think that’s what makes it endure.
Calvin and Hobbes is one of my favorites as well! Really fun to see these types of videos. Thanks!
My favorite strip was in '89 when Calvin would wake up and fall to his doom a few times until he was afraid to get out of bed. As a kid, I had dreams like that.
You dream about falling and then wake upon slamming into the floor
Man…. The amount of sheer talent (skill & application) it takes to nail comics is insane.. That’s why I appreciate you all so much. Absolutely love Watersons stuff. I’ll be honest, I wasn’t so heavy into his work until I started following yourself more than 7 years ago. Love this video!
Even as a young kid who didnt even understand half of the words, my favourites were always the philosophical ones. The comics that made me laugh were nice, but its the ones that made me think that I loved
I read some of this when I was a kid. I think I appreciate it more as an adult.
He was my biggest inspiration
still is
I'm loving these comic analysis it has so many things to learn and it's really helpful for creators out there !
One of the best gifts i gave my kids for Christmas was the Calvin & Hobbes complete collection. They're read those books countless times. For most of last year they spent reading the books; trading books back and forth, restarting the whole series over and over and over. Much fun and inspiration for them.
Found this fascinating, yep make me look at the pages more in-depth, beautiful artistry. I liked this quite a bit um don’t know how it will do with views but hopefully good enough for you to do another. I thought by signing for the Inktober news letters I was signed up, went and had a quick look and signed up so thanks for the heads up. Have a great week and thank you for all the new ideas.
Loved to see your newspaper clippings, Jake. I also used to do that sometimes.
Such a master, so timeless! I love Watterson's work on every level. One of my most favourite itens in my collection is the complete Calvin and Hobbes, with the beautiful box and all. Always very inspiring.
I wish I had a transmogrifier, I'd turn into a dinosaur and thank Bill for drawing me so well.
Thank you for this video. I absolutely love Watterson’s work. Your newspaper clippings brought back to many good memories…
Jake, I love that your heart comes through loud and clear in your art, your love of art, family and zest for life!
Some of the best content on CZcams! @JakeParker - Thank you for leading creatives in such a thoughtful and intentional way. All the best! Now, time to go buy some Calvin and Hobbes...
Thanks Jake! There’s so much to love about Calvin & Hobbes. Same as you, I got into it because it was funny and I noticed it was better than the other comics in the paper. But the more you read the more you noticed the artistic skill. I only had one of the books, but I still use it as a reference for how to draw snow, birds, and trees in b&w. Amazing stuff!
Hi. I Just want to say that i appreciate so much what you have done here. And i want to say that it makes me think of a part of my life that is so important to me but at the same time is gone and forgotten. I took a class at the University of Florida and it was called comic books and animation. The professor was Don Ault. Long story short it was the only class in college that really touched my heart and my soul. Essentially he was someone who saw comics such as cavin and hobbes as social commentaries and also works of art. He was someone who had recorded the disney channel for most of his life on VHS. I dont know how to describe how kind and caring and fun he was. I wish i had gotten to know him better. He was a personal friend of Carl Barks, the creator of Donald Duck and so it made sense that people called him Don Ault Duck. When Carl Barks passed away he gave us a week off from class because he lost a friend. Not just a friend who made comics that he loved but a friend in his life who he appreciated more than anyone. And to me it was beautiful. It will be something that i will never forget. If for nothing else he showed his students the beauty that lied beneath the surface of comics such as krazy katz, calvin and hobbes, donald duck and so many others. For that i will always be grateful and feel like i was privilege to something special and videos like yours remind of this. So for that i thank you.
Great video, brought back some wonderful memories!
My ex-wife got me an appointment at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum in Columbus one year for my birthday for a private viewing of his original works, it was amazing. You get to wear white gloves and actually hold the original strips and analyze all of the linework, it's beautiful. Bill Watterson and Joe Murray are the reasons I got into drawing and still continue to this day.
Amazing! I'm jealous you got to HOLD them.
@@jakeparker44 I beleive anyone can do it, you just need to arrange for an appointment if you're ever back in Columbus. They'll ask which strips in particular you want to see in person and you can pick your favorites, I felt like a kid in a candy store. It was a similar experience as seen in the film "Dear Mr. Watterson" (which isn't as good as the documentary "Stripped" that actually has Bill Watterson interviews, in my opinion).
I worked at a music special collections library for over 5 years. I recommend that if you would like to preserve your newspaper comics the best storage is L shaped mylar sleves inside an archival box. Over time coloration and paper becomes brittle and will fall apart. Hopefully this helps, thank you for sharing your collection!
Awesome Jake thanks
His work inspired me so much and still does!
Excellent! Loved C&H since the 1980’s and, like you, it taught me so much about drawing in a stylistic yet expressive way. I must get hold of The Complete Calvin & Hobbes!
Tyrannosaurs in F-14's is so stupid and cool.
Love Calvin and Hobbes and your analysis is AMAZING! Thank you!
Watching this video again after a couple months, something is drawing me back.
Great video, Jake! Bill Watterson and Calvin and Hobbes are, by far, my greatest influence to drawing and loving comics. Those 10 years had a huge impact on so many. To me, the comics page was never the same when C&H left.
Great job on this!
Awesome video! Realy liked
Calvin and Hobbes is timeless. It still brings a smile to my face this day and Bill is one of my biggest influence. Spaceman Spiff rules!
Calvin and Hobbes meant a lot to me growing up. My Mom always made sure to buy the collection books for me. She still has them all.
Great vid thanks!
Thanks for the good ol' memories about the gem that is Calvin and Hobbes. I read it a few years ago, but probably missed a lot of it. Planning on getting the complete collection now. :-)
Thank you for sharing Jake. Calvin and Hobbes has so much to deliver and offer. I particularly am moved by the panels with the watercolour wet into wet background with soft edges contrasting the main figures the middle and foreground so well defined. Besides the graphic composition and the child like wonder his philosophical debates and social queries always were provocative as well as funny.
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Finally moved this from my to-watch to watched. I completely agree with you, Jake---I wish the reproductions were a little less clean-or, more accurately, I wish they were also available on newsprint . I also cut out a lot of them but they're buried in the garage....
i like how he shows his artistic ability here and there in what seems like a simple comic art
Glad to see you fixed the focusing issue :D
Video was so informative , loved the colors he used . Thank you for introducing such a legend to me ,
Please make more videos about your art style inspirations , just like this one . Wanna learn more about colors and style , please make videos like this about jack Kirby etc
I have these books in a box in my garage;for probably about 17 to 18 years now. Cool.
Inspirational!
When I was a little kid, I did a lot of crazy stuff like Calvin. I didn't have a companion like Hobbes, however.
I was an exchange student living in Germany for 6 months in my junior year of high school. I was a such a massive C&H fan that my parents would cut out the strips and send them to me. So much respect for Watterson and his decision to never authorize merchandizing of Calvin & Hobbes. He was truly in it for the love of the craft, and the story telling, not the money and fame.
Curious if you’ve ever read the comic strip ‘Cul de Sac’ by Richard Thompson? Bill Watterson wrote the foreword for the first book collection and the whimsy, writing, and art (though a different style of line work) feels so close to the heart of what Calvin and Hobbes was/is. It’s my favourite strip of all time.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe Watterson said he stopped drawing dinosaurs after Jurassic Park came out.
I love calvin and hobbes
Jake! We need some inktober CZcams content this year!!
I'm super pumped but it feels like no one else is 😭 Anything inktober themed would be so cool
Like an ink beacon for the artists taking part!
various gags and themes I remember include : Spaceman spiff, dinosaurs, annoying car rides, the baby sitter, the snow goons, hobbes pouncing on calvin, hobbes trying to eat calvin, Moe bullying, affairs with Suzie, the tree club, little men inside the head, daydreaming at school, waiting for the school bus in the rain, being a pain to mrs Wormwood, stupendous man, tracer bullet noir, mum cooking bad meals, the dinner meal fighting with calvin, Suzie being disgusted be calvins lunch, time travel box, transmorgifier, walking in the autumn, the spaghetti incident, the car in the ditch incident, dad confusing and lying to calvin, dad's nature outings, dad making calvin build character, grotesque snow sculptures ...
I can keep going a bit here, I'll stop.
ohhhh, my favorite comic. If I had had a son instead of a daughter he would have been named Calvin.( I got an Amelia and am very happy with that.) I always knew I liked his illustrations but never took the time to find out why. I appreciate your thoughts on it.
T-Rex in a F-14 reminds me of your Dragon-robot combo
It pains me to see the Bambi strip just passed over as I think it's one of his best (and darkest) gags - but with Watterson there's just no way to cover it all in one video! Loved the focus on the dinos
Bill Waterson is very impressive. I have every book with his name on it. They are a must.
18:48 Looks like there is the wrong part colored for the eye in the third panel, ha :)
oh wow, yeah, they messed that up! Didn't notice that.
Yes
Real thing, 👌
I love Calvin and Hobbes!
19:38 - I remember that one being a snide commentary of his on comic books, which he was not a fan of. He mentioned that in one of his C & H treasuries.
Yes, that's right! I remember that now too. I gotta go back and read those essays he wrote.
18:47 what is up with that t-rex? It looks like the colorist (assuming it wasn't Waterson) misidentified one of the brow spikes as an eye, and colored it red. weird. Great drawing though.
I love Calvin and Hobbes!! ❤️❤️
My favorite comic!
I used to cut them out as well!
Hey jake, could you do a video on maki g your art more 3D and dynamic? And also one on effects.
I know this may not be possible because you’re a full time artist, but they’re videos I’d like to see
I did the same and still have them
Do you like drawing dinosaurs because Waterson did it so well? It is intoxicating, I would start drawing trex today after looking at these comic pages... Thank you for new video!!!!
I think that's why I like it so much!
@@jakeparker44 Amazing, i love daily comic strips esthetics of Garfield and Peanuts and Popeye, so i don't care if it looks too simple, i go for it to illustrate my children's book series... When you love something you go for it:))) it makes me smile each time i ink and colour... Thank you for replying!!! :)
Sure you have seen what BB has just done with Calvin and Hobbes! I hope you do one of these with Bloom County (mostly Opus) but they both ruled the 80s and 90s!
How about a Johnny Hart video about his B.C. & Wizard of Id strips?! Just an idea, Cheers!
Who else feels like jake should make a discord server. I think it's good idea. There will definitely be many benefits.
19:02 did he screw up eye placement or is it a really unfortunate highlight color?
it's messed up.
I still have to buy the complete box set on Amazon 🤦♀️
Lol for some reason I liked Archie comics too.🤣
At around 19:09 mark it looks like a color error. The red color for the left eye of T-Rex was placed on one of the forehead ridges instead of the eye.
I don't care about a man's politics. If he appreciates Calvin and Hobbes, we can be friends. Kind of looking forward to Armageddon now 😂🙏
Why is no one ever inspired by FoxTrot or Apartment 3G or Hi & Lois?
FIRST!
The reason why I don’t watch ur video anymore it because I only like seeing u draw not showing things and talking
Understandable. If watching me draw is what you're into, you can join my patreon. For now, I really just like showing things and talking.
For better artwork you can checkout manga
What manga should I check out?
@@jakeparker44 manga means Japanese comic books inside those books there are very detailed drawings :)
Let me guess...you're going to write a Calvin and Hobbs book and claim it's original?
This video makes me wish I had kept the strips I cut out. 🥲