It's A Magical World: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

It's A Magical World

A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

by Bill Watterson
(based on 78 customer reviews)

It's A Magical World: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection (Paperback)
Author: Bill Watterson
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing


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37 out of 38 people found the following review helpful.
Review Date: 1/4/00


The hardcover edition is the only way to go on this treasure

For over a decade, Calvin and Hobbes was a part of our families. We came to know Calvin and his suave stuffed tiger, Hobbes. We shared in his divine 'love' for his mother's cooking. We got the warm fuzzies as he and Susie Derkins played out their young romance through insults and secret G.R.O.S.S. meetings. We laughed at Calvin's vivid imagination through installments of Tracer Bullet, Stupendous Man, and the incomparable Spaceman Spiff (zounds!). And we cried and smiled through tears as Calvin learned the value of life and the pricelessness of a true friend. Calvin and Hobbes encapsulates every special moment of childhood, and can melt away the hard shell of even the most jaded and bitter individual. This comic strip is a celebration of life, and while it saddens me to realize that I'll never be able to share future adventures with them, I can always go back and relive those past moments again trough wonderful collections such as this. Since this book is the final collection, you owe it to yourself to own it in hardcover form. I can't recommend this book (or any of the others) enough. If there's a child somewhere in your soul, all of these books are absolutely essential.

20 out of 20 people found the following review helpful.
Review Date: 3/19/03


seriously funny !

Bill Watterson's creation of Calvin and Hobbes is for my taste the ultimate adult comic strip; six year old Calvin, his stuffed tiger Hobbes, and his extensive and witty vocabulary, can be laugh-out-loud hilarious.
In this large, softcover book, you get all the usual suspects: The dreaded Miss Wormwood, Calvin's schoolteacher, who has to put up with his imaginitive but lame excuses, snowball fights with Susie, Spaceman Spiff, who gets stranded on distant planets, and of course, his stressed out parents.

Other characters include two marvelous one-eyed aliens, Galaxoid and Nebular, who buy the earth from Calvin for 50 leaves, but when it snows, claim they were overcharged, and demand that Calvin bring the planet up to code, and Calvin's musings on whether there is an Evil Santa, who gives to the bad girls and boys "the dangerous, annoying, and corrupting toys your parents won't allow", and best of all, when he decides to be a Suburban Post-Modernist artist, and claims that "art isn't about ideas, it's about style".

Hobbes is my favorite cartoon animal, drawn as a stuffed toy when seen from non-Calvin eyes, but a wise and playfull being in Calvin's magical world. There's a lot of love between them, and the hug on the back cover of this book says it all. Calvin and Hobbes will appeal to the rebel in us all, provide numerous laughs, and warm our hearts on cold days.

13 out of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Review Date: 9/14/04


The Last of the Magic

This is the final collection of comics from CALVIN AND HOBBES, arguably my favorite comic strip of all times. Cartoonist Bill Watterson chose to retire before he drained all the magic out of his characters. While I'm disappointed, that is probably wise since this collection shows he was still at the top of his game.

Calvin can make an adventure out of everything, whether it's having Susie over for an afternoon (a great day for GROSS), trying to get out of school, playing Calvinball with Rosalyn, or putting off a leaf collection project until the very last night, his antics are sure to make you laugh. The genius of the strip is that we're often laughing at ourselves. Hobbes's comments are often funny and true, and watch out for the Chewing magazine strips. They hit a little too close to home.

This strip got better as it went along, and there is some classic stuff here. It's a little bitter sweet reading the last few knowing it's the end. And I still want to know what the noodles incident was.

While there are some strips out there I enjoy, I still miss this great strip. If you somehow managed to miss it, pick up any book today. It's guaranteed to have you laughing in no time.

11 out of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Review Date: 7/21/99


It's the last of this stupendous series of books by Waterson

It broke fan's hearts when they heard it. Bill Watterson was retiring from the Calvin & Hobbes business. IT'S A MAGICAL WORLD is Bill Watterson's last Calvin & Hobbes collection, and it keeps the original life of Calvin and Hobbes the same, but all new comics come in. The only put down of this book is that if a seven year-old buys it, some of the jokes may be hard for them to understand it. Myself, owning seven other Calvin & Hobbes books, think this is by far the best one. Don't get me wrong, now. All the others I have would be at least a seven on the rating scale. This is truly one of the best books I've ever read, though I also read chapter books, and the best Calvin & Hobbes book I've read. If you like Calvin & Hobbes, but need some new good comics to read, this is a must buy. At a store, I would buy it for twenty dollars. Although, the list price is a good fifteen dollars, why not order it from Amazon.com? It's only $13.45. I remember a few weeks ago, I was out to buy a Calvin & Hobbes book, but I didn't know which one to choose. My choices were THE AUTHORATIVE CALVIN AND HOBBES, THERE IS TREASURE EVERYWHERE, and IT'S A MAGICAL WORLD. I bought IT'S A MAGICAL WORLD,not knowing what to expect. I had only read about fifteen pages when I decided it was the best choice I could have made, and that I should put a review on it. For you fans with broken hearts out there, you can keep the pride of Calvin & Hobbes forever, with the best collection. You can buy what you want, but for everyone, IT'S A MAGICAL WORLD will cheer you up any day. Happy Reading!

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