Inspired by another thread: Calvin stickers...

I just hate it when I see the stickers of Calvin (from Calvin and Hobbes) pissing on things or kneeling down to pray in front of a big cross or any number of the other Calvin stickers I've seen.

First of all, Calvin was a cheeky little boy but he wasn't evil. He was just precocious. Showing him peeing on things, or even worse, his image being hijacked by the right just sickens me.

When the comic was actually running Bill Watterson turned down all sorts of deals on merchandising because he didn't want to cheapen the image. He stopped doing it because he didn't want to run it in to the ground.

Sick stuff man! Sick sick sick!

Recently I was walking down the street and saw a Calvin pissing sticker, and within a block I saw Calvin praying, so I couldn't help but imagine a "Calvin pissing on the cross" sticker.

It's embarassing to say, but this is what happens where I live.

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NAACP flap resurfaces with Yow T-shirt
3-18-04
By MARK BINKER, Staff Writer
News & Record

To hear Commissioner Billy Yow tell it, it's just a shirt.

In fact, he said, it's a shirt he's been hawking quietly for eight months now that just happens to feature a character (Calvin) urinating on the letters "NAACP," a reference to the national civil rights group.

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The shirt uses the stars- and-bars design of the Confederate battle emblem, which has been labeled by some, including chapters of the NAACP, as a racist emblem. It is touted by others as a symbol of Southern pride and heritage.

Yow called the design "a symbol of freedom."

The shirt, Yow said, was an exercise of free speech originally prompted by his 2003 battle with local NAACP chapters that led to calls for his removal.

"I'm still not over it," Yow said of the fight. "God forgives; Billy Yow don't."

more: http://www.news-record.com/news/government/yow_031804.htm

I'm a little surprised that Watterson hasn't sued or something.

the 21st century.

Waving that is saying that you support secession. Isn't that true treason?

here: billyyow@bellsouth.net

and unlicensed

It is a F-ing shame.