This comic makes me smile wistfully.

No, it wasn't drawn by Bill, but I think this comic is really well done. I found it while looking online for some photos for the school paper I'm laying out. It brought a smile to my face, since it seems appropriate for the tone of the strip, if you fast-forward 20 years into the future. Calvin was a bit of a troublemaker, but in a gentle, awesome way.

I got the image from this site here, who got it from somewhere else as well. Probably that picture site in the bottom right, but I have no idea who the original artist is.

Uh, whoops! Cartooninating.

Note: Click for full-size.

I know that my long-awaited return to drawing was supposed to happen today, but unfortunately, I lacked some foresight on this - I have no pencils! Therefore, because I don't want to compromise my high, high concept art, the strip will be delayed until next week. Try to still your rapidly beating hearts.

I will give a few hints though, and say that the dinosaur from last week's entry - the Largeasaurus - will feature prominently into the strip. Like Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes, I believe there is always room for a dinosaur in everything. Even if some of them, like Cracked.com points out, had big manes of feathers. (Note: Be careful with that site. Like Wikipedia, I can go on sickening reading binges on Cracked. You've been warned.)

To hold you over until I get my act together, have y'all been reading Pearls Before Swine? It's probably my favorite actual comic, narrowly edging Get Fuzzy, although I have to read it online since my local paper doesn't carry it. I normally peek at this LiveJournal community, which posts the comics almost every day.

Also, because I don't waste my time on the Internet enough, I still check out Homestar Runner from time to time. Sure, most of my friends stopped visiting after the few months it was popular for us in college. But I'm still a fan. One of the better skits was Strong Bad's take on techno music, which you can watch on YouTube here. If that piques your interest, the site itself is accessed by its snazzy name here.

Linking on Lost and Calvinism

A couple of quick hits for the early post today...

- If you didn't get enough of my liveblog on LOST last night, Cousin Brandon has an exhaustive look at the premiere on his blog. Check out part one here and part two here. I chip in a couple of comment on part two, because I'm ill like that.

Reading Brandon's analysis reminds me of how incredible deep the whole storyline is though, and how you can find great, interlocking content across all aspects of LOST. And, that's all I'll say for now, in the interest of 1) not rambling on about the show for yet another post and 2) preventing myself from ruining the episode for others.

- In completely random news, Bill Watterson randomly gave his first interview in more than 20 years! It was for Cleveland.com, and you can read it here. As a warning though, it is kind of disappointing. The writer comes off more like an excited fanboi than a journalist, and he's more obsessed with the legacy of the strip then the most obvious question - What the eff is he doing now?

Calvin and Hobbes is still my favorite cartoon strip of all-time, because it lasted pretty much the perfect amount of time, and the quality never really suffered. Pearls Before Swine and Get Fuzzy are trying to get in my pantheon with Calvin and Hobbes, Peanuts and The Far Side.

Brandon's picture is from his blog, and the Calvin and Hobbes picture is from the Wiki page on the strip.