I particularly like his look in the final frame

  • Sylvartas@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 years 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

  • TurtleJoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 years 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
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      3 years 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.

    • fckreddit@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      3 years 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
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        3 years 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.