The new Robin revealed? Plus, whatever happened to Calvin and Hobbes?
Watch how we seamlessly blend three items from last week, add a bit of comics history, and… but we’re getting ahead of things.
Last week, we had Grant Morrison talking about the new Batman & Robin series he’ll be doing with Frank Quitely, discussing (among other things) a new Robin. We also saw lnks to fan images as to whatever happened to Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes now that he’s older, with one sweet image and one… not so sweet. (Incidentally, I think the girl’s name is Berkeley. No, not Breathed.)
This puts me in mind of what happened the last time we replaced Robin. I was working in the production department at DC during the time of Batman: A Death in the Family , which took Jason Todd out. And at the time, there was a tradition in production of taking that day’s Calvin and Hobbes strip, xeroxing it larger, having Bob LeRose color it, and posting it on the bulletin board.
And Steven Bové wondered what they were going to do about the new Robin. And one idea led to another, and he drew a little something. And then it got passed around the rest of the department with everybody contributing, and a minor masterpiece was born.
So here, with pencils and inks from Steven Bové, inks by Jerry Acerno, letters by John Workman, and colors by me after the late great Bob LeRose:
Really? That "Calvin In The Family" artwork was on the walls of Fantagraphic Books when I worked there in the late '80s. 'Good to see it again, though!
Glenn,Haven't seen this is decades! Actually I did pencils and inks on this over a weekend. Keith Wilson was also somehow involved in this though it's far too long ago to remember. I donated the piece to a cartoon museum in upstate NY in 1999.Good memories.SB
Shoddy memory on the credits. I've updated it in the article.
haha hilereyous
i saw the full version with hobbes as batman on a t-shirt at a detroit tigers game 15 years ago. where can i find that picture? coolest t-shirt ever!