AJC 10/9/05 Calvin and Hobbes?!

Cafe Society
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I finally got around to reading yesterday’s Atlanta Journal. I headed straight to the comics, as any College student would.

I glance at it, while also grabbing the coupons.

My mind thinks “Calvin and Hobbes… thats normal” … “Bananas are 29 cents a pound…”

CALVIN AND HOBBES?!

I had grown so used to simply seeing C&H in its spot on the AJC, that it didnt imeidiately registier.

Sure enough… That orange was Hobbes that I saw.

I didn’t think Waterson was comming out of retirement, so it was no surprise that it was a reprint (That I had already read… at that).

What is up with AJC reprinting C&H… and when did it start, when will it end?

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It’s been going around for a little while now. No doubt to help plug Watterson’s Complete Calvin and Hobbes Collection.

Zev Steinhardt

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I believe that the syndicate has made “Classic Calvin & Hobbes” strips available to newspapers for years; very few seem to take them, though. I suspect the AJC just decided to add it.

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The strip is only available for a few months in coordination with the debut of the Complete Calvin and Hobbes. I can tell you that some cartoonists are upset that space in the comics section is being used to shill for his book when there are so many cartoonists fighting for space, though I think a lot of papers would run Calvin and Hobbes all the time if they could, the way many run Peanuts now.

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Yeah, The Tampa Tribune replaced the Peanuts reprints with C&H reprints. While I enjoy C&H more than peanuts I wish they would print something new like:

Penny Arcade

or

You Damn Kid

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Unfortunately, a lot of those artists suck. The AJC temporarily removed The Family Circus and put a note in it’s place asking readers if they knew what was missing and did they care if the comic was replaced.

I’ve been collecting C&H from the UComics site for some time now (just like I did with Bloom County and now, Outland).

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Yes. My parents let if slip that I am getting The Complete C&H for my birthday. :slight_smile:

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Here’s a link to the thread that showed up in Cafe Society about a month ago, when they first started rerunning Calvin & Hobbeses.

In the year 2057, newspapers will still be running “Classic Peanuts.” Other strips, including “Beetle Bailey,” “Hi & Lois,” “Blondie,” “Dennis the Menace,” and “Garfield” will still be limping along, long after the deaths of their originators, with the same old characters, situations, and gags. Oddly enough, “Family Circus” will be taken over by the great-grandson of the strip’s creator, who will take the comic in new, subversive, perversely hilarious directions, to the horror of some long-time fans and the delight of others.
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maybe if there strips were even half as good as a strip that ended over a decade ago, they wouldn’t have so much trouble getting space.

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You Damn Kid rules! I love that comic. It’s kinda like what would happen if Calvin and Susie Derkins got married and had some halfway normal kids. Who got horribly warped by their environment.

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Classic C&H strips are run daily, I believe in the original order, on the UComics.com website. Have to pay, though.

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70% of the strips in the Times could go and it would make life easier cause I could pick out the good ones without so much hassel.

I have to agree, C&H are better than pretty much everything in print today.

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Calvin and Hobbes rocks!!

Since the factual question has been answered, I’ll just move this to Cafe Society.

DrMatrix - GQ Moderator

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Another YDK lover. I’ve read all of them so far.

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YDK is funny, but could never appear in a daily newspaper – get real. Plus, C&H never had to do dick jokes to be funny – and that is the hallmark of a class act.

File it under the SNL vs. SCTV debate raging now.