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Read this series (click next a few times to see them all): https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/05/05 https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/05
by chmod600 6y ago
Read this series (click next a few times to see them all):
https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/05/05 https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/05/05
It looks like it was written yesterday, but it's 30 years old.
- every 6y agoCalvin and Hobbes appear every day in my RSS feed and shall continue to do so in perpetuity...
- anarcat 6y agowait, tell us more! his does that work?
- every 6y agoTry: https://www.comicsrss.com/preview/calvinandhobbes https://www.comicsrss.com/preview/calvinandhobbes
- Anthony-G 6y ago> The preview functionality has been removed to avoid copyright infringement. :(
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- atulatul 6y agoYou can also follow the comic on twitter. https://twitter.com/calvinandhobbes https://twitter.com/calvinandhobbes For this it says born on November 18, 1985 :) https://twitter.com/Calvinn_Hobbes https://twitter.com/Calvinn_Hobbes
- sebmellen 6y agoCalvin and Hobbes always had a peculiar prescience about it.
- kop316 6y agoYou picked a particularlly good day for that one, especially when Hobbes says "As is advertising easn't intrusive enough before." If only you knew Hobbes....
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoWatterson could offer some biting social commentary, but towards the end of C&H's run he had also become a sort of curmudgeonly old man. For example, there are strips where he depicts modern art as being just as bunch of phoneys trying to hoodwink one another, but I know a few abstract artists personally and they are very sincere about the work they are creating (primarily for themselves, to scratch an inner itch), even if it isn't to everyone's taste. It might be for the best that he retired near what everyone felt was a peak. Had he kept going, he could have even ended up like certain other long-running comic strips where the polemic takes over and the humor is an afterthought.
- MontyCarloHall 6y agoI know people who write like this[0] and are very sincere about their writing. One can be sincere about anything, even meaningless pretension. [0] https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/02/11 https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/02/11
- sebmellen 6y agoGreat comic. It seems this way of writing has proliferated massively, even among younger (non-academic) groups like high-school students.
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoYeah, I consider complaining about academic writing like this to be just as curmudgeonly. I remember when I first got access to a good university library and could read all the criticism written about books and authors I had read – knowing that people like Watterson, Gene Wolfe, or Victor Davis Hanson had tarred it – and I found the vast majority to actually be valid and insightful, giving me an expanded appreciation of the book or an understanding of its place in the greater social discourse. Yes, literary criticism often focuses on highly specialized concerns and not everyone is interested in e.g. queer perspectives, but can't we be happy that it exists for those who do want to read it?
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- roughly 6y agoI grew up on Calvin and Hobbes, but in retrospect it's not terribly surprising Bill Watterson eventually decided to fuck off into the woods.
- shagie 6y agoZen Pencils on Bill Watterson (on advertising) - https://zenpencils.tumblr.com/post/59432017577/bill-watterson-a-cartoonists-advice https://zenpencils.tumblr.com/post/59432017577/bill-watterso... And the commentary - https://www.zenpencils.com/comic/128-bill-watterson-a-cartoonists-advice/ https://www.zenpencils.com/comic/128-bill-watterson-a-cartoo...
- ryantgtg 6y agoMy wife and I aren’t having the greatest time reading them to our toddler (she’s probably too young for them, but she says she really likes them). Calvin’s parents don’t like him! I don’t like exposing her to parents who are resentful toward their kid. Also, shortly after he retired Bill Watterson ate at my dad’s restaurant. My dad recognized his name on the check, and told him how much of a fan I was. Bill then drew Calvin on a napkin for me. And... I can’t find that sketch! Each time I visit my parents I spend half the visit digging through boxes for it.
- the_af 6y agoI don't get the sense that Calvin's parents don't like him. He is a force of nature and he overwhelms them, but they don't dislike him.
- tim333 6y ago>It looks like it was written yesterday, but it's 30 years old. I thought it was great but took me back to 30 years ago when magazines in the mail were the thing. I think I prefer the modern situation where at least you can go to sites like HN which are relatively non commercially biased. Back then there wasn't so much unbiased stuff available - maybe BBC programs and library books.
- Moru 6y agoIt's funny how everything looks so new and cool but when you do a little research, you find that it's not that new after all. Many things are just a rechew of something old.
- randomsearch 6y agoAmazing to think they nailed that but also the consequence, which they couldn’t possibly have foreseen, that this mechanism would eventually undermine democracy.