• Nusm
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    I’m sure you probably already know this, but he is so respected that Bill Watterson did a handful of the strips.

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      4 months ago

      I actually did not know that! It must not be in any of the collections I have unless it isn’t obvious. Do you know when he did them?

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        Here’s an article about it. Apparently it was June 4th, 5th, & 6th of 2014. I thought Watterson did the whole strip, but according to the article, he only did the middle panel. Still, pretty impressive that he would volunteer to do it!

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          Thanks! Berkeley Breathed did a Bloom County series during COVID where Opus and co. work to reunite Hobbes with Calvin. I think it was only done with Watterson’s permission, but it looks really close to his art.

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            I’ve never seen that, thanks for sharing!

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              4 months ago

              Have you ever seen the one-off cartoon that Watterson drew for the cartoon documentary Stripped?

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                4 months ago

                And lastly, this is one of my favorite Pearls Before Swine! 🤣

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          And it looks like June 7th was Pastis doing a tribute to the last Calvin & Hobbes strip.

          (I found all 4 strips on GoComics with a Google search for the dates.)