Calvin and Hobbes' Lazy Sunday Book - Bill Watterson

Calvin and Hobbes' Lazy Sunday Book - Bill Watterson: Calvin and Hobbes... the Sunday Strips (999 words)
by thebluehippo - written on 24.02.07 (Very useful, 148 readings)
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First published in the UK in 1990, we have a collection of Calvin and Hobbes Sunday strips. For those of you unfamiliar with Calvin and Hobbes it's a comic strip that was created by Bill Watterson and has been syndicated in newspapers for over ten years and still to this day the old strips are reprinted. The story tells us of Calvin a rather imaginative, intelligent and yet quite troublesome boy and his pet tiger Hobbes. What you soon learn when you start reading the strips is that Hobbes can only be seen by Calvin, where everyone else sees him as a stuffed toy tiger. Now whether Hobbes is just a part of Calvin's imagination or whether he only comes to life ...

Sunday is only one day of the week (134 words)
by Waagh - written on 20.06.01 (Useful, 20 readings)
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A heresy and a pox upon the publishers souls, this book is an abomination. Right, now that that's out of the way, on with the review. The problem with this book is not the strips contained within, most of which are hilariously funny, nor with such ephemera as binding, printing or the introduction. The problem is that this is a collection of the full page, full colour sunday strips from Calvin & Hobbes. These strips are all reprinted in the other Calvin & Hobbes books, along with all of the weekday strips. Unless you have a particular penchant for owning the same things twice, or you only find full colour cartoons worthy, buy the ...

Calvin and Hobbes' Lazy Sunday Book - Bill Watterson: Essential Coffee Table Book (93 words)
by Devlin - written on 18.02.01 (Useful, 11 readings)
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Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday book is essential for any coffee table. The content of the book will provide light entertainment for many years. My version has been thumbed through so many times paper cuts are now impossible. It will also act as a distraction for young children should you not have any of your own and suddenly have a need to keep one amused (i.e. Neice/Nephew, child of a friend etc.). If you are completely unfamiliar with the story-line, even better - this is a timeless classic and worth every penny. ...