Calvin and Hobbes Is Officially Part of Bloom County Continuity

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https://www.cbr.com/calvin-and-hobbes-part-bloom-county-continuity/

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1. Two of my family's faves

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2. In 2019, they teamed up on a Bloom County strip

Watterson did a Spaceman Spiff comic with Breathed supplying the punchline in the last panel. They also carried on a mail correspondence with each other in the 80s with Watterson mailing Breathed insulting comics using Bloom County characters and Breathed doing the same with Calvin and Hobbes.

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3. Would love to see those messages collected, even if VNSFW ! nt

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4. He published one

When he retired his post Bloom County strip, Outland. In the last book, he reflected on the various correspondences he had over the years - Leonard Nimoy asking for a copy of a strip of everyone playing Star Trek; Reagan's Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger asked for a strip where Opus is composing a poem and gets stuck on the last line and uses his name; Harper Lee of, "To Kill a Mockingbird," Garry Trudeau being upset with him for stealing jokes, which he admitted to when he started.

Here's the Watterson cartoon.



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5. I always got a kick out of the Caspar poem

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