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I get the sense that Watterson is sharing his own childhood relationships with adults and author figures. And by and large they aren’t happy, healthy relationships. His parents regularly debate whose choice it was to have a kid, and despite the exceptional strip shared by another reply to me, for the most part his dad seems happier working than being with Calvin. I definitely didn’t notice or care about this dynamic…
Watterson stated many times that he was nothing like Calvin and his parents were nothing like that either. He just built the characters and then progressively explored their relationships as a way of reflecting on the pressures of modern society. It just so happened that he was exceedingly good at building realistic personalities. Personally, C&H probably kept me alive as a teenager. When I was questioning the point…
In the Anniversary collection, Watterson notes things like “this is basically an exact quote from my dad.” (For example, in the strip where good dad says they should put the Christmas tree in the garage and not decorate it.) So I don’t think they are totally divorced from each other.
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I grew up on Calvin and Hobbes, but in retrospect it's not terribly surprising Bill Watterson eventually decided to fuck off into the woods.
My wife and I aren’t having the greatest time reading them to our toddler (she’s probably too young for them, but she says she really likes them). Calvin’s parents don’t like him! I don’t like exposing her to parents who are resentful toward their kid. Also, shortly after he retired Bill Watterson ate at my dad’s restaurant. My dad recognized his name on the check, and told him how much of a fan I was. Bill then drew…
I'm studying Spanish, so I made a little script that fetches Calvin & hobbes cartoons in both Spanish and English and then converts each strip into bilingual strip with ImageMagick. It works well enough (>99%). #!/bin/bash for i in {1..1000}; do x=$(date +'%Y/%m/%d' -d "$i days ago"); z=$(date +'%Y-%m-%d' -d "$i days ago"); wget https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbesespanol/$x -O $z-es; wget https://www.gocomics.co…
perl -wnle '/(.{0}https://assets.amuniversal.com.{0,33})/ and print $1'
curl -s https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbesespanol/$x -o $z-es;
brew install coreutils
for i in {1..1000}; do x=$(gdate +'%Y/%m/%d' -d "$i days ago");
z=$(gdate +'%Y-%m-%d' -d "$i days ago");
Now it still doesn't work, but I'm giving up, hopefully I saved a little time for somebody...
I'm studying Spanish, so I made a little script that fetches Calvin & hobbes cartoons in both Spanish and English and then converts each strip into bilingual strip with ImageMagick. It works well enough (>99%). #!/bin/bash for i in {1..1000}; do x=$(date +'%Y/%m/%d' -d "$i days ago"); z=$(date +'%Y-%m-%d' -d "$i days ago"); wget https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbesespanol/$x -O $z-es; wget https://www.gocomics.co…
Tried do this on a mac. I had to replace gnu grep with perl: perl -wnle '/(.{0}https://assets.amuniversal.com.{0,33})/ and print $1' I had to replace wget with curl: curl -s https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbesespanol/$x -o $z-es; Then I realized I need gnu date, which had to come as part of coreutils: brew install coreutils So date becomes gdate for i in {1..1000}; do x=$(gdate +'%Y/%m/%d' -d "$i days ago"); z=$…
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Thank you. You're most kind. I have many business ideas already, but I'll think about it.
How about just a web front-end that lets people upload other comics?
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My wife and I aren’t having the greatest time reading them to our toddler (she’s probably too young for them, but she says she really likes them). Calvin’s parents don’t like him! I don’t like exposing her to parents who are resentful toward their kid. Also, shortly after he retired Bill Watterson ate at my dad’s restaurant. My dad recognized his name on the check, and told him how much of a fan I was. Bill then drew…
There are plenty of C&H strips that show his parents love him. This one comes to mind, but there are many others: https://i.redd.it/wgwm23u9k4sx.png Kids are not stupid and you don't need to insulate them from everything that isn't 100% happy, fluffy and wonderful. As a former kid who had loving parents and loved C&H, the only message I remember taking from the strip in this regard was that parents are people too and…
Sure it varied a lot. But I learned quickly that I had to really certain kinds of jokes.
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Tried do this on a mac. I had to replace gnu grep with perl: perl -wnle '/(.{0}https://assets.amuniversal.com.{0,33})/ and print $1' I had to replace wget with curl: curl -s https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbesespanol/$x -o $z-es; Then I realized I need gnu date, which had to come as part of coreutils: brew install coreutils So date becomes gdate for i in {1..1000}; do x=$(gdate +'%Y/%m/%d' -d "$i days ago"); z=$…
And you have ImageMagick also installed?