Tracey, it is SUCH cool material! Every slide an “OOOoooOooo”!

We’re going to need a collective noun for Bartmann jugs. Because they look adorable as a little choir (and because there’s a SHITTON of them trades across the North Sea).

More slides should carry the title “why tennis balls?” 🎾 🎾 🎾

(Amused how the local merchants tried to claw back the trade in all the goods of daily life from the Low Countries merchants)

LOOK AT THE BEAUTIFUL ARCHIVE BAG!

Yesssssss! The cool material STUFF Eliot studies: made in the Low Countries, imported in large numbers through London, and lost in the ground all over England… 😅

Ha! Missed opportunity for joy on the part of that translator! Some really turn the punning in translated names into an art. At least they got an alliteration in, which C&H don't have.

Thanks! I've been ignoring the maga responses, but have to get better at actually blocking. Done now.

ooooo! Are their names Lassia & Leeviä in Finnish? Is there a pun/reference in that translation?

(It's 'Casper & Hobbes' in Dutch, which I've always found intriguing as we don't have 'Calvin' as a name so makes sense to adjust, but we don't have 'Hobbes' either...)

Publishing in February from @sunypress.bsky.social , a co-edited volume with the wonderful Lisa DiBartolomeo. It contains 25 chapters from an outstanding group of authors, and each one is a certified banger. 🙂✊

(gotta finish reviewing the galleys though--next week, @rcolesworthy.bsky.social!)

I love those.

And the dinosaurs, which often are just 'not much of a point to make, but look how damn good I am at nature-drawing'.

In some of his commentary he describes just going for broke visually when he can't think of a good plot.

This might be one and I believe that the other is when he sneezes and can't believe the size of what came out.

and it is now here! (and has felt like 5pm for the past two hours already, given the pitiable state of the light....)

ha! beautiful!

Basically, come and get the preview of exciting future publications! We can be time travellers together!

I never know whether I find it reassuring that we're not in a completely unprecedented situation or deeply depressing that we didn't manage to do anything about it.

That little slow blink in the third panel never fails to make me laugh.

I think the fact that we never really can identify fully or solely with either of these guys (or the rest of the cast) is part of the joy of them: a wink & an invitation to make up your own mind not just copy the protagonist.

That was a good strip.

I can't remember off hand how many years it and The Far Side overlapped.

I was gifted the 3 vol, full-colour harcover collection.

I could never decide it I was more Calvin or Hobbs, esp. with ones like this...