I particularly like his look in the final frame

  • Sylvartas@lemmy.worldEnglish
    203·
    1 year ago

    Yo I remember reading this as a kid and not fully getting it.
    Now that I think about it, C&H was probably the first step towards my leftist radicalization

  • Shgrizz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    I know that it’s verboten to say anything negative about C&H, but the amount of words in this comic would make even Tim Buckley’s eyes spin.

  • centof@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I have seen a quite a few Calvin and Hobbes comics scrolling through feeds but dang this one really sticks with me.

      • GreenPlasticSushiGrass@kbin.social
        5·
        1 year ago

        Thanks. I used to like online magazines, but even they’re not the same as experience as they used to be. I miss looking forward to a physical copy of a magazine each month, reading it cover to cover, the way it’d be kind of bent and curled with my fingerprints in the ink when I was finally done with it. Then I’d look forward to next month’s issue. I don’t think that feeling is coming back.

        • Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          I was subscribed to Donald Duck comics as a kid (very popular in Northern Europe). I still remember the anticipation of coming home from school on Tuesday afternoons and cracking open a fresh comic book. I can still remember the smell of the ink 20 years later.

  • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    I forgot about this one!

    I reference Calvin’s dad a lot but I think my favorite is the weird face contest one

  • TurtleJoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    When you read this comic, it makes you realize that it shouldn’t have been surprising that Bill Waterston retired the strip suddenly and moved to a remote cabin in the middle of nowhere to paint watercolor landscapes.

    • Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Honestly, the fact that Calvin and Hobbes had an ending makes us all look more fondly upon it.
      Bill Watterson’s approach was the exact opposite of what Jim Davis did, which was selling out completely with no regard to the actual quality of the comics. Garfield is basically a brand at this point, Calvin and Hobbes was art.

      • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Jim Davis specifically made a character to sell shit. He did some interesting development with his comic for the first decade-ish, then unabashedly launched a media empire. Good for him, frankly-- not everything has to be high art and hawking shit to the masses is a valid way to live your life.

        Throw in the fact the he appreciates (and has never tried to sue) derivative works like Garfield Minus Garfield or I’m Sorry Jon makes him ok in my book.

      • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        At least Jim Davis isn’t the Dilbert guy, though. And he doesn’t live in a Garfield shaped house (although maybe he has a Garfield shaped pool? I forget).

    • fckreddit@lemmy.mlEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Honestly, this comic captures so much of the society we live in. And it has become so much worse too with the advent of social media.

      • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        That’s just bringing the cost down, the amount of donation requests and catalogs my 70-80 y/o parents receive on a weekly basis is astounding.

        And my dad has been dead for 10 years and still getting tons.

        Like at least 5+ pounds of mailers a week, most with those fucking annoying little envelope windows. Around thanksgiving it doubles or triples in weight with the extra catalogs, and crazy shit like dream catchers, (garbage) work gloves & plastic shopping bags, calendars, note pads, address labels, calendars, notepads (I can’t emphasize enough how many there are).

        A $20 donation from a few people can’t possibly result in more than $1-2 making to people in need.