Who made this brilliant Calvin and Hobbes/Bohemian Rhapsody fusion?

[full_metal_ox]

I’m familiar with Bill Watterson and Queen, of course; this has been making the rounds of Facebook, Imgur, and Tumblr since autumn 2023, but I’ve been unable to find a version that credits the fanartist who so cleverly fused the two—the lettering alone, including “Bismillah” in the original Arabic and the sudden gigantic red scare text of “BEELZEBUB”, is worthy of Joe Sabino. And the time frame is right: children in Calvin’s generational bracket would know this song as a favorite of their parents.)

(And, should Calvin’s dad actually happen to agree with his son’s grievance about school, you know he’d absolutely pull something like this.)

Comments

[calzephyr]

How charming! I haven't seen this before, so I appreciate the share :-)

[dine]

omg, that's fantastic - just damn amazing, and work so well together. and yeah, speaking as someone who reading the cartoon devoutly, and played that album repeatedly, those are definitely contemporaneous.

using my only Calvin icon

[acelightning73]

Freddy Mercury was born in Iran, and usually self-identified as "Persian". So he would have heard "Bismillah" a lot - it means "BY the will of Allah!, may this be made so!" (In Moorish Spain, this god worn down to "O Jala!" (spanish j prounounced as a strong H) Someone might say, "If this lottery ticket I'm buying wins the jackpot! (May God so will it!) - I'll get my old klunker of a car fixed."

[filkerdave]

This is all kinds of awesome