“My strip,” Watterson once said, “is about private realities, the magic of imagination, and the specialness of certain friendships.” Well, ditto for my relationship with the boy Calvin and his tiger Hobbes. Those adventures of a weirdo from another planet and his homicidal psycho jungle cat, their magical world in which the days are just packed with deranged mutant killer monster snow goons, that place where scientific progress goes “boink” and there’s treasure everywhere — they belong to their readers.

Matthew Morgan's gorgeous essay on Bill Watterson's fight for control over Calvin and Hobbes and his principles. I just learned about Nevin Martell's book "Looking for Calvin and Hobbes" and will be reading it soon.

Nearly 5,000 episodes across 90 series — from Zoo Quest in 1954 to Secret Garden in 2026. Search by animal, habitat, location, natural phenomenon, or theme to find exactly the episode you’re looking for.

Searchable archive of nearly 5,000 David Attenborough TV episodes via kottke.org

A dictionary asks: what is this color called? A pigment compendium asks: what is it made of? This catalogue asks both, and also: who paid for it, in money or in poison? Who painted with it before they knew what it was doing to them? When was it banned, and which sweeter substitute replaced it on the shelf?

Storied Colors - history and context for named colors.

Words of Type brings together the terms used in typography, illustrated and explained in multiple languages.

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This is the first version of the encyclopedia. It includes 200 terms covering multiple categories, such as type design anatomy, digital and analog typography, historical, technological and conceptual terms, as well as terms specific to certain scripts.

The fantastic, illustrated Words of Type encyclopedia,