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You know how people always say "back in my day, things were better!" (in between saying "you kids don't know how easy you have it")? For me, while there are p
by ergothus 7y ago
You know how people always say "back in my day, things were better!" (in between saying "you kids don't know how easy you have it")? For me, while there are plenty of differences between now and when I grew up, and these differences are sometimes good and sometimes bad, there are only two things I've been solid on.
The Far Side, and Calvin and Hobbes.
The bad part is that we aren't getting more. The good part is that we still have access to them.
- throwawayhhakdl 7y agoGooder news, he said he will on occasion, make some more.
- Elof 7y agoI have all my old copies of The Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes in my library waiting for my daughter. Some of my most fond early memories are of Calvin and Hobbes specifically and it resonates with me in a completely different way now than it did then, obviously. I have to imagine there are other great works being made now that I might be missing out on because of my age? One person that I think fits the bill, but isn't currently making comics is Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half is on the level. Anyone have something new you recommend I check out?
- fredophile 7y agoIt's not new but you could check out Pearls Before Swine. A few of the strips were drawn by Bill Watterson.
- selimthegrim 7y agoI think they swapped for a week and Stephan Pastis drew some Calvin and Hobbes
- fredophile 7y agoThe time I'm thinking of was well after Calvin and Hobbes ended. I'm pretty sure that the two comics have little or no time when they both coexisted.
- sp332 7y agoRight, this is hard to explain, but it happened. (Well, it was Watterson drawing PBS.) https://stephanpastis.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/ever-wished-that-calvin-and-hobbes-creator-bill-watterson-would-return-to-the-comics-page-well-he-just-did/ https://stephanpastis.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/ever-wished-t... Links to the strips are at the bottom.
- fredophile 7y agoI think you missed some of the context earlier in this thread. There is no disagreement that Watterson drew a few strips of PBS. The post you replied to asserted that this wasn't a swap between Watterson and Pastis. If you can explain how Watterson doing guest content creation constitutes a swap please go ahead.
- selimthegrim 7y agoI was mistaken. I misremembered Pastis' joke as an actual occurrence.
- ethbro 7y agoI would be hard pressed to argue that smartphones made life better, as handy and inevitable as they were. Dumb phones + pagers + hardlines + internet on desktops, was a pretty great time to be alive.
- gerbilly 7y agoI second that brother!
- grecy 7y agoI believe I read there will in fact be new Far Side comics going up
- dwd 7y agoAre the first two panels new or the last ones he previously ever did? Certainly self referential.
- WalterBright 7y agoMusic was better. For example, Led Zeppelin.
- cgh 7y agoI'd add Bloom County in there too. The '80s had great syndicated comics.
- sp332 7y agoA couple years ago, Berkeley Breathed also decided that making comics was pretty enjoyable if he didn't have to meet deadlines. He's been posting new strips intermittently on Facebook. https://facebook.com/berkeleybreathed/ https://facebook.com/berkeleybreathed/
- selimthegrim 7y agoWhen I saw him talk at the National Book Fair in DC in 2016 shortly after he resumed, he explicitly blamed Harvey and Bob Weinstein for the lack of a movie.
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