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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

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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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I have the kind of job that takes me to all sorts of places around the world every now and then. Obviously my kids would like to come with me. Obviously they can't.

So instead we have an agreement: They get to select one plushie each to come with me, and I take pictures of what they're doing.

So I have pictures of them:

  • Sitting on front of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur
  • Eating tacos at T.J. Birria Y Mas in Houston
  • At an airport playground in Amsterdam
  • Enjoying a business class meal onboard Thai Airways
  • Playing in a tree in a park in Singapore
  • Getting a hug from our crewing manager at the head office
  • Watching the screens attentively in the instrument room of a survey ship
  • On a beach in Galveston, TX
  • Having a pizza in Doha

Every time I come home, the first thing on the agenda is to see these pictures. My kids'plushies are among the most well traveled plushies in the world.

A thought just occurred to me. If I made "passports" for them, obvously pretend, but with picture and everything, do you think customs and border agents around the world would stamp them for me? EDIT: My kids and I will be making passports for one plushie each. Let's see if they get stamped in Saudi Arabia on my next trip.

A couple of examples I found in my gallery:

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Try it? I think you'd need to have a fast explanation (I.e. elevator pitch) because the customs people are usually a little overworked.

Some might refuse, perhaps even all of them. But try it, might even get a taste of group psychology.. if a few agents stamp, will other agents, seeing real stamps, decide more easily to stamp as well?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

"Could you please stamp these as well, for my kids to see?"

If they refuse that, I don't think anything else would work either.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

This is adorable! My kids would love that. Thanks for the idea!