Today’s date is May the 4th, which has come to be universally recognized as Star Wars Day. And in celebration of this international holiday, many a familiar figure has taken to social media to shout out the 42-year-old space saga.
Just take this new tweet from Mark Hamill for example, who has a special message for all his followers:
May The Fourth Bewitch You
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) May 4, 2019
Hamill is set to reprise his role as Luke in the upcoming Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Another star that you can expect to see return – albeit under a thick layer of Wookiee fur – is Joonas Soutamo, who shared a Calvin and Hobbes-style cartoon on Thursday that features one of the saga’s most cherished double acts:
Love Li'l Chewie & Han Solo in this Calvin & Hobbes style mashup by Lucasfilm, Marvel, & Disney artist @briankesinger It's almost the most important day...
Just take this new tweet from Mark Hamill for example, who has a special message for all his followers:
May The Fourth Bewitch You
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) May 4, 2019
Hamill is set to reprise his role as Luke in the upcoming Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Another star that you can expect to see return – albeit under a thick layer of Wookiee fur – is Joonas Soutamo, who shared a Calvin and Hobbes-style cartoon on Thursday that features one of the saga’s most cherished double acts:
Love Li'l Chewie & Han Solo in this Calvin & Hobbes style mashup by Lucasfilm, Marvel, & Disney artist @briankesinger It's almost the most important day...
- 5/4/2019
- by David Pountain
- We Got This Covered
Above you'll find the first comic that artist Bill Watterson has created since he retired Calvin & Hobbes in 1995. It is actually a poster that he created for a documentary film called Stripped. The doc explores the creation of these comic strips and their transition from newspapers to digital. It features interviews with the creators of Garfield, Cathy, For Better or For Worse, The Oatmeal, Penny Arcade, and even Watterson himself, who rarely gives interviews.
Watterson spoke to The Washington Post and explained the poster he did for the movie:
“Given the movie’s title and the fact that there are few things funnier than human nudity, the idea popped into my head largely intact. The film is a big valentine to comics, so I tried to do something really cartoon-y. I had thought of having it colored with off-registered printing dots like newspaper comics, but Dave asked if I’d paint it instead,...
Watterson spoke to The Washington Post and explained the poster he did for the movie:
“Given the movie’s title and the fact that there are few things funnier than human nudity, the idea popped into my head largely intact. The film is a big valentine to comics, so I tried to do something really cartoon-y. I had thought of having it colored with off-registered printing dots like newspaper comics, but Dave asked if I’d paint it instead,...
- 2/27/2014
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Well here's something we're pretty sure Calvin won't be peeing on.
Bill Watterson basically yelled "peace out!," dropped his pen like rappers drop microphones and ducked out of the public eye after changing the world of comic strips with "Calvin and Hobbes." He's been legendarily protective of the property, too, which is why we haven't seen some animation studio's adaptation with Justin Bieber voicing Calvin (or whatever, which would have probably been even worse than that). We're positive that those truck stop stickers featuring Calvin peeing on basically everything aren't authorized.
Watterson was included in Time Magazine's Top 10 Most Reclusive Celebrities list, so you know that dude ain't coming out of hiding.
Director Joel Allen Schroeder and his pals raised close to $100,000 on Kickstarter about four years ago for a documentary (which he began work on way back in 2007) that's less about Watterson and more about the impact of the...
Bill Watterson basically yelled "peace out!," dropped his pen like rappers drop microphones and ducked out of the public eye after changing the world of comic strips with "Calvin and Hobbes." He's been legendarily protective of the property, too, which is why we haven't seen some animation studio's adaptation with Justin Bieber voicing Calvin (or whatever, which would have probably been even worse than that). We're positive that those truck stop stickers featuring Calvin peeing on basically everything aren't authorized.
Watterson was included in Time Magazine's Top 10 Most Reclusive Celebrities list, so you know that dude ain't coming out of hiding.
Director Joel Allen Schroeder and his pals raised close to $100,000 on Kickstarter about four years ago for a documentary (which he began work on way back in 2007) that's less about Watterson and more about the impact of the...
- 7/17/2013
- by Ryan J Downey
- NextMovie
Director Joel Allen Schroeder started working on a Calvin and Hobbes documentary in 2007 and raised almost $100,000 on Kickstarter in 2009. The result, Dear Mr. Watterson, is finally scheduled for a November 15 release. The trailer reveals a movie that doesn't chase after the comic strip's famously elusive creator, but rather interviews a wide spectrum of its fans: from Robot Chicken's Seth Green to FoxTrot's Bill Amend.
- 7/16/2013
- by Lindsey Weber
- Vulture
To get an idea of how long Dear Mr. Watterson has been in the works, consider that its creator Joel Schroeder posted a teaser trailer for it three years ago. And that was years after he’d started working on it. Fortunately, it was the exact kind of thing that Kickstarter was built for, and after 2,083 backers representing over $120,000 chipped in, the film is finished. Now, according to Variety, the “Calvin & Hobbes” documentary will see theaters and VOD on November 15th. As you can imagine, it chronicles Bill Watterson’s monumental creation and its influence — specifically by featuring conversations with the likes of Berkeley Breathed (“Bloom County”), Bill Amend (“Foxtrot”), Seth Green and more. Check out the teaser trailer after the jump: Awesome, awesome, awesome news. Times a million. I don’t even know what else to say. Short of getting a “Calvin & Hobbes” movie from Watterson himself, which is obviously never going to happen, a...
- 7/16/2013
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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