Mr Breathed is sure good at cartooning. Hobbs looks just right.

...just WOW.

I'm a big Berke fan, but I wonder if he ran this by Bill Watterson first. Bill's very protective of his characters, and never allowed any commercialization or use of them in any way.

How do you explain all those Calvin pissing on-insert thing you don't like here-stickers?

"Bill's very protective of his characters, and never allowed any commercialization or use of them in any way."

This isn't commercialization -- commercialization in this case would be using Hobbes to sell Opus merchandise. This is just parody, which is protected under the First Amendment as a form of free speech. Breathed may have run it by Watterson first as a courtesy, but he didn't need to. I somehow doubt any lawsuits will be filed -- Berke's used Guisewite's "Cathy" and Mark Slackmeyer from "Doonesbury" as well.

Breathed runs short series of cartoons. This series is political. The start was a cancer cell masquerading as a lobbyist. The idea being that lobbyists are the cancer of American politics. Now, we have an imaginary tiger masquerading as Steve. One can see where this series is heading. Go figure.

Some readers do not like politics. I'd suggest some serious thinking. Ancient Rome did not last. Will the USA last forever?

The human race is a cancer on our world. We now have the capability of destroying just about everything. We are multiplying beyond reason.

Clicking on my name will fetch a noted Australian.

God, I miss Calvin & Hobbes. It was a sad day when Watterson retired. :(

How do you explain all those Calvin pissing on-insert thing you don't like here-stickers?

Copyright infringement. My understanding is that those stickers are not officially licensed merchandise. Just another reason that they're evil.

But I'm not a lawyer (yet). Still, fair use still exists as a doctrine in copyright law.

... reminds me of Bill before he started freebasing Little Friskies ... musta been what he went to after Calvin stopped sharing whatever HE was obviously on ...

There's nothing inappropriate in Breathed spoofing Hobbes, though I always thought it was etiquette in such cases to write in the margins somewhere, "With apologies to Bill Watterson" or something to the effect...

And yeah, those Calvin pissing on things stickers actually really pissed Watterson off (no pun intended), and my understanding is that the copyright infringement (T-shirts, etc.) is one of the reasons he stopped drawing. He used to rant about it in the forwards to his books. As far as I know he pretty much refused to commercialize and cash in on his characters (ala Breathed, Schultz, etc., not that there's anything wrong with that).

That was a little bit more then I wanted to know about Opus.

Geez!

Opus can unwrap a roll of Life Savers and share the round-holed breath-fresh-mints with Berkeley Breathed. BB needs breath mints for bad breath Aphrodite Opus ~ who is wearing a risky tempting, and dazzling nighty.

Opus can dress in Victoria Secret undies, cowboy boots, denim jeans that fit tight, and Opus can fiddle to play the banjo duo with Salon's Unclaimed Territory guest. Others comment there who'd love Opus? Opus needs new friends. Opus can tap in time with Glenn and other foreign visitors. Opus can intercept Brazilian e-mails? Opus can monitor FISA White House e-mails and Capital Hill porn phone calls. No use cell phones, and complain about almost anything: Use Salon. Let loose: moan. groan. wail. crank. wear a red polka dot bandanna.

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Gripe about jammed government paper staplers, corrupt DoJ's staff, old age sore bones, undeserved DC appointments, undeserved jailing, ethnic jokes, incompetence, trillions wasted, bloody wars, lies, dirty unmatched socks, tight bra straps, brassy horns, and various loud clanging musical instruments, whining liberals, tv pundits, Sunday talk shows, and yack yack neoconservatives, slouched computer typist, cheap sentiments, no candy on Valentine Day, no daily lover, shoddy genital stimulator toys (why buy what the human fingers were designed for, anyway?), and orgasmic fakers, flimflammers, and phonies. This is not a criticism of people who have garlic breath.

Garlic is an aphrodisiac.

GoodCelery is annoying

Remember the times Cuz Berke parodied the DON of the Comixclan, Mickey Mouse? He escaped those wicked potential lawsuits as deftly as old Führer Walt did back in the 1930's when the REAL father of "Micky(sic)Mouse"(forgot his name) ( repleat with the Black-face mistrel costume white gloves, yellow and black and red and big shoes) failed to get his property trademarks back in Ohio court after the Disney theft, after the shock of his own critter portraying Steamboat Willie (drawn up c.1927). Disney is the true Comix phoney.

Breathed once ran concealed identity skits on (Don) Mickey (the fraud)in a torture witness chair and has routinely savaged his colleagues as a running gag. He has actually taken on Watterson before but here, as Dedalus exposed beneath as Hobbes, has yet more layers of meaning.

I keep telling everyone to truly understand B.B. one must comb through pages of James Joyce and perform Joycean tests on even the fine print. Look for the "Radience" or any pun in Greek or Hebrew. Exposees are another Joyce illumination. Odd, that the Tiger, Hobbes isn't very Hobbsian and also Steve isn't very much like Dedalus- except for the Labrynth of his libedo and his proximity to Mr. Mulligan, Mr Bloom and, of course Midas.

It's true. The comics are the only part of Salon still uncorrupted.

I know anitacrane already corrected you, but your post made my head spin.

Those "Piss on . . . " decals are famously NOT authorized by Watterson.

Then read vaporland.

I don't get what's supposed to be funny here at all. Do I have to know the history of Bloom Country for this to make sense?

I am always suspicious when somebody purports to allude to Joyce (e.g., Luka Bloom, who had not, at the time of his name change, actually read Ulysses--he just thought Poldy;s named sounded cool).

Can you show me some of those puns, etc--because, frankly, the Steven D. Dallas thing seems kind of Luka Bloom-y to me.

And goodceleryexclamationmark is indeed a bore. See my earlier references to his better, the man from whom he "borrowed" (heh-heh) "his" (ho-ho) "style" (ha-ha).