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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!

Ps. Sub to all my comic strip communities:

Bello Bear !BelloBear@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/bellobearofficial

Bloom County !bloomcounty@lemm.ee https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty

Calvin and Hobbes !calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes

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

Garfield !garfield@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

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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[–] mrbigmouth502@piefed.zip 43 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

"Unfortunately we're ALL "someone else" to someone else."

So true.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Marylin Manson did a song about that once, in fact. He used... slightly different terminology.

[–] mrbigmouth502@piefed.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

Irresponsible Hate Anthem, although I think he was specifically implying that everyone is something someone else hates.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 37 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

This is a hell of a lesson for a kid to learn through a comic.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 27 points 3 weeks ago

Bill Watterson was the GOAT

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Wait until they get to the

Tap for spoilerbird and the baby raccoon.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

I think those arcs already happened. At least I remember seeing one or the other posted here.

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I don't quite remember that one well.

If only my old collection hadn't been destroyed by a hurricane many years ago...

[–] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

Have you figured out what all is missing?

A bit off-topic, but is anyone else confused about how this is phrased? That "all" sounds really out of place to me...

[–] Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago

It's a common enough way to say that. It means roughly "what are all the things that are missing" in this case.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah I've seen this phrasing a lot, but never heard anyone use it in real life. I always assumed it was American.

[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's regional, even -- people from my part of the US are like to think you sound folksy if you use it. The "all" in "what all" is the same phenomenon as the "all" in "you all" that becomes "y'all". You can use it with most pronouns -- "who all is coming to dinner?" or "where all you been?". It's mostly an intensifier.

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

We say this in the Philly area.

[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Hah, no. Other side of philly. The single-finger salute side of philly.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not the previous commenter, nor am I from Philly or Pittsburgh, but I do believe you just made an enemy for life.

[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Idk I think yinz is a top tier regionalism.

edit: I finally realized you included Pittsburgh because I've confused Pennsylvania towns. Sorry, everything east of the Mississippi just kinda all blends together for me; I didn't mean anything by it.

[–] 7uWqKj@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Interestingly, the literal translation "… was alles fehlt" is perfect German

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 4 points 3 weeks ago

Super common phrasing in the US.

[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure what's happening in this one? We are supposed to think they pretend to call the cops but they actually do?

[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I don't understand what you don't understand. The dad just got off the phone with the police, and they are talking about what happened.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They got home and discovered the house had been robbed. Hobbes is missing.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago