Ever since Calvin & Hobbes disappeared from newspapers in 1995, the great Bill Watterson has been missed by many fans of his work. However, as you can see here, the man is back with a funny poster for the serious documentary about the dying print newspaper comics business, STRIPPED, now available for pre-order (ironically) on iTunes. Me, I’ll hold out for a Blu-Ray/DVD release because I like owning my movies and holding them in my grubby little hands. I hope people watching this now on their small screens can appreciate what’s being said and maybe think about how they consume their media in the future. But of course, you can’t beat convenience and enforced evolution colliding as they squeeze out some who formerly made a decent living doing what they love. Ah, my old fogey card is showing here, I guess…
"DESTROY ALL FANBOYS!" 
I am so on this. I am such a fan of Calvin & Hobbes. I probably contributed to the problem, because I stopped reading the comics the day after he retired.
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It seems to be a regional thing as well. Some papers carry a few pages of strips, some carry one page and Sundays USED to be special all across the country. Here in NYC we have two papers that carry strips. One is the gawdawful NY Post with some lame-ass comics (well, two OK ones and the rest crap including a right-wing nonsense strip that’s not anything you’d want a kid to read because it’s SO one-sided (it’s a poor, dead man’s Doonesbury but nowhere near as clever) and the Daily News which at least runs color strips every day. Some of them are terrible rip offs of The Far Side, but once in a while there’s something amusing. Still, Calvin & Hobbes, Bloom County and some others are SORELY missed!
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