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  • The reclusive Calvin and Hobbes creator has written a fable for adults called The Mysteries. Support Renegade Cut on Patreon: / renegadecut
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  • @renegadecut9875
    @renegadecut9875  10 місяців тому +626

    Thank you for being kind about this. I was concerned about making this video and continued to second-guess releasing it right up until last night. I've only had one completely out-of-bounds reply. That's pretty much as good as I can expect. I genuinely appreciate it.

    • @chadatchison145
      @chadatchison145 10 місяців тому +16

      And we appreciate you, genuinely.

    • @Uberspanker
      @Uberspanker 10 місяців тому +13

      Stellar work as always, comrade. If Hobbes was right, I'll see you in Pittsburgh. Be well.

    • @theeviljames
      @theeviljames 10 місяців тому +9

      I'm surprised you were reticent, I really enjoyed it, as I enjoy all your writing

    • @AbbeyStB
      @AbbeyStB 10 місяців тому +22

      I've watched a lot of your work, but rarely comment... you made me tear up, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Thank you for this.

    • @jessicaluchesi
      @jessicaluchesi 10 місяців тому +6

      Thank you. This is precious and in a moment I think we all need to hear of good things.

  • @elemaioh
    @elemaioh 10 місяців тому +814

    I'll always remember Hobbes' line "If people could put rainbows in zoos, they'd do it." I don't know if there's a better or simpler expression of just ecological philosophy.

    • @slipperynickels
      @slipperynickels 10 місяців тому +57

      that line has been seared in my mind since childhood. also, “i got my wish,” after calvin wished for a million billion dollars but hobbes just wished for a sandwich.

    • @david21216
      @david21216 10 місяців тому +44

      For me I want the strip where Calvin yells "I'm significant!" under the night sky followed by "screamed the tiny dust speck"

    • @mr.x2567
      @mr.x2567 10 місяців тому +7

      Yep. I’ve always known humans would never truly accept me, because unlike them, I’m not a complete monster. Probably why Calvin and Hobbes resonated with me.

    • @emilyrln
      @emilyrln 10 місяців тому +8

      @@david21216I was thinking of a similar one! Calvin and Hobbes are standing under the stars, remarking on his small and insignificant they are in the infinite blackness. There's a silent panel of them against the night sky, and then Calvin frowns and says, "Let's go in and turn on all the lights."

    • @evyatarshafran5017
      @evyatarshafran5017 10 місяців тому

      I have that comic tattooed 😊

  • @JKenjiLopezAlt
    @JKenjiLopezAlt 10 місяців тому +399

    Thanks for this video Leon, from a fellow middle-aged man with undiagnosed issues that made school work and childhood socialization challenging. Like you, I related to Calvin’s escapist outlook and the feeling that my brain/personality was always being reigned in by the rest of the world. Only as an adult have I started working through that all. My ingrained lizard brain reaction to other people’s problems is to assume they’re my fault, and my reaction to problems facing me is to just work harder and get through them myself (typically with varying degrees of failure) rather than admit I need help. “Surely the judgment from those who see that I have problems will be worse than the problems themselves,” is what my brain tells me.
    It’s a hard feeling to get over.
    Thanks for always being thoughtful and open. Love your work.

    • @elevenseven-yq4vu
      @elevenseven-yq4vu 10 місяців тому +14

      "The judgment from those that see I have problems will be harder to deal with than the problems themselves" is basically how boys in my generation were raised. And to be honest, I haven't seen much change since, not for the better.

    • @bulletproofblouse
      @bulletproofblouse 10 місяців тому +5

      I love your videos too, Ken.

    • @Scarlet_Noir666
      @Scarlet_Noir666 10 місяців тому +6

      Seeing you here, Ken, made me do a little squee (probably more than little, since my partner heard me in the other room). Wait, what?!? My absolute favorite cooking go-to author & creator is commenting on my absolute favorite anarchist creatir on theory/praxis & media analysis?!?! This makes my heart melt more than the first time I heard you sign off "guys, gals, and non-binary pals." This Trans-parent cooks with her kids as often as humanly possible, and I am grateful for what you put out into the world. (same goes for you Leon, but that shouldn't be news).
      Be safe, stay loving, but be brutal.

    • @thebepis712
      @thebepis712 10 місяців тому +2

      Thanks for putting this on my radar, love when you share other creators. Always discovering new stuff

    • @ashannaredwolf8485
      @ashannaredwolf8485 10 місяців тому

      My husband (cis-m) and I (cis-f) are both 40 and neurodivergent, and we've spoken at length about our experiences of adults' reactions to our escapist behaviors, how they were similar and where they differed, but the line "the feeling that my brain/personality was always being reigned in by the rest of the world" hit home with the both of us. That's exactly what it felt like constantly. Thank you for sharing your story.

  • @wristofkings
    @wristofkings 10 місяців тому +335

    Finally being told "it's not your fault" after a lifetime of believing you are the problem is a powerful and necessary message to impart to kids who had to grow up too early. Thanks Leon

    • @jam-trousers
      @jam-trousers 10 місяців тому +9

      Says it all.

    • @Cornshot1
      @Cornshot1 10 місяців тому +8

      Gosh that line had me sobbing. Don't realize how much you internalize that feeling growing up undiagnosed.

  • @samfivedot
    @samfivedot 10 місяців тому +122

    One thing I've noticed is that Calvin tends to become Spaceman Spiff when he comes into conflict with some kind of rule or expectation that has been set for him, which is why it happens so frequently when he's at school. Calvin's own worldview is incompatible with rules, so it makes sense that he'd liken his school life to being an astronaut trapped on an alien planet.

  • @meaninglez100
    @meaninglez100 10 місяців тому +97

    "And the Mysteries lived happily ever after." Is such an oddly comforting sentence to me

    • @shanefoster2132
      @shanefoster2132 10 місяців тому +10

      it's hauntingly beautiful. they lived happily ever after only this time the they wasn't one of us.

  • @lava_submersible2362
    @lava_submersible2362 10 місяців тому +167

    This is beautiful. Its not our fault. Im crying along with Leon at a Barnes and Noble. I'm camping and took too much popcorn in my excitement and I'm struck by an adult family member and called selfish, greedy. Im laying in bed at noon typing into a youtube comments section wishing I could still fly away to another world whenever things got scary or confusing or too much.
    Thank you Leon. This is one of my favorites

    • @Leah-vr7di
      @Leah-vr7di 10 місяців тому +11

      i hope that popcorn was amazing. you deserve it!

    • @erynies7682
      @erynies7682 10 місяців тому +8

      I hope things get better for you.

  • @grahamistearingup
    @grahamistearingup 10 місяців тому +20

    “It’s beautiful. You’ll love it.”
    i actually started crying. thanks so much for this.

  • @theotherther1
    @theotherther1 10 місяців тому +34

    Calvin was my hero as a kid. I used my imagination for many of the same coping mechanisms he uses it for. His parents were great too; in one strip, his dad says, "I didn't think I'd be in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I knew the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed."

  • @Akumeitakai
    @Akumeitakai 10 місяців тому +18

    "I did not have imaginary friends as a child. I had imaginary worlds."
    I thought ... I was the only one. I used to imagine that if I turned the corner on the block, just the right way, I would end up somewhere I actually wanted to be. I'm somewhat obsessed with 'Other Worlds' as a way to travel since I can't afford to do that in reality. I don't think anyone else has ever touched on that the way you did today ... I feel seen. Recognized. I hope this doesn't com across as parasocial. I like your video.

  • @rahcollier7006
    @rahcollier7006 10 місяців тому +64

    I'm crying a little. I'm also a Calvin and Hobbes kid.
    The fan-made comic about the pills strikes me as a little on the shrill side. On one hand, medication can be a big help to a neurodivergent person trying to make their way in a world that isn't designed with them in mind. It can also come with serious side effects, or the primary effects can go too far. There's a difference between getting a boost and getting overwritten.
    Definitely getting the book. Thanks for telling me about it!

    • @Bl4ckDr4co
      @Bl4ckDr4co 10 місяців тому +15

      It's a complicated issue. I know people who were medicated as children for various issues and it destroyed their lives, and I know people that are only alive today because they received medication.
      I think the main issue is the medical industry and how not everyone has equal access to appropriate care. Some doctors are devoted to finding the best solution for their patients no matter how long it takes, and others are in it for the money and kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies.
      A person's wellbeing shouldn't be profit driven.

    • @rangda_prime
      @rangda_prime 10 місяців тому +4

      As an undiagnosed child, who became an undiagnosed adult, struggling in isolation without understanding that my struggle was not what most people did, until I crashed at age 40, that comic is way too simplistic. I needed so much support and part of my journey post diagnosis has been a process of mourning for everything I never was able to do.

  • @beebo7071
    @beebo7071 10 місяців тому +70

    I remember reading Calvin and Hobbes in the corner of the library. A very important part of my childhood

  • @TalkingVidya
    @TalkingVidya 10 місяців тому +10

    "I don't have imaginary friends, I have imaginary *Worlds*"
    Thank you, I needed that

  • @JadeStone00
    @JadeStone00 10 місяців тому +266

    Born in 1979, diagnosed with ADHD in 2015.
    Solidarity, comrades.

    • @rahcollier7006
      @rahcollier7006 10 місяців тому +22

      1992, 2011. The autism spectrum diagnosis came a bit later.

    • @oasntet
      @oasntet 10 місяців тому +17

      1977, still undiagnosed but became acutely aware in the last decade. I don't have enough reliable executive function to find a PCP, get a proper diagnosis, and then battle with the American health insurance system to actually receive treatment. If it were a task with a deadline...

    • @jam-trousers
      @jam-trousers 10 місяців тому +14

      1964, 2023. 59 years old, lost a decent job over it, nearly lost my partner over it.
      It galls me that people say it’s a superpower. I’d happily not have it at all.

    • @elevenseven-yq4vu
      @elevenseven-yq4vu 10 місяців тому +9

      * 1979, never officially diagnosed, but myself and everyone with an understanding of AD(H)D and having been around me for long enough knows. Getting an official diagnosis as an adult who managed to cope for seemingly "too" long is next to impossible in my country, and I have other issues to deal with, so I gave up on ever getting proper ADHD treatment.

    • @mutterboutasaurus235
      @mutterboutasaurus235 10 місяців тому +10

      1988, 2015-ish.
      What hurts the most is that so many of my lifelong struggles can be linked back to my ADHD - and most of these I've only learned about in the past year or two. Chronic sleeping issues, hyper fixation, poor executive function, social rejection sensitivity. All ADHD baybeeee.

  • @Ozziw162
    @Ozziw162 10 місяців тому +12

    I got diagnosed as autistic early this year. Today, my son was.
    And while I did fine growing up, undiagnosed, I’ve always felt I was different. I had a hard time with things, in a way I could not easily describe. Socially, knowing what was expected of me, how to present myself, and so on.
    I wish I knew, I wish my parents knew and I wish my teachers knew. Not because I was in need of constant help, but to put words on my thoughts and sometimes have the tools to give me a nudge in the right direction. To know I wasn’t just “weird” or “wrong”, as it felt like I was.
    I wish my son, with our knowledge, won’t have to grow up feeling “weird” or “wrong”. He’s my wonderful autistic son. And I'm ready to give him informed nudges and help him ask for the tools I missed when I grew up.

  • @Mykiezee13
    @Mykiezee13 10 місяців тому +7

    The strip with Calvin hammering nails into the table is essentially the wallpaper in my brain, just ever-present in there. "Is this some sort of trick question?" She didn't ask him 'Why?' even if that's what she wanted to know, so he is only responding to the question she asked which he knows has such a clear answer that it must be a trick...

  • @inappropriatejohnson
    @inappropriatejohnson 10 місяців тому +39

    "You'll be sorry when I put you in a home"
    -Calvin to parents. I still laugh at that.

    • @elevenseven-yq4vu
      @elevenseven-yq4vu 10 місяців тому +8

      It is very comforting that we live in a world where children can have their come uppance upon their parents if they dare to.

    • @bobbyologun1517
      @bobbyologun1517 10 місяців тому +12

      *wearing his dads glasses* calvin! go do something you hate! being miserable builds character!

  • @HoneycuttVideos
    @HoneycuttVideos 10 місяців тому +5

    Calvin and Hobbes was one of the seminal works of art in my childhood, and I saw so much of myself in him. I reread much of it every couple of years as a way to check in on how I’ve changed as a person and how what I see of myself in him has changed with that. All that to say that I loved hearing you sympathise with his challenges and vocalise how what feels to children like the end of the world becomes smaller in scale as we grow up. Cheers 😎

  • @paultjackson2242
    @paultjackson2242 7 місяців тому +2

    Every part of this video was comforting and nostalgic. 😭🙂 I read C&H as a child too. I just gifted my best friend (who also grew up on C&H too) an original copy of the “The Days Are Just Packed” collection. Thank you for this video!

  • @FallopianDismay
    @FallopianDismay 10 місяців тому +110

    Beautiful essay! When you said you didn't have an imaginary friend as a child, you had imaginary worlds that blew my mind. I suddenly have a much deeper and visceral understanding of my partner! As a previous imaginary friend haver I kinda never thought about the world creation as the main part of imagination play. Maybe this insight will open up opportunities for us to play more and better together.
    Thank you! Your work spreads love. 💕

    • @famfamfam5782
      @famfamfam5782 10 місяців тому +4

      Same about the imaginary worlds, as that was me

  • @brennenderopa
    @brennenderopa 10 місяців тому +2

    I usually watch your videos at work. Did not need to cry at work today. Thank you for bringing my attention to this book.

  • @KeeganYeehaw
    @KeeganYeehaw 10 місяців тому +5

    Thank you for this video. I was unaware of the book's release due to not using social media often and living in a rural enough area where books aren't locally promoted. It means a lot to hear similar experiences, I'm younger than the first wave of Calvin and Hobbes fans but discovered it through compiled collections at the thrift store. I saw myself a lot in Calvin, particularly his escapism and worldview that didn't align with societal expectations. Went on to get "diagnosed" with autism at 14, but we didn't have the money to afford diagnosis paperwork that was required to get accommodations at school or work. My younger sister is currently in grade school and suffers from a lot of the same issues due to her adhd which was thankfully diagnosed young, but in many cases that diagnosis doesn't actually mean much on a societal level. I gifted her my CaH collections recently, hoping it'll do her some good in the same way it did me.

  • @flatfacedcat
    @flatfacedcat 10 місяців тому +47

    I'm glad this book exists, and that the same feeling that got me "through" depression is understood by others. I know I'll always have depression, but living with it became so much easier after one day when I took a long walk outside after a particularly bad meltdown. Literally went to go touch grass. Observed the vastness of the sky, the shapes of the clouds, the sway of the trees in the wind. Down to the ants on the concrete and the tiniest flowers that reached from the cracks between. And I thought, "Wow! I really don't matter at all! Nothing out here cares about me." And it was the most freeing thought ever. I felt like so much weight was suddenly off my shoulders.

    • @johnoglesby-vw7ck
      @johnoglesby-vw7ck 10 місяців тому +4

      Similar experience here...although sometimes have to remind myself🙂

    • @tracytaylor5115
      @tracytaylor5115 10 місяців тому +2

      This realization has helped me to face my impending death from cancer.

    • @xHarpyx
      @xHarpyx 9 місяців тому

      This. Soooo much this. I struggle with depression/anxiety which went untreated for years. I was able to manage it better after reading Eckert Tolle's the Power of Now but that only got me so far. Especially when the dark is deep and there's not a speck of light to latch on to. You all are definitely not alone. I recommend checking out Carlos Maza's video on Hopelessness. It's particularly good and even though the subject matter is dark, the overall concept - of understanding that nothing matters and everything is hopeless, yet we fight to make it another day - brings me comfort. I hope it does to you, as well.

    • @sanachanto
      @sanachanto 7 місяців тому

      You might like the film “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

  • @a.p.2356
    @a.p.2356 10 місяців тому +18

    This resonates pretty heavily with me. I was a catholic kid with ADHD that went undiagnosed and untreated well into adulthood. I was always imagining whole worlds to play in, both inside my head and out. I always struggled to sleep as a kid, mostly because my imagination just refused to stop. It was like a thing outside of me, a spigot with the handle broken off.
    Sometimes it would keep me awake with excitement; my bed would be a spaceship, and I traveled the stars; I would imagine life through the eyes of an ant, or a bird, or a tree; I planned how I would complete whatever ambitious project had gotten stuck in my head (usually something like trying to build my own airplane).
    Other times it would keep me awake with terror, gripping my amygdala with images of my house burning down; my family dying in an accident; the unshakable belief that the growing pain in my leg or the strange tweak in my neck was the first sign of an inescapable physiological timebomb, waiting to strike me down in my youth. I agonized over every mistake I had made, convinced something was terribly wrong with me. I rode tidal waves of emotion I could barely understand much less control. I second guessed my every decision, sometimes years after they'd been made, obsessed with the idea that I'd chosen incorrectly and that the path I'd picked ended inevitably in doom.
    I imagined death and saw an infinite expanse of blackness stretching out behind me and lurking out of sight somewhere ahead, the only certainty in an uncertain future. I pled with God, and the silence was deafening.
    And I read a lot of Calvin and Hobbes, because I saw myself in those pages. I surrounded myself in media which spoke to me, I think because while I didn't have the words to understand what people like me actually *were,* here was proof that they existed. That there were thriving, in fact.

    • @AJLikesCats
      @AJLikesCats 10 місяців тому +2

      Thanks for writing that out. I particularly feel, "I pled with God, and the silence was deafening." I wasn't Catholic, but not too far off from it. I have trouble remembering things, but I distinctly remember the day I stopped praying. The day I realized that the voice in my head was mine, only mine.

  • @jaymevaughn-linebarger5462
    @jaymevaughn-linebarger5462 10 місяців тому +141

    It resonated so strongly at the statement “I didn’t have imaginary friends - I had imaginary worlds”

  • @nicks8443
    @nicks8443 10 місяців тому +1

    Thank you, Leon. This was your most moving work to date. It was very healing for me.

  • @samu3lk5000
    @samu3lk5000 10 місяців тому +16

    Every single strip you referenced in this video is laser etched into my memory. My Calvin and Hobbes collections were basically falling apart from frequent use by the time those big hardcovers came out. Huge reason why I'm a cartoonist now.

  • @jabberw0k812
    @jabberw0k812 10 місяців тому +56

    I feel fortunate to have been a child like Calvin.

    • @neilwickman
      @neilwickman 10 місяців тому +4

      They're a handful but I see myself as the booster section for a larger rocket, with her at the top.

  • @xHarpyx
    @xHarpyx 9 місяців тому +1

    I totally felt, "I had imaginary worlds". I didn't know how to put it into words until now. I can't wait to get this book second hand.

  • @jessicaluchesi
    @jessicaluchesi 10 місяців тому +59

    Thank you for the beautiful essay... and the heads up on the book... I wouldn't have found out this soon otherwise

  • @brandongunnarson7483
    @brandongunnarson7483 7 місяців тому

    Thank you for letting me know about the Mysteries. My wife bought it for me for Christmas and I finally read it tonight after she went out of town. It's a beautiful book

  • @pipette4593
    @pipette4593 10 місяців тому +33

    I still walk miles a day thinking about my imaginary worlds. It was nice to hear that I'm not alone.

    • @ahouyearno
      @ahouyearno 10 місяців тому +1

      Same. I walked circles on the schoolyard lost in my worlds

  • @YOSSARIAN313
    @YOSSARIAN313 10 місяців тому +29

    I had a similar problem to calvin i used to think i was a picky eater just turned out my parents werent very good cooks

    • @shanefoster2132
      @shanefoster2132 10 місяців тому +9

      brussel sprouts: wonderful when baked or roasted but almost slimy when boiled.

    • @technopoptart
      @technopoptart 10 місяців тому +3

      yup, i was in my thirties when i learned that brussel sprouts were actually one of my favourite veggies. a crummy cook can really skew your perspective on foods

    • @zaqataq5146
      @zaqataq5146 10 місяців тому +1

      ​@@technopoptartBrussel sprouts were recultivated in the 90s to make them significantly less bitter than they used to be, so a lot of people who hated them as children are eating something that tastes completely different nowadays.

  • @literaterose6731
    @literaterose6731 10 місяців тому +22

    I saw the title of this video and rushed to look the book up before even watching it because I could hardly believe it was true, and this was the first I heard of it. Then I rushed back to watch, and oh, what a punch in the heart this has been…
    If I can scrape enough together, I’m going to get copies first for my son (43) and my grandson (18), for whom Calvin and Hobbes is more than just beloved but I would say necessary. Then I’ll save for one for myself. I’m going to buy them from the nerd emporium bookstore+ where my younger daughter is manager. And I know for certain my daughters will be gifted copies from other family members (possibly my son-we often care for each other in circles like that!). I haven’t been so stoked for a book in a long time.
    Finally, as someone who has had to figure out late in life my own neurodivergence, after decades of not understanding why so many things were “weird” and difficult for me, I can’t say enough how moved and grateful I am for your discussion of that here. Especially the mention of food-related abuse, a source of lifelong trauma for me (along with intersecting medication abuse) that I’ve almost never heard acknowledged. I actually broke down hearing that acknowledgment. Thank you. And thank you for letting us know about The Mysteries. Your videos are always ones I drop everything to watch as soon as I see there’s a new one, and I am never disappointed.

  • @cyrusmoghadassi9126
    @cyrusmoghadassi9126 4 місяці тому

    Thank you for this. And thank you for putting into words how profound Watterson’s work is. It means so much to me, and clearly to you.

  • @Mahi-ux1ne
    @Mahi-ux1ne 10 місяців тому +1

    This was beautiful, thank you.

  • @kennyholmes5196
    @kennyholmes5196 6 місяців тому +1

    One of the most important lessons I learned when growing up was how to properly attribute the source-of-blame for a given thing.
    This as someone with ADHD (actually diagnosed!) who struggles a little with staying focused on a given task unless it catches his attention.

  • @eslegnithton
    @eslegnithton 9 місяців тому

    This was my favorite of your videos thus far. Thank you!

  • @eobet
    @eobet 10 місяців тому +1

    Woooooow, I’ve never heard ANYONE else mention imaginary worlds before and I’d almost forgotten mine until you mentioned it. 🤯

  • @StrigoiTemplar
    @StrigoiTemplar 10 місяців тому

    I was not expecting a Deep Fried reference in one of your comics. Especially THAT one. But I greatly appreciated it.

  • @Jkelenqest
    @Jkelenqest 10 місяців тому +3

    Calvin and Hobbes was such an important part of my childhood; all of my books still sit on my shelf. I wasn't diagnosed until a couple years ago, in my mid-30s. This video made me cry and now I have to go buy a book that'll make me cry.

  • @PingMe23
    @PingMe23 10 місяців тому +5

    That was beautiful, man.

  • @JustAMagicDuck
    @JustAMagicDuck 10 місяців тому +14

    Oh man. I know it wasn’t the point but you gave me major Catholic upbringing flashbacks. I was never an altar server, though. I did join the choir in high school but it was basically where theater nerds went since we didn’t have a theater club.

    • @mercyjokes2d696
      @mercyjokes2d696 10 місяців тому +5

      Very similar happened with me. In 2005, I was engaged with a beautiful man who took his own life, was told roughly about this book I Know This Much is True and it helped my healing. It still hurts now but at least I can counter waves with a wisdom I wouldn't have found otherwise.

    • @mercyjokes2d696
      @mercyjokes2d696 10 місяців тому +4

      Yes, catholic school survived lol

  • @furansusan9090
    @furansusan9090 10 місяців тому +2

    I rarely comment on UA-cam as I just don't feel the necessity or have the will to do so but I want to say how great your video was. As a non native English speaker, I have never read Calvin and Hobbes but you really sold me on finding more about it.
    Plus, you made me want to buy a book, which is something that doesn't happen much anymore these days.
    Thank you.

  • @ArctheLadder
    @ArctheLadder 10 місяців тому +10

    I read Calvin and Hobbes as a kid, and the pure fantasy/feeling of escape were the things that got through. I never pondered the questions presented at times, just wasn't all that intelligent or insightful. I just remember being otherwise scared or anxious looking back on it, I can remember specific horrific moments or the bizarre context in which I was reading it these anthologies of the series. I never even thought to revisit thinking about Waterson, despite having a very cynical friend who seemed to really pick up on the ideas of the comic, at least perceivably. I appreciate you being vulnerable because I really, really think that sometimes it takes dropping pretense and just helping folks see ideas, but not only that, I think it helped make recent events, even just a personal bad day a little less painful.
    Thanks for the video.

  • @dullknifefactory
    @dullknifefactory 10 місяців тому +1

    "I didn't have imaginary friends as a kid..i had imaginary worlds"
    Bars

  • @Mcarsonisdumb
    @Mcarsonisdumb 10 місяців тому +10

    Your videos always, of course, have a deep underlying empathy, whether you're talking about film or about being a [well behaved upstanding member of society]. Its a quality I eagerly anticipate with everything you release. But something about this one is so strikingly vulnerable; I had to drop everything I was doing and sit with that. I suppose we all feel that way lately, huh? So old and yet scratched down raw and helpless like children.
    Beautiful work, take care of yourself man.

  • @daalimbe
    @daalimbe 10 місяців тому

    watching this wearing a calvin and hobbes shirt is something else (complete coincidence), a paperback collection of calvin and hobbes with a spine so creased it's almost split right next to me, and a fellow tired-of-always-being-a-new-word person, thank for another great vid :)

  • @sorscha
    @sorscha 10 місяців тому +2

    This is so incredibly written. Thank you.

  • @Zipshysa
    @Zipshysa 10 місяців тому +25

    I remember ordering It's A Magical World from those Scholastic Books paper catalogs as it was brand new back in the mid-'90s. I still have it. It was the very last book I remember re-reading before 9/11. It being the last Calvin and Hobbes book Bill Watterson published, I continue to see it as both the end of Calvin's childhood... and mine.

  • @juzrusty6714
    @juzrusty6714 10 місяців тому

    This was gorgeous and vulnerable! Big love ❤❤

  • @carrieq7409
    @carrieq7409 10 місяців тому

    Finally purchased my copy of the book. Thank you for this ❤

  • @dinorancher5560
    @dinorancher5560 9 місяців тому

    [Cries more intensely] 16:58
    Thank you Leon, I needed to hear that. I've been fighting for so long for a better world, feeling guilty all along the way.

  • @ericpeterson7712
    @ericpeterson7712 10 місяців тому +14

    Whoa! I didn't know that medication panel was fan made?! It was problematic for sure but I was happy that Calvin, at least I thought so, was canonically ADHD like myself. I still think he is but happy that comic wasn't made by Watterson

  • @otherperson
    @otherperson 10 місяців тому +7

    Beautifully crafted video. I knew nothing about Calvin and Hobbes going in, but I was really impressed by the language here.

    • @elevenseven-yq4vu
      @elevenseven-yq4vu 10 місяців тому +3

      Reading quite some Calvin & Hobbes as a kid helped me to develop into somewhat less of an arsehole. Bill Watterson did good things.

  • @impimpoundment4943
    @impimpoundment4943 10 місяців тому

    immediately clocked the use of Clarissa comics and it made me feel seen. i loved this.

  • @Dinosaur_Senior
    @Dinosaur_Senior 10 місяців тому +5

    One of your best videos to date. I’m going to pick up this book soon.

  • @spacechemsol4288
    @spacechemsol4288 10 місяців тому +6

    16:56 "It wasnt our fault". As much as i agree with the sentiment having children stops it from working and giving me any comfort. On the other hand it stops me from just giving up on the world and keep going.

  • @MaddMoke
    @MaddMoke 8 місяців тому +2

    Not going to lie, I hestitated to watch this because I was worried that one of the greatest authors of my childhood secretly had a Scott Adams style reveal of being a creep or bigot or something.
    But I am so happy to hear not only is he not, but is someone who chooses the right time to write what we need to hear most. I am absolutely going to go pick up his book after work today.
    Thank you for sharing your thoughts and introspection with us.

  • @expfcscruffy
    @expfcscruffy 10 місяців тому +3

    This was a beautiful video. Thank you!

  • @johnbrighton7813
    @johnbrighton7813 10 місяців тому +52

    Wow this has to be Leon’s most autobiographical video to date. I learned a good bit about their life. It even answered a question I always wondered about.

  • @Naedlus
    @Naedlus 10 місяців тому +1

    Wait... no mention of the collaborations with Berkeley Breathed? HERESY!

  • @bretthake7713
    @bretthake7713 10 місяців тому +8

    It's a quick read with great art, it's a good book!

  • @PogieJoe
    @PogieJoe 10 місяців тому +1

    Wonderfully done. The book really is beautiful and Watterson means so much to so many of us

  • @Hifuutorian
    @Hifuutorian 10 місяців тому +1

    I haven't been able to stop imagining a world like that. I don't remember even my early 20's as a result.

  • @georgekostaras
    @georgekostaras 10 місяців тому +89

    Honestly good for bill

    • @Owesomasaurus
      @Owesomasaurus 10 місяців тому +28

      Gotta admire a guy who sets out to master an art form and medium, refuses to merchandise it then dips.

    • @Nerdsammich
      @Nerdsammich 10 місяців тому +34

      ​@@OwesomasaurusMore than that, he seems to have mastered being content with enough, which is a rarity among those who achieve success in any endeavor.

  • @astralshore
    @astralshore 10 місяців тому

    It had never occurred to me that the adhd strip could be read as a happy ending.

  • @thedreadpoetryan1
    @thedreadpoetryan1 10 місяців тому +3

    This was beautiful and deeply relatable. Thank you.

  • @ailixchaerea9510
    @ailixchaerea9510 10 місяців тому

    Thank you for a beautiful and well-composed video! I was only an infrequent ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ reader when I was young but I was the same kind of kid. Good job ❤

  • @agaspversilia
    @agaspversilia 10 місяців тому +2

    I always had an immense passion for comic books. Being Italian I was double blessed because I had access to the American comic books and the italian comic books (Italy had lots of great artists working in such field). But after nearly 50 years of comic book reading, my absolute favorite is Calvin and Hobbes. Also my respect for the great artist who created it is boundless ❤

  • @hotswap6894
    @hotswap6894 9 місяців тому

    I stopped the video early to avoid spoilers but I want to thank you for letting me know about this, I had no idea and I'm excited to revisit this videoonve I buy and read the book!

  • @davisaroflmao
    @davisaroflmao 10 місяців тому

    well, heck, why is this just coming up in my feed a full ten days later... nice video, I'll grab that book for sure on monday, gonna wait until black friday weekend is over.

  • @alexanderfloyd5099
    @alexanderfloyd5099 10 місяців тому +3

    This was beautiful and sad. It made me miss my childhood and be thankful I’m an adult.

  • @pressqtoquaff
    @pressqtoquaff 10 місяців тому

    beautiful video friend. hadn't heard about the new book. thanks for sharing

  • @zanakil
    @zanakil 10 місяців тому

    I'm a C&H fan since I'm a kid, and I spent 40y being autisitc without knowing it. Very touched and moved to the tears by some parts. Thank you, Renegade.

  • @SkoomaFish
    @SkoomaFish 10 місяців тому +2

    i was also a 'smart, imaginative, creative, artistic' child. it fuggin sucked.
    40 years later, OCD/BPD1 + a variety of others.. i feel like i got robbed.
    calvin n hobbes got me thru a lot, being able to relate to either one of them was something at least, to hold on to.

  • @AJLikesCats
    @AJLikesCats 10 місяців тому

    Damn, I need to go back and read Calvin and Hobbes with an adult perspective. Truly the best comic strip of all time.
    Excellent video, love the way you approached it from a mental health perspective. Lovely meditations on guilt and shame.
    I'll buy the book, they should pay you 😸

  • @FriendOfTrashPandas
    @FriendOfTrashPandas 10 місяців тому +1

    oh shit, this was... beautiful. and out of left field. I cried like a baby through most of it. thank you for this. It's cool to know one of my favorite creators is also a fan of Calvin & Hobbes.

  • @guitarjoel717
    @guitarjoel717 10 місяців тому +1

    I’m so glad you made and shared this video. I just got my copy and I’ve already read it 3 times; it is wonderful!

  • @TheZollum
    @TheZollum 10 місяців тому +2

    This got me bawling. I forgot about calvin and hobbes. I forgot that feeling of wanting to hold on to your own imagination. The world can beat it out of you. But I think I held it somewhere. Thanks Bill and thanks for this video

  • @callusklaus2413
    @callusklaus2413 10 місяців тому

    It's funny, I have the callouses too.
    I was possessed by the natural world. I think I loved feeling it through the bottoms of my feet. I didn't really have a lot of friends for a long time, I only really began to flourish as a social person when I was sixteen or so. Until then I had the parts of my world that weren't paved over and destroyed for terrible suburbs and dangerous roads. People were horrible and vicious most of the time, but I was lonely all the same. There's something healing knowing that I'm not the only one who had to take refuge in that way.
    Thanks for making this. I think it's time to read Calvin and Hobbs again, and pick up a copy of The Mysteries.
    Keep yourself warm out there.

  • @acheybones588
    @acheybones588 10 місяців тому +2

    Wow, I really did not expect to cry this hard this early in the morning. The ADHD diagnosis at 23 is a few years old at this point, and I’ve finally grown so much; I’ve started feeling proud of myself, and I’d never really had that before.
    But this video hit me like a beautiful wrecking ball. I haven’t felt late-diagnosis grief like this in a while.
    Whoever reads this, I hope you have love and warmth in your life.

  • @famfamfam5782
    @famfamfam5782 10 місяців тому

    This vid is a real work of art. When renegade cut is cookin few can touch it

  • @VorpalMac
    @VorpalMac 10 місяців тому

    I wish I could like this video multiple times, because it deserves it.
    Wonderful.

  • @goranisacson2502
    @goranisacson2502 10 місяців тому

    As someone who also wandered, made imaginary worlds, and read every Calvin and Hobbes book back to back... this video was an experience. I'll definitely try to read The Mysteries, one of these days.

  • @holocoffin
    @holocoffin 10 місяців тому +7

    Great job on this video. This is one of my favorite books of all time. The first time I experienced it was when my partner read it to me in bed while I was sick. My childhood was unfortunately somewhat like yours and Calvin’s. But I feel lucky to know there is art that makes us all connected.

  • @drewjones1758
    @drewjones1758 10 місяців тому

    Especially great music choices for this. Thank you.

  • @jaesdarkness
    @jaesdarkness 10 місяців тому +4

    Respect, Gratitude, and Solidarity, Comrade.

  • @ghintz2156
    @ghintz2156 10 місяців тому +1

    Everything in this video was beautiful. Thank you for sharing some of your experiences with us.

  • @bdown08
    @bdown08 10 місяців тому +3

    Thank you for making this video and bringing attention to this book, I had no idea it existed.
    Whenever people talk about "The end of the world" I always think to myself, "the world will be fine...only humanity might go extinct."

  • @Guided-By-Boognish
    @Guided-By-Boognish 10 місяців тому

    Thanks for that, brother

  • @LiteralmenteFadul
    @LiteralmenteFadul 10 місяців тому

    I think this is the video of yours I liked the most.

  • @coqui-cola9162
    @coqui-cola9162 10 місяців тому +16

    This was a beautiful video. Thank you for sharing this. Calvin and Hobbes meant a whole lot to me growing up even though most of my peers didn't read it (I was born in the mid-90s after Calvin and Hobbes ended). I will check out The Mysteries.

  • @amycatass
    @amycatass 10 місяців тому +7

    I’m crying

  • @JMoore-vo7ii
    @JMoore-vo7ii 10 місяців тому

    Very touching, one of your best

  • @robertwarf3316
    @robertwarf3316 10 місяців тому

    I think this is my favorite Renegade Cut video

  • @nickhallal8630
    @nickhallal8630 10 місяців тому

    The editing of this video in some ways reminds me a lot of the film "Its Such a Beautiful Day"
    Calvin was alive.

  • @leftghostcrow1943
    @leftghostcrow1943 10 місяців тому

    i crying now, thank you for this wonderful video

  • @noone26667
    @noone26667 10 місяців тому

    Recently the complete collections of “Calvin and Hobbes” and “The Far Side” were on sale. I had to get both of them.

  • @thadiousmilton
    @thadiousmilton 10 місяців тому

    I really needed this. Thank you.