• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 months ago

    Stephan Pastis is coming to Indianapolis in a couple of weeks. I’m going to meet him and get him to sign one of my Pearls collections!

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      3 months ago

      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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        3 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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          3 months ago

          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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            3 months ago

            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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            3 months ago

            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.)