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The Far Side Coming Back?

Mano said:
Calvin and Hobbes was a huge part of my childhood. Can't wait to share it with my kids.
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I had both Journal Inquirer and Hartford Courant paper routes in 1980's. I absolutely read comics before starting my routes.
 
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Chuck said:
The recipe said to use a number of teaspoons of Jerks, but he used tablespoons. Rookie mistake, but it may explain a lot.
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Well, lots of people mix up English to metric conversions.
 
“I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time”
“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
'“When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.'
''They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines.'
-Calvin
 
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Great news if true. Absolutely loved the Far Side and my grandkids always received a Calvin and Hobbs book from me for Xmas and of all the gifts we spoiled the grandkids with this was their favorite. We'd sit down on Xmas Eve and read it from cover to cover.
 
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Chin Diesel said:
To think most people under age 30 have no idea of daily doses of Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes or Bloom County / Outland (Sundays).
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I haven't bothered looking at the comics in the Sunday paper in years. Without those 3 it's just not worth it.
 
Fans of Berkeley Breathed's work may want to check out the movie Secondhand Lions, which was released in 2003. One of the characters in the movie grows up to be a cartoonist. The cartoons shown in the film were drawn by Breathed. No Bloom County characters are drawn, but I remember the first time that I saw this movie that I thought the artwork had a familiar look. As for the movie, it is a favorite mine and my wife as well.
 
my favorite of all time is 'Peanuts,' a name that Charles M. Schulz disliked immensely.
the 50's and 60s version is far more thought provoking, while the final decades were more whimsical.
'Peanuts is one of the literate strips with philosophical, psychological, and sociological overtones that flourished in the 1950s. The strip's humor (at least during its '60s peak) is psychologically complex, and the characters' interactions formed a tangle of relationships that drove the strip.'
I would argue that Snoopy is the most recognizable and well known fictional character ever (theologies aside). he's certainly my favorite persona.
Perhaps Syracuse University professor Robert Thompson put it best when he famously described “Peanuts” as “arguably the longest story ever told by one human being.”
 
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ClifSpliffy said:
my favorite of all time is 'Peanuts,' a name that Charles M. Schulz disliked immensely.
the 50's and 60s version is far more thought provoking, while the final decades were more whimsical.
'Peanuts is one of the literate strips with philosophical, psychological, and sociological overtones that flourished in the 1950s. The strip's humor (at least during its '60s peak) is psychologically complex, and the characters' interactions formed a tangle of relationships that drove the strip.'
I would argue that Snoopy is the most recognizable and well known fictional character ever (theologies aside). he's certainly my favorite persona.
Perhaps Syracuse University professor Robert Thompson put it best when he famously described “Peanuts” as “arguably the longest story ever told by one human being.”
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Peanuts was a great strip in the 50's and 60's, one the the best of all time. During the 1970's the strip started to go into decline, and the decline deepened as the decades advanced and the focus of the strip switched away from Linus and earlier characters and more towards Peppermint Patty, Marci, Rerun, and Snoopy's overactive fantasy life. Snoopy's World War I pilot stuff was great, but not so on some of the other fantasy stuff, it became just too much.
 
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