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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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Calvin and Hobbes [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes

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Garfield [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

The Far Side [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

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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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I never knew what he looked like.

he looks like a real cool nerd in his Hobbesian sweater

[–] aaaa 51 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's the only photo I've ever seen of him

He of course looks like Calvin's dad

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

He of course looks like Calvin's dad

But with Uncle Max's mustache. That's a key difference.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

haha yea. he looks great.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen 10 points 1 month ago

Yeah it was a self portrait.

[–] bamfic 40 points 1 month ago
[–] apfelwoiSchoppen 25 points 1 month ago

Gosh, I never knew he did a commencement speech. Watterson has always been someone I look up to. His work is still so inspirational to how i want to approach life and work. He's the real deal and I salute that he did his work his way, and not the way the suits wanted. This speech reinforces all of that.

[–] RubberElectrons 22 points 1 month ago

Good number of heavy lines to understand from his speech. "Most of us discover where we were headed once we arrive".. a philosophy I've built out of that was trying new things even when I thought I'd found the best, new places, restaurants, ideas.

Life's all about the experiences, even the ones far off the beaten path.

[–] IMALlama 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This was a good read. Anyone who'se purchased any of his anthologies will be familiar with some of the content, but the appeal to live a fulfilling life and how hard that can be as you get older was refreshing.

[–] LesserAbe 5 points 1 month ago

He's an inspiration.

[–] Chickenstalker 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I bet the college regretted making him paint over his ceiling painting.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

If it were still visible, I bet art students would pay extra to stay in that room. I wonder how Watterson would feel about that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"If you ever want to find out just how uninteresting you really are, get a job where the quality and frequency of your thoughts determine your livelihood."