Calvin and Hobbes

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Hello fellow Calvin and Hobbes fans!

About this community and how I post the comic strip… The comics are posted in chronological order on the day (usually) they were released. Posting them to match the release date adds a bit of fun and nostalgia to match the experience of reading them in the newspaper for first time. Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. It really sucked when I missed a day. Only years later, when I got the books was I able to catch up on the missed strips.

Calvin and Hobbes is a daily American comic strip created by cartoonist Bill Watterson that was syndicated from November 18, 1985, to December 31, 1995. Commonly cited as "the last great newspaper comic",[2][3][4] Calvin and Hobbes has enjoyed broad and enduring popularity, influence, and academic and philosophical interest… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes

Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s Calvin and Hobbes!

Ps. Sub to all my comic strip communities:

Bello Bear !BelloBear@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/bellobearofficial

Bloom County !bloomcounty@lemm.ee https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty

Calvin and Hobbes !calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes

Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness

Garfield !garfield@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

The Far Side !thefarside@sh.itjust.works https://lemmy.world/c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works

Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.

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About the daily strip bot (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz to c/calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world

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Heyo!

I run the @dailycomic@sh.itjust.works bot.

Until now it has worked by grabbing the comic for a given date from gocomics. As of today they seem to have quite successfully blocked my efforts to continue doing so. For a while the "comics" python library solved the problem but this no longer works either.

So, at least for now. I'll be stopping the bot.

I'll likely be adapting the way my code for !moomin@sopuli.xyz works, but this requires having all the strips. And for CnH I'll need them by original date.

If anyone has that, let me know.

Edit: aw heck, I did a full rip to prepare for this eventuality and forgot, switched the bot over to using that

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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I don't like this. If Watterson wanted to release it under a permissive license, he would. We're not entitled to consume it any way we please just because we enjoyed it when we were kids. Maybe it's indeed time to take the hint.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 week ago

I don't know how closely you've been following the enshittification of GoComics...

But they have aquired the digital distribution rights of a bunch of older comic strips, and have been tightening the screws for years.

This isn't coming from Watterson. GoComics has been slowly cutting away at any other ways to read these classics in order to make a monthly subscription the only way to access them.

If you want to support Watterson, buy physical print.