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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 !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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HELP: Looking for mods that to take over community! - UPDATED! (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works to c/calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world
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Update: M_F (https://sh.itjust.works/u/m_f@lemm.ee has ) has kindly stepped up to be lead moderator on all the comic communities! That makes me very happy that they will continue!!! If you reached out to help, please work with M_F directly. Thanks again M_F!!!!

TLDR: I’m sad to report that I will no longer be posting daily comics as I just don’t have the time :( If anyone wants to take over the daily posts, please DM me. Ideally, there would be 2-3 people to split up posting duties to make it easier.

The longer story is, I run my own graphics business which is my regular full-time gig. On top of that, at the beginning of the year. I started my lifelong passion project and created my own comic strip called Bello Bear (https://sh.itjust.works/c/bellobearofficial@lemmy.world). Sadly, there is only so much time in day and running a full-time business, a passion project, and also having some sort of home life at the same time is just not possible.

Even though posting the daily comics is only about a half hour of my time, it adds up. It’s also 7 days a week and though I’m a creature of habit, it is a grind. I would rather dedicate that time to my passion project, which is currently limited to only Mon, Wed, and Friday releases as I'm already stretched thin.

This is effective immediately for the following communities…

Calvin and Hobbes https://sh.itjust.works/c/calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world

The Far Side https://sh.itjust.works/c/thefarside

Garfield https://sh.itjust.works/c/garfield@lemmy.world

Bloom County  https://sh.itjust.works/c/bloomcounty@lemm.ee

Cyanide and Happiness https://sh.itjust.works/c/cyanideandhappiness@lemm.ee

If you are interested taking over the reigns for any of the comic communities, please DM me.

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[–] Libb@jlai.lu 60 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Just wanted to thank you for everything you did and wishing the best with your own comic :)

[–] MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works 26 points 5 days ago

You're welcome and thank you very much.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Thank you for all you've done. I loved seeing those posts; they were some of my favorites. I commend you for transitioning the sub to your absence in the best way you can as well.

[–] hereforthepopcorn@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Thank you so much for the joy you brought to me every day over the last year. I came here every evening to see the new Calvin and Hobbes and it always brought a smile to my face. I really appreciate you for that. I’m very happy for you and wish you all the best for your business and passion project!

[–] MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 days ago

Thank you very much!

[–] m_f@discuss.online 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Are you comfortable with handing over the lead mod role for each of the comics? I don't know all the details, but I think being head mod affects certain mod actions? If you're up for it, it seems like @MentalEdge@lemmy.world is taking over the daily posts here, and @nokturne213@sopuli.xyz is taking over !bloomcounty@lemm.ee. I've started posting the rest. One caveat is that I don't think it's a good idea to make the head mod someone on another instance, because cross-instance moderation actions can get weird sometimes.

[–] MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

Sounds good to me!… It’s so great to have so many great people come together and keep the communities going. This is why I love Lemmy, it’s so unReddit.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago

One caveat is that I don't think it's a good idea to make the head mod someone on another instance, because cross-instance moderation actions can get weird sometimes.

I have a .ee account as well that could be head mod for !bloomcounty@lemm.ee.

[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for posting the comics and congrats on running a successful business!

This seems like something that a bot could do via the Lemmy API, no? Granted, a number of folks block bot posts.

[–] MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You are welcome and thank you very much. I'm guessing a bot could do it, but that is certainly not in my wheelhouse of expertise to setup.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 20 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

It would be mine.

My mind-boggling rate of posting is enabled by my augmenting the process with custom tools I maintain myself.

It's also how I post to !moomin@sopuli.xyz which I started inspired by the calvin and hobbes posts. (Though I haven't yet made it run daily without my intervention, each post only takes a second of my day, zero, when I get around to have it run on its own).

If you have all the strips and their dates stored digitally in some way, I'd be more than happy to help keep the daily posts going, by potentially entirely automating the process.

[–] MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Right on, I'll check out Moomin! As to C&H, I do screen caps of the dailies from GoComics https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1988/02/15. If you can automate that would be awesome. Let me know if you want me to add you as a mod.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I hope you find some other people to moderate, as I have already taken on more than enough on that plate (two dozen communities and counting). Sooner or later I'll be in your position, looking for people to help me mod, rather than being the one offering to mod 😅

But, the short term work of writing a bot to do this and perhaps then even running it for you (indefinitely even) is within reason. If you like, DM me with a way to contact you on discord or matrix. I'd love to hear where you source the comics and dates for all your comics communities.

Perhaps I can make something generic enough that with just some configuration it could work for all your communities.

[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 7 points 5 days ago

Please take MentalEdge up on this offer! ☝️

[–] moroni@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

We could use this website that a Reddit user created about 15 years ago:

https://www.s-anand.net/calvinandhobbes.html#19851120

Then it's just a matter of automating this like you suggested, since we can request a specific date in the URL parameter.

How do you post to Lemmy? What tool did you use for posting?

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I'm using the pythorhead library in python.

Makes interaction with lemmy in code very easy.

[–] hereforthepopcorn@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Oh that would be so great to keep the daily posts going through an automation!

[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Thanks for stepping in, I was hoping my post would prompt someone to either point to an existing solution or offer to help. You did both!

[–] Tacoma@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago

I unfortunately can't help with posting, but I want to say a big thanks for all the calvin and hobbes posts! Although I have most of the comics, I don't take the time to look at them often, and your posts brought a lot of smiles to me!

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What time (UTC) should the comics be posted? I might be able to take one or two days a week.

[–] MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 days ago

I usually post around 17:00 UTC.

[–] Flummoxed 10 points 5 days ago

Hey there! Thank you for all your hard work, and congratulations on the success. I've never done moderation before, but I am willing to help out if I can get some guidance. I'm on tesseract, which I've heard is good for modding.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago

100% understandable. Though grateful, I was always pretty amazed to see all the daily comics posted by one user, hah. Happy to hear a solution has been found, and looking forward to seeing your comics among them in my feed. Best of luck!

[–] m_f@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

I'm willing to help mod and/or post

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I def can’t commit to that but I followed your own comic:)

[–] MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago

Thank you very much.