# Heads up for "Bloom County" and "Calvin & Hobbes" fans

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heads-up-for-bloom-county-and-calvin-hobbes-fans/162124>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 17, 2003, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heads-up-for-bloom-county-and-calvin-hobbes-fans/162124 "2003-03-17T22:21:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Murcielago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Murcielago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Murcielago)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heads-up-for-bloom-county-and-calvin-hobbes-fans/162124/1 "2003-03-17T22:21:21Z")

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Starting today, [MyComicsPage](http://www.mycomicspage.com) begins a run of all strips from the beginning of _Bloom County_ through the end of _Outland_. Six strips will be posted each day. Supposedly, there are many bits which were never included in the various published collections (maybe for good reason ;)).

The entire run of _Calvin & Hobbes_ is there as well.

There is a subscription fee of $10 for one year. You can choose to have selected comics sent to you via e-mail. I don’t mean to come off like a salesman here, be aware that the strips are not the best quality – averaging only about 22k for the daily .gif images and around 80k for the Sunday entries.

_Calvin & Hobbes_ always takes me back to my childhood. My friends and I passed a lot of time in grade school drawing mutated snow-goons.

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heads-up-for-bloom-county-and-calvin-hobbes-fans/162124/2 "2003-03-17T23:13:29Z")

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thanks for the heads up.

Those were two of my faves.  
Now just add _FarSide_ and I’ll never sin again, promise…

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**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heads-up-for-bloom-county-and-calvin-hobbes-fans/162124/3 "2003-03-18T00:56:49Z")

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Actually, Calvin has been running there for years and is free. I read it daily.

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**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heads-up-for-bloom-county-and-calvin-hobbes-fans/162124/4 "2003-03-18T06:23:10Z")

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Thanks, but I have read and re-re-re-read ALL of the C+H and BC strips. The two best comics of my lifetime, without contention. It disgusts me that frat boys love Calvin so much, but whaddaya gonna do?

hrh