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August 21, 2010 10:34 AM

If you like Star Wars and Calvin and Hobbes, you'll love this shirt. If you don't like Star Wars and Calvin and Hobbes, seek therapy immediately.
posted by cerebus19 (23 comments total)

I dunno, given the great lengths Bill Watterson went to trying to prevent Calvin and Hobbes products from making it to market, I find it kind of difficult to love this. Clever, certainly, but really, it just makes me flash back to the pain I felt 15 years ago when I learned the strip was going to end, and regret that my C+H books are all back at home.
posted by silby at 10:37 AM on August 21, 2010 [5 favorites]

I wonder if this is gonna fall under the "Yell At People Who Sell Calvin and Hobbes Stuff" rule or the "Enjoy Pop Culture Mashups" rule.
posted by nebulawindphone at 10:37 AM on August 21, 2010 [3 favorites]

This is more the kind of thing that you should post to your Facebook page than to Metafilter.
posted by amro at 10:39 AM on August 21, 2010 [17 favorites]

Pepsi Blue Harvest.
posted by ColdChef at 10:41 AM on August 21, 2010 [5 favorites]

That drawing is just like Calvin and Hobbes, only without the craft.
posted by "Elbows" O'Donoghue at 10:41 AM on August 21, 2010 [2 favorites]

I'm not going to lie, that's a cool shirt.
posted by ColdChef at 10:43 AM on August 21, 2010

That's adorable, but I don't know that it's really a great post for the blue.
posted by Caduceus at 10:44 AM on August 21, 2010

Yeah, it's a great shirt, but it's not strong enough to carry an FPP by itself. I mean, people complain about SLYTs, but this is even less. It's basically a single-link picture (that happens to be for sale on a shirt).
posted by The Winsome Parker Lewis at 10:45 AM on August 21, 2010

I wonder if this is gonna fall under the "Yell At People Who Sell Calvin and Hobbes Stuff" rule

I'm going outside for a smoke.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 10:45 AM on August 21, 2010

silby are you reading the words from the screen inside my head exactly?
posted by The Lady is a designer at 10:50 AM on August 21, 2010

Cute shirt, sketchy post.
posted by theora55 at 10:54 AM on August 21, 2010

How about one with Han peeing on the Death Star?
posted by orme at 10:55 AM on August 21, 2010 [5 favorites]

I dunno, given the great lengths Bill Watterson went to trying to prevent Calvin and Hobbes products from making it to market, I find it kind of difficult to love this.

Parody of Waterson is fine. On something like this it isn't about what the original artist thinks. I find this an acceptable use of the commons.
posted by cjorgensen at 10:56 AM on August 21, 2010

This isn't parody, it's borrowed interest.
posted by scrowdid at 11:02 AM on August 21, 2010 [1 favorite]

Awkward that they use Calvin & Hobbes, really a fairly poor drawing all things considered, but most of all: GYOFB.
posted by paisley henosis at 11:04 AM on August 21, 2010

Sketchy shirt, cute post.
posted by mazola at 11:09 AM on August 21, 2010

Parody of Waterson is fine. On something like this it isn't about what the original artist thinks. I find this an acceptable use of the commons.

I'm not saying it's dubiously ethical or legal, I just don't love it, for the aforementioned reasons.

Also Lucasfilm probably would take more legal umbrage with this shirt than Watterson would, given which set of characters are actually being traded on, as opposed to styles being parodied, but I'm not an IP lawyer nor do I care to play one on the internet so whatever.
posted by silby at 11:12 AM on August 21, 2010 [1 favorite]

in b4
posted by Trochanter at 11:12 AM on August 21, 2010

Cool shirt. I like those things.

That's pretty much all I've got here.
posted by codacorolla at 11:13 AM on August 21, 2010

Marketable Product is Marketable.
posted by Aquaman at 11:15 AM on August 21, 2010

If you don't like Star Wars and Calvin and Hobbes, seek therapy immediately

I like Calvin and Hobbes and am ambivalent about Star Wars, but this is the sort of shit-on-your-face sentiment that makes me want to hate them both with a passion.
posted by setanor at 11:20 AM on August 21, 2010 [3 favorites]

This isn't parody, it's borrowed interest.

I'm being totally sincere when I say that I'd like to know what this means.
posted by shmegegge at 11:20 AM on August 21, 2010

I wonder if this is gonna fall under the "Yell At People Who Sell Calvin and Hobbes Stuff" rule or the "Enjoy Pop Culture Mashups" rule.

Is there a rule about Enjoy Pop Culture Mashups? Is that sort of like Enjoy Prepared Food? You do or you don't, people, figure it out!
posted by setanor at 11:21 AM on August 21, 2010