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Random Internet site of the week: Calvin and Hobbes Resurrection

Date 12/11/2003 12:00 AM | Topic: Arts & Culture

If you're a fan of the spectacular and sorely missed Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, Calvin and Hobbes Resurrection () is the Internet site of your dreams.

The site was launched in February of 2000, nearly five years after the final Calvin and Hobbes comic appeared in papers, and is lovingly maintained and updated by a Mr. Joe Peicott.

The site features character information, interviews with the comic's creator Bill Waterson, interactive games, animations, quotes, and polls. If it relates to Calvin and Hobbes this site has it.

Head to the link titled "Fun Stuff" and find games ranging from Space Man Spiff's daring exploits and a Pac-Man like Stupendous Man game to snowball target practice with Susie Derkins as the target. Some of the other games are a bit lame, but scroll down to "Site Articles" and find a clever article that suggests Calvin and Hobbes grew up to become "Jack" and Tyler Durden from the film Fight Club.

The author, Galvin B. Chow, correlates Calvin's creation of an imaginary friend that, in a sense, becomes real to him, to the relationship between "Jack" and the imaginary Tyler in Fight Club. Chow makes further connections between Susie Derkins and Marla Singer, Calvin and "Jack's" distaste for authority figures, and the possibility that Robert Paulson was in fact Calvin's childhood nemesis Moe.

The most startling evidence lies in Calvin's secret club, G.R.O.S.S. (Get Rid Of Slimy girlS), which naturally evolved into the male-angst centered Fight Club. Okay, it's a stretch, and it's a comic strip, but there is a certain genius about this article that is positively hilarious.

Peicott has amassed an archive of articles relating to Bill Waterson and Calvin and Hobbes, as well as featuring several links to other popular Calvin and Hobbes Web sites.

The fondness for the hyperactive cartoon tyke and his philosophizing tiger is perceived in the small tributes to the rambunctious duo. One area of the site is devoted to the poetry featured in Calvin and Hobbes comics.

Another area exhibits the clever, yet macabre, snowman-art Calvin is renowned for producing.

Calvin and Hobbes Resurrection is a great site for fans of the comic to encounter a little nostalgia and relive the magical adventures of a boy with an imagination matched only by his creator.

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Philip Laaveg
A&E Editor

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