Bill Watterson’s Calvin & Hobbes is one of the most beloved comic strips of all time, filled with humor, wisdom, and a whole lot of adventuring. So it seems perfect that artist Emily McLain would create these cheeky typographic posters featuring sage quotes from the mouths of our favorite odd couple. Plus, “reality continues to ruin my life” is pretty much a daily refrain over here, so we’d love to have it in poster form. Click through to check out our favorites from the series, which we spotted over at Inspiration Feed, and then head on over to McLain’s Tumblr to see more of her work. … Read More
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What Your Favorite Comic Says About You
Yesterday, at long last, the paperback edition of The Complete Calvin and Hobbes hit stores. As far as we can tell, there is a certain kind of person who really goes gaga for Calvin and Hobbes — the person who as a kid loved to tromp through the forest all day and come home to read on the couch with a fat hot chocolate at night, who maybe saw things a little differently than those pesky grownups — and that got us to thinking. While being into comics already gets you into the first stage of nerdery, the stories the form brings us range from the serious to the goofball, the superhero to the realist, so there’s no real way to lump comic fans all together. So what does your favorite comic (or graphic novel, just to be inclusive) say about you? Find out after the jump — and let us know if we’ve hit the nail on the head or if you’re plotting our demise in the comments. … Read More
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