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Hello fellow Calvin and Hobbes fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip… The comics are posted in chronological order on the day (usually) they were released. Posting them to match the release date adds a bit of fun and nostalgia to match the experience of reading them in the newspaper for first time. Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. It really sucked when I missed a day. Only years later, when I got the books was I able to catch up on the missed strips.
Calvin and Hobbes is a daily American comic strip created by cartoonist Bill Watterson that was syndicated from November 18, 1985, to December 31, 1995. Commonly cited as "the last great newspaper comic",[2][3][4] Calvin and Hobbes has enjoyed broad and enduring popularity, influence, and academic and philosophical interest… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes
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This one is brilliant, isn't it. I thought it was some parody on Calvin & Hobbes at first, given the crudeness of the second panel.
Late to the game here, but that might have been intentional, even in the "heightened" state of one of the fantasy strips. Until he strongarmed the syndicate during one of his "sabbaticals," Watterson was stuck with the same restrictions that everybody else was, namely that papers could simply elect not to run the first two panels. That meant that everybody had to "waste" the space on a title block and a throwaway gag. I could very easily imagine him being a bit petulant and making the throwaway particularly coarse, though TBH not entirely out of character for Calvin trying to play cooperatively with Susie.