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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 [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/bellobearofficial

Bloom County [email protected] https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty

Calvin and Hobbes [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes

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

Garfield [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

The Far Side [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

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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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

1988 was a leap year, which confused the bot since I didn't get the code to account for that quite right. Fixed it, and the bot will now post two comics a day until caught up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Thanks for your posting robot and for the comics.
Please notice the : "...bot will now post two comics..." seems down today.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah. I'm keeping an eye on it. The cronjob is set to run every 12 hours, so it'll be two a day, but not at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Nice. What language did you use to make the bot?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Python, using the pythorhead lib.

Makes it all doable in very few lines.