Know what? My kids were teeny babies once, too, and I also thought Calvin and Hobbes made fine reading material. They laugh, I laugh, everybody’s happy.
And then the teeny babies grow up a bit. And then suddenly comics about hyperactive six-year-olds who are in constant trouble at school, cause hundreds of dollars of damage to the house in a single day, are notorious throughout the neighborhood, and seem to live in a slightly different (albeit much better) reality than you do just aren’t quite as funny as they once were.
Enjoy it while you can, guys.
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All I can think is “how awesome!” Awesome idea (although Mr. No-Licensed-Images-Watterson may disagree), and beautifully executed.
Can’t really blame him, with some of the nasty/ obnoxious things people do with poor Calvin on the decals on their pickup trucks.
But yes, this is lovely.
I was about to bring that issue up myself. Not that that detracts from this wall’s Epic Win-ness in any way.
We have the complete Clavin and Hobbes collection…and when our son is old enough to understand that Calvin is not a role model to be emulated, we plan on introducing him to a boy and his tiger.
I think I’ve linked to this before, but it’s so good I’ll do it again: http://www.defectiveyeti.com/archives/001644.html
This is the sweetest wallpaper ever, I don’t think I’d ever outgrow it.
But they’re so sweet when they’re ASLEEP!
I wonder where you find that mural? it’s definitely printed and glued up, not painted on. Its’ awesome. Hobbes is awesome.
I was just thinking that would be easy to paint on, and my artist brain was busy planning out how I’d do it…
Nope, it’s painted on, according to the guy who did it. He used “an overhead projector, a big white wall, a pencil and 8 or 9 colors of latex from Lowes.”
You’d have to find a way to keep that projector really, really steady.
Not really– projectors don’t have a habit of dancing around, and it’s easy to avoid kicking them. This is actually how people paint backdrops for theater, only they usually use charcoal on a stick instead of pencil because of the scale.
Not to mention that once you get started, if you do jerk your projector off center, it’s not difficult to realign with the what you’ve already drawn. Not that I’ve ever kicked my projector. Ever. Not me. *whistles*
Yep, that’s pretty much how I was planning it out in my mind as well!
The heck with the kids’ room. I want this for ME!
I was thinking the same.
Hobbes? I thought that was Garfield after getting on board with Jenny Craig.
I’ve always imagined that when Dennis the Menace grew up, he married either Margaret or Gina and they had a little boy named Calvin . . . . .
Oh, me too! My Dad’s first name is Dennis (although he usually goes by a nickname), and Mom frequently calls him Dennis the Menace when he’s in full-on chaos mode. Hee!
Love it!
ha! guess what Q and I have been reading lately?! I do worry he’s getting some pretty rotten ideas, but I also can’t help myself…
No! Learn from my mistakes! Not that I’ve stopped at all…
Still a Calvin and Hobbes fan. Want!
As an artist, I’d be vacillating between “very flattered” and “highly annoyed at the art theft” if someone did this with my art. I don’t think this instance really falls under “fair use”, and Watterson probably didn’t ok it. Ah well. It is well-executed and looks great, but it’s frustrating that people feel that Art is theirs to do with as they please, even when it’s not theirs.
Actually, as long as the person painted it on their own wall, it is fair use. Now, if they began painting it on other people’s walls and getting paid for it, copy right infringement.
‘xactly.
This is a great example of a listing agent’s dilemma. On one hand it is very specific, on the other hand it’s very well done. Do you leave it, or make the owner paint it over? I vote for “leave it”.
Technically, the buyer is buying the house, not the mural. It’s merely an unremovable fixture of the bulding, (in that it can’t be taken down like a hung painting). No direct value is being placed on the mural and whether it’s a selling point or not could be debated either way. So, its existence is neutral. I vote leave it.
I would love to have that on my wall, I am a big Calvin and Hobbs fan (when I was little and now) So, Epic Win in my opinion ( if I had a vote, I wouldn’t paint over it)