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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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The Far Side !thefarside@sh.itjust.works https://lemmy.world/c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works
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Simple strip, but the layers and sophistication (relative... I get it's still a newspaper strip), man. Watterson trusts the audience to chuckle even though the entire punchline is within Calvin's interior monologue. Then, as others have mentioned, there's the fact that the artwork is more than the bare minimum, and actually adds to the comic. Calvin's dad is clearly just as bored as Calvin, and despite the obvious sympatico, Calvin as a kid completely misses it and is still all for throwing his dad to the ~~wolves~~ tiger.
More broadly, while, yeah, C&H goes with a pretty vanilla 80s/90s nuclear family, it's made clear on multiple occasions that mom is highly intelligent and not entirely fulfilled being a SAHM. It also stops short of making dad a clueless buffoon or making the marriage toxic. The sitcom tropes are there, but subverted as needed and the family's lifestyle is also not put on a pedestal. Man, I love Calvin and Hobbes.
Dad is a cyclist. So rare in the comics.
Not just a cyclist (and thank god it wasn't golf), but an obsessive about it as a hobby and an angrily disillusioned idealist, just like Calvin.