The title got mangled from the grammatically correct "40 years ago, Calvin and Hobbes' raucous adventures burst onto the comics page" (though some of us learned "Hobbes's" in elementary school) to "40 years ago, Calvin and Hobbes' burst onto the page" (the ' definitely doesn't belong).
'Calvin and Hobbes' at 40
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> Some shows and movies seem harmless, initially, but then we noticed in so many kids movies (e.g., Zootopia, Sing), they're always yelling at each other, expressing anger, frustration, and hostility towards one another. My kids are similar. Years ago I actually just unplugged the TV and put it behind some furniture for 3 months because I was so fed up. It calmed them down a lot (this was after Covid lockdowns, when…
Dr Angela Collier just did a video on children's tv. She has some good recommendations. Evidently before she became an astrophysicist she got a degree in education. Who knew?
Re: 'Calvin and Hobbes' at 40
#73I can still remember choosing between the morning or evening paper based on which included _Calvin and Hobbes_, so it certainly worked to sell papers. The boxed collection is wonderful, and one of my favourites. For folks who want a bit more, there have been a couple of homages: "Hobbes and Bacon": https://imgur.com/gallery/all-hobbes-bacon-by-pants-are-over... --- a bit too on-the-nose for my taste, which doesn't re…
A couple of other comics with their own distinct personalities but an unmistakable C&H vibe:
Cul de Sac (https://www.gocomics.com/culdesac)
Wallace the Brave (https://www.gocomics.com/wallace-the-brave)
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You know, your comment reminds me of something my wife and I were talking about. We have been starting to let our child have a little more screen time and choose what he wants to watch (within the parameters we set). Some shows and movies seem harmless, initially, but then we noticed in so many kids movies (e.g., Zootopia, Sing), they're always yelling at each other, expressing anger, frustration, and hostility towar…
I watched Home Alone last year and the characters call each other names constantly. It's funny for sure, but no wonder me and my friends had such filthy mouths as kids. You grow up on that and sitcoms where the characters just rip on each other. It's so strange to watch as an adult.
I grew up in the seventies, we didn’t have the “filthy mouthed kids” media examples until Bad News Bears…however, prior to that, even without examples we still managed to be pretty filthy mouthed kids organically.
Which came first—the chicken or the egg?
Re: 'Calvin and Hobbes' at 40
#75I can still remember choosing between the morning or evening paper based on which included _Calvin and Hobbes_, so it certainly worked to sell papers. The boxed collection is wonderful, and one of my favourites. For folks who want a bit more, there have been a couple of homages: "Hobbes and Bacon": https://imgur.com/gallery/all-hobbes-bacon-by-pants-are-over... --- a bit too on-the-nose for my taste, which doesn't re…
Gene Wolfe wrote a story titled Petting Zoo, and here is the introduction he wrote for it:
> Petting Zoo is a favorite story of David Hartwell's, the master editor who edited this book and most of my others. Do you like dinosaurs? I loved them when I was a kid, and I've noticed that Hobbes' buddy Calvin loves them at least as much. Perhaps David feels the same way.
Petting Zoo can be read here:
https://archive.org/details/yearsbestsf30000unse/page/n9/mod...
Bill Watterson also guest-drew a few precious strips for Pearls Before Swine.
https://slate.com/culture/2014/06/bill-watterson-does-pearls...
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My role model as a parent. I had the why are old pictures in black and white conversation with my kids almost word for word. It wasn’t until they were in fourth grade that they learned that the world didn’t used to be black and white. I think they still believe what I told them about how they determine weight limits for bridges though.
I hope this is a joke. Calvin's dad lying to him wasn't supposed to be idealized.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
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Yea English be like that sometimes Look up some crazy sounding 20+ character word, takes three steps, and then you get a definition of the sub-sub-sub word and it says ".... blah blah, derived from the Greek base - and then also the Latin base - ", and you realize you had no chance at getting it from any kind of first principles or anything.
I meant the remarks about wiktionary in a sarcastic way. Explaining the word’s meaning twice by itself was a bit funny. Especially as it’s not a very common word a lot of non-native speakers need to look up. Probably also a few native speakers.
For what it's worth, the first two steps in your lookup would come naturally to a native speaker- it's a suffix formation similar to e.g. "cleanliness" and "friendliness".
"Curmudgeon" itself is interesting, because while it's not particularly common, I actually think a lot of native English speakers would recognize it because it's got a lot of character- for some reason, the way it feels to say and the way it sounds almost has some of the character of the meaning.
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#78My favorite Calvin and Hobbes reference: https://xkcd.com/409/ There are even more on xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Calvin_a...
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#79That is just two years after I burst onto the page. Calvin and Hobbes was a major part of my childhood - I loved it. For something casually consumed on the daily at the breakfast table, it was so earnestly, so obviously, smarter than the median cultural offering. Smarter also then the local nightly news broadcasts. Smarter also than the median educational intervention I experienced through elementary and middle schoo…
Well said. I feel similarly despite being born about 15 years later.
Re: 'Calvin and Hobbes' at 40
#80I can still remember choosing between the morning or evening paper based on which included _Calvin and Hobbes_, so it certainly worked to sell papers. The boxed collection is wonderful, and one of my favourites. For folks who want a bit more, there have been a couple of homages: "Hobbes and Bacon": https://imgur.com/gallery/all-hobbes-bacon-by-pants-are-over... --- a bit too on-the-nose for my taste, which doesn't re…
Much, but not all, of 'Phoebe and Her Unicorn' has just-enough echoes of C&H while doing its own thing. https://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn
Thank you for that!
Ordering the first boxed set for my daughter's birthday next year.