this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2023
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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:
Bloom County [email protected] https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty
Calvin and Hobbes [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes
Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness
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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I'm not trying to be mean, I am honestly asking- what is the thinking behind posting a strip with nothing else?
What do you feel a comic strip should come with? A three course meal?
I'm slowly getting ready for a wedding I don't want to go to and having a little break and you gave me a good out-loud guffaw, buddy. Thanks for the larf
It was very funny. A three course meal? Boom, I got blown off of the internet.
you got the sports section?
the C&H strip is pretty much the sole point of this community
Yeah OK, of course. I mean that's what the community is about. But here, and as it was on reddit also, the posts are: this is a weekly C&H strip from 15 years ago. No insight, or personal reflection, just here is an old weekly strip from a collection you almost certainly own. I don't see the purpose of this. Like if you find a popular community about basically anything, it tends to not be just a post of a scan of a comic that's been out there for years and years.
For me, it's nice to just have a short chuckle once a day while browsing. I suspect many feel the same way.
There's nothing wrong with your way, but it requires more effort. I would love if you or somebody did it, but until that happens the low effort daily post will have to do.
yeah fair enough. thanks for your response, thats all I was asking, a couple people got defensive and cross with me :)
Because not everyone owns it or has seen it before. So them releasing it like this let's people enjoy it as a little daily pick me up.
fair enough