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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] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm going to need help understanding this.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

The presents are coming! The presents are coming!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The Brazilian translation I own replaced him with Thomas Jefferson. Kinda random but I found it funny

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What's the translation of the previous "antelope/ant eloping" pun? I can't imagine that works in other languages.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

"brutamonte" (rude or big strong person) and "bruta monte" (really big mount)

It's a very bad joke, but I don't blame the translators. How would they ever translate this bit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Huh, I wonder why they did that?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Because almost nobody in Brazil would know Paul Revere

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But they would know Thomas Jefferson? If I were tasked to choose the most famous U.S. political figures, I might have chosen Washington or Lincoln...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm not from Brazil but from Germany and out of all the U.S. founding fathers Washington, Franklin and Jefferson were the ones I had heard of. Lincoln also, but he is not one of them, is he?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

No, Lincoln wasn't a founding father. He was just a famous president who came later.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Lincoln is famous because he was the president during the US civil war and abolished slavery. This happened a century after us independence/founding.