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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!
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Bloom County !bloomcounty@lemm.ee https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty
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Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness
Garfield !garfield@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/garfield
The Far Side !thefarside@sh.itjust.works https://lemmy.world/c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works
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What year would have been camping without a good weather forecast? Or then without cell data for weather forecasts? Wild.
It’s not like you could go online. TV and newspapers had your local, but unless there was someone you could call, usually you had to chance it. Best you usually could do was pickup a newspaper from the store when you got there.
We did have the Old Farmer's Almanac, but it doesn't really narrow it down much.
Earlier in the story arc they got to their campsite by canoe. In the 80s it's totally reasonable that they didn't know when the rain was going to break.
‘87! Cellphones with internet weren’t common until the early 00s, and boomers adopted them LATE! Your best bet until ~2004 was a Sidekick…
Cell data for weather forecasts... Calvin and Hobbes was published in the mid 80s to mid 90s.