#recreations

[valenciags]

the most judgy hoes you'll ever meet and we love them for that might make more idk

[nowherepubliclibrary]

Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie

Original art by @foldingfittedsheets. Check out their Commissionpalooza!

TITLE: Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie AUTHOR: Mabel Syrup ORIGIN: Calvin and Hobbes (comic strip; July 10, 1988; created by Bill Watterson)

The charming childhood story of Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie, which tells the memorable story of... a hamster named Huey and a kablooie that is gooey, is beloved by children and known by parents the world over. The book is perfect for reading at bedtime, as long as the reader remembers to do all the squeaky voices, gooshy sound effects, and of course the Happy Hamster Hop, and refrains from making Hamster Huey speak very sarcastically, do everything very fast, or get decapitated. Your child will surely love this book just as much the thousandth time they hear it as they did the first, and will demand to hear it a thousand and first time, regardless of whether or not you want to read it over and over and over and over.

If you enjoyed Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie, be on the lookout for Mabel Syrup's upcoming sequel, Commander Coriander Salamander and 'er Singlehander Bellylander! And if you didn't enjoy Hamster Huey... you may also want to be on the lookout for it, just in case. [Donated by Calvin's dad, who says "Just keep it, please. I'll tell him his tiger ate it or something."]

I. Children's books — Character Name and the Noun Phrase — Kablooies (gooey) II. Favorite books — Bedtime stories — Read it to me again, and again, and again.... III. Running gags — Just a funny title — Left to the imagination

Hahahaaa, so this one might be where I've finally gone off the deep end with this project. As any right-minded person who was a child in the late '80s and early '90s, I love Calvin and Hobbes, so I've wanted to include Calvin's favorite book for a while. Unfortunately, the cover is only actually shown in the strip once, and it's... not very detailed, as you can see below. So, since I couldn't find an available image of a hamster that I liked and have rather limited art skills, I decided to commission actual artist and Tumblr user @foldingfittedsheets to create artwork that could at least more or less pass for the image from the strip that I could then add a title to and bookify. Apparently intrigued by my... let's go with "niche" request, they accepted the commission and produced the absolutely delightful Wattersonian artwork that you can see in its unadulterated state below. If you like their artwork and would like to commission some of your own, their Commissionpalooza is still open!

The only canonical image:

@foldingfittedsheets's amazing original art before I mucked with it:

[unteriors]

Brother what tag should I block to stop seeing the video game posts

I'll tag each of them with #recreations going forward (and I'll also try to scale back the reblogs) - sorry for filling up people's timelines with it. Been busy with other stuff outside of tumblr too so I've let this slide.

[opelman]

Signal Box and Standard by Treflyn Lloyd-Roberts Via Flickr: BR 4MT 80104 steams towards Harman's Cross at the start of a Don Bishop/Steam Recreations photo charter on the Swanage Railway. Locomotive: British Railways Standard Class 4MT 2-6-4T 80104. Location: Harman's Cross station, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset.

[nightzero67]

The Clock Tower & the other building from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." 1988.

[tomoleary]

In the 70’s and 80’s C. C. Beck did a number of recreations of Golden Age covers.

[taylorswifthomedecor]

Recreate the set of the Midnights Album Photoshoot

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