Calvin and Hobbes

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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

Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s Calvin and Hobbes!

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Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness

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The Far Side !thefarside@sh.itjust.works https://lemmy.world/c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works

Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.

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[–] Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Gotta love a good meta joke

Something I always loved about Calvin and Hobbes is how there's usually something else going on in the background while they're conversing. Instead of just being talking heads, Calvin and Hobbes are usually out for a romp in the woods or some such.

And yet, Watterson's still using the four panel format common in syndication. He tells a richer story than most who share the format. And even here where he's highlighting the talking heads trend - which has only become too prevalent since we ditched xerox in favour of copy/paste - he appears to have still drawn each pose by hand.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 11 points 3 days ago

I thought he'd cloned them when I was reading, but you're right, they're all different.

[–] intelisense@lemm.ee 12 points 3 days ago

Was Calvin's grandad reading Everet True I wonder...