Calvin and Hobbes

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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

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

For those who weren't around in the 80s, like myself, Calvin's dad is actually right.

At this point in time toy tie in programs made up the bulk of Saturday morning cartoon blocks.

G.I. Joe, He-Man/She-Ra, Transformers, etc are examples. What's more, a lot of these shows were low budget to minimize cost and maximize profit. Not only did they recycle scripts, they recycled whole scenes, some of which (famously He-man's transformation) would appear in nearly every or actually every episode, unchanged

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

For those like me who don't know him, he was a well-known film critic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Siskel

[–] anomnom 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Even more relevant, his show Siskel & Ebert, was on at the end of cartoons on Saturday mornings.

I’ve sort of explained how mid-80s TV worked when I was a kid to my 7y/o, but he probably just heard the ranting of an old fart.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Even more specifically, Gene Siskel was the film snobbier critic on the Siskel & Ebert At The Movies show.

His on-screen partner Roger Ebert had a much better sense of what was entertaining, while Siskel would give his "thumbs up" to more pretentious movies.

Calvin is correct when he says Siskel would probably give a "thumbs down" to typical 80s Saturday morning cartoons, which yeah were mostly actually really bad.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Oh Christ, there are full-grown adults born after his death.

Can we just go back to 1990 please

[–] idegenszavak 3 points 2 days ago

And there are celebrities from the 60s you don't know, current ones the teenagers of these days idolize and you haven't heard their names. Just be happy that you found one of today's lucky 10000.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

There are many more who aren't in the US.