Re:Bill Watterson's Life After "Calvin and Hobbes"
by TehShrike on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @03:27AM
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I bought a big pile of C&H books and my kids are devouring them with as much appreciation as I did when I was their age. I see no reason why my grandkids won't do the same
Re:Bill Watterson's Life After "Calvin and Hobbes"
by coldtea on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @04:07AM
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Your grandkids maybe, most of today's grandkids and later generation grandkids, not. Not in any numbers compared to the 80s and 90s kids.
Re:Bill Watterson's Life After "Calvin and Hobbes"
by TehShrike on Friday October 27, 2023 @10:53AM
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Why not?
Re:Bill Watterson's Life After "Calvin and Hobbes"
by CalRobert on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @04:52AM
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My daughter is six (so gen alpha) and she latched on to my old calvin and hobbes books and has read them all repeatedly. Not saying you're wrong but the appeal seems to go across generations.
What I really notice is that Calvin roams freely outside, and is her age. I don't really feel comfortable letting my own kid do that :-\.
Hopefully, by the time there are new copyright owners (after Watterson) and want to do all of the above, it wont be a possibility anymore, because the Gen Alphas wouldn't know or care what Calvin and Hobbes was, and wont be able to follow such "heavy literature" anyway.
>Imagine if Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit had been kept so pristine.
If only...