How was this image legally allowed to happen and why was

>>94436610
te meo dijo el calvin

>>94436610
Because the artist doesn't lisence his own merchandise and doesn't actively protect his copyright.

>>94436668
This. I can commend him for not being a complete sellout but I'm sure he could have done some small things to make money, right?

>>94436610
Why did I just realize that's Calvin?

>>94436717
It's tragic that we have no merchandise as fans, but you have to admire the fact that he has an iron will.

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>>94436610
Waterson had to sell a portion of the rights of calvin (not hobbes) to the first paper he worked for, a commin practice for non-syndicates at the time (but now illegal). The owner of that paper, Arle Jones (Jerry Jones's uncle) died suddenly and the rights were supposed to revert back to Waterson but the paper owner's son fought it. In a rare public statment/outburst Waterson said "I cannot risk this kid pissing on my legacy". The son was so incensed by the comment he hired, then well known adult comic artist, Doug Lampton to do exactly that. Before the rights could fully revert Jones licensed out the piss design to a number of companies and the subsequent merchandise spewed forth. Waterson decided not to fight the licenses with his rights fully restored and due to this, and the fact C and H became huge, the knock offs became extermly popular, and uncontested. The rumor is Waterson continued the licenses and makes a killing but i think he just does not give a fuck.

>>94436717
>wanting to make money with your creation makes you a sellout

I'll never understand this retarded logic

Oh my god!!! I JUST realized this is Kevin.

Obviously, these are Chinese knockoffs with no way to punish people for buying them. Unless this is from an actual scene, there's no trademark showing or the iconic colors seen anywhere.

>>94436837
did you make that up

>>94436888
I don't get it either. JK Rowling managed to make a shit ton of money off of her creation while still retaining full creative rights.

No one is saying once you make merch, you have to go full autist and have Calvin and Hobbes on every box of mac n cheese. But there is no harm in making official Hobbes plushies. Shit, if he still has rights to his property, he could do it through kickstarter and still retain all merch license.

>>94436837
Damn, pic related is kinda creepy

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>>94436941
>Kevin

>>94436780
I know hyperbole is big with you internet kids but it isn't anything close to tragic.

>>94436985

Here's my question: Why does he have to make merch with it in the first place?

>>94436888
He still sells his comics anon. It's not like he would be the one making the merch.

>>94436985
You have to understand the man. He never had a passion for this, he is actually a poet, he writes amazing poems. He just got caught up in something bigger than he is and left it all alone.

>>94437003
Please don't kill me, mr dog

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>>94437373

Too late.

>>94436780
technically there were two calendars with unique art during the 80s, but yeah, not much merch

>>94436780
>iron will.

He is craven and spineless. The amount of praise this guy gets for his failure to understand how to manage his image and creation is baffling.

>>94437027
No one said he had to, but to denounce all merchandise as if the mere whiff of it makes you a total sell-out is also not true. He didn't make merch because he had no interest, he actively spoke against it.

>>94436610
Because fucking rednecks where the 90s edge lords, now post the one where hes pissing on the cross

Watterson never said himself that anybody who licensed their characters for merchandise was a sellout, or that he never wanted to be one. He doesn't think he's a saint for doing it, and anybody who romanticizes it or the comic by saying he is, is retarded.

>>94437666
And whatever this dumbass is trying to say.

>>94436837
Never happened. They're just bootlegs.

>>94436610
>Owing to spite or just a foul mood, have you ever peeled one of those stupid Calvin stickers off of a pickup truck?
>I figure that, long after the strip is forgotten, those decals are my ticket to immortality.

>>94436888
He just didn't want his strip associated with life insurance like a certain other comic.

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A better question might be is how was Spencer and Locke allowed to come out?

>>94436780
>It's tragic that we have no merchandise as fans

If it means that Calvin will never get a shitty funko than the man is a saint.

>>94437536
Oh my god they're forming a Carebareos!

>>94436610
He sold his comics what more do you want. Some shitty 3D Hobbes movie or plushie?

Pretty sure back then you could not retain full creative control or rights even if you wanted to, which he of course didn't. Good.

>>94436610
Calvin is the original Pepe

>>94438248
Because he didn't invent imaginary friends. Or else Arthur should be sued for DW and her lesbian buddy

>>94436985
>>I don't get it either. JK Rowling managed to make a shit ton of money off of her creation while still retaining full creative rights.
JK Rowling is weird though
>Harry Potter would refuse to Boycott Israel!
>Politician Jeremy Corbyn is NOT a gay Wizard!

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>>94438734
Look there's pastiche, and then there's this.

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>>94439209
And then there's some pages and you're just like...

I was always under the impression Watterson had a specific vision for calvin and hobbes and he realized it as a comic. He didn't want it to be merched out or licensed for a cartoon or anything but through his choice of medium. Doesn't feel like he's fighting being a sellout but more that he was content with what he'd done and only disappointed that the medium was changing and his work wouldn't fit to the mold.

>>94436888
The danger is you can become a shithead like Notch did with his 2Bil. The Dwarf Fortress guy could make mad cash with his game being made by Nintendo for example but he gets donations to live on and devotes his time to coding and has become some kind of game god with 'Boatmurdered' engraved on gamer brains AFAIK he is a great guy still.
Notch is an asshole in a multi million bux house who gets into twitter fights and hasn't made shit.

>>94439816
>Notch is an asshole in a multi million bux house who gets into twitter fights and hasn't made shit.
Really?
The only fights I've herd about are the ones he has with major SJW figure heads.

>>94436668
>doesn't actively protect his copyright.

Not true. The syndicate protects his copyright but we're talking primarily on printed material and similar things (also animation, which is why some of the 'motion picture' stuff was taken down).

>>94436951

He didn't just - but it's 'made up' nonetheless.

>>94437896
>>>94436837
>Never happened. They're just bootlegs.

This is correct

>>94438248
Fair use allows people some latitude - it really depends on how the rights holders wants to enforce their rights. THIS is why you'll never see a Luke Skywalker comic book, novel or similar that's not authorized merchandise. Even before the Mouse House bought it, Lucas was overzealous. Even though almost the entirety of the original trilogy riffs on numerous other sources, Lucas and now Disney will die before they allow the copyrights to go to just 'anyone.'

>>94439209
>>94439351

The parody of the Captain America Civil War porn movies or the Batman v Superman movies didn't get lawyer letters from Disney/Marvel or Warner Brothers/DC because the law gives some latitude. If Spencer and Locke was a daily strip, it might have gotten some stuff.

There's now talk of making it into a movie. Again, if Watterson really wanted to stop it, he probably could. It's more a matter that the first issue (being Action Lab) came in under the radar - but the movie news might get some attention.

If Calvin was Disney or WB or even idiots like Fox, you can bet your ass that those Spencer and Locke #1 would now be valuable because the publisher was forced to cancel and recall.

>>94439816
So basically you're asshurt that someone turned their creation into a livliehood but did it in a way you don't like. Anon, that sounds like a personal problem and people with sense would tell you "tough shit"

>>94438279
COMING SOON TO A STORE NEAR YOU IS THE CALVIN PISS FUNKO

>>94436717
>merchandise is selling out
Durrrr

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>waah, Garfield was not good anymore when his brand overshadowed the quality of the comics!
>waah, Watterson thinks that making money with your creation in a way other than selling your comic books makes him a sellout!

>>94438248
>>94439209
>>94439351
I don't see what the problem is. Are you somehow under the impression that nobody should ever be allowed to do anything that resembles Calvin and Hobbes ever again? Yes, it's obviously inspired by it, so what?

>>94441317
>waaah, it's too hot in the desert and I'm dying of heatstroke and dehydration!
>waaah, it's too cold in the arctic and I'm literally freezing to death!

Who woulda thought two extremes are bad, despite being opposites?

>>94441648
I'm trying to make a point that Watterson was just trying to avoid the Garfield syndrome and keep the comic pure to it's heart.

>>94441640

no, it's absolutely ok for someone to try and create something like calvin and hobbes again, even just in terms of similar art style. The problem is that Calvin and Hobbes has such status and such a ( well earned) reputation that whatever is made will inevitably draw comparisons and given how great calvin and hobbes is, those comparisons will probably just make the other comic look worse for not living up to the bar C&H set.

Basically, aping the style of a great work of art can sometimes make an ok piece of art look worse because it isn't as good as the original.

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>>94436780
>>94437666

>>94440023

regardless of your opinion on his twitter fights notch is genuinely miserable and has said so multiple times

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/notch-net-worth-isolation-twitter-outburst

>>94441875

>billionaire getting into fights on twitter instead of enjoying his immense wealth

i don't understand, how dead inside do you have to be to have enough money to do anything you could possibly think of but still choose to get into internet fights instead?

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>>94441969

*shrug*. He truly is a child of the internet, I guess,

>>94440438
Are you a wizard? My god! You read my mind

>>94441969
Asshurt from poorfags like me is that he buys this megahouse with candy dispensers and burns through his money in a way that would leave most people out on the street. Buy a house? Sure, get your toys and car, stock that pantry and get a nice tv. Pay for bills for a decade and just fucking relax without worrying about getting up for a shit job. 70Mil house and parties all the time is bullshit. Jealous I am indeed.

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>>94438248
I want to fuck that pussy.

>>94436610
The picture was everywhere on merchandise in order to make girls jealous because they can't do what the guy in the picture is doing.

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I legit see this on the back of a windshield of an f-350 every time I go to the neighborhood Dollar General

>>94436610
Its weird because its really uncharacteristic of Calvin in the first place, he isn't a Bart Simpson.

>>94447082
>Its weird because its really

http://www.its-not-its.info/

>>94436780
Stinky was wrong.

>>94439351
F

>>94438248
This was too much of a guilty pleasure for me. If somebody pitched a book as "C&H but edgy" to me I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole, but I ended up actually really liking it.

>>94436610
I think we had a thread about this not too long ago.
triviahappy.com/articles/the-tasteless-history-of-the-peeing-calvin-decal

>>94436610
So white trash can have a logo of a kid pissing on the rival sports team.

>>94436888
There's making money off your creation and slapping your creation on literally anything imaginable solely to make a shit ton of money through no creative effort.

He sold his comic and that's all he wanted. He didn't want his characters dancing in a carwash commercial

what's hilarious the same people who are pissed we don't have C&H merchandise are the same people who would be bitching the merchandise isn't capturing Calvin's spirit or the cartoon isn't following the comics close enough if Watterson did allow stuff.

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>>94436941

>>94451040
>are the same people
Stop this shit. None of you people ever have any proof when you make claims like this.

>>94441317
>>waah Watterson never said anything like that. He said that he didn't want to commercialize his creation in this one particular instance for personal reasons!

Has someone made an endless spiraling version of Calvin peeing on himself peeing on himseIf peeing on himself etc... Yet?

>>94452799
Nope.

>>94437666
>He is craven and spineless.

wrong.

>>94436951
Yes i did. I wish there was an interesting story here but it is basically what happened to the simpsons as well.

I wish Watterson would approve an animated special at least but I am guessing there would be no way to put the genie back in the bottle.

>>94449733
Stinky was different. His family would've benefited from his success, and they were very low on the income ladder, uet he felt it wouldn't be right to sign the contract.

Maybe the agent wasn't the most trustworthy guy, but why didn't he get offers from other agents?

t. someone that never watched an episode of Hey Arnold! and only knows specific plot points second-handed from the internet