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1. about 1 hour ago on Red and Rover

   He was a character in “Roland and Rat Fink”. They were 1960s cartoons produced by Friz Freleng and David de Patie. Friz Freleng had previously been a director on Warner Bros cartoons and created the characters of Porky Pig (1935), Sylvester the Cat (1945) and Yosemite Sam (1945) as well as many other minor characters such as Rocky and Mugsy. The Roland and Rat Fink cartoons often recycled plots from Bugs Bunny’s encounters with Yosemite Sam.

   In 1963, Warner Bros temporarily closed it’s animation studios. Friz Freleng went into partnership with David De Patie who had been producing the Warner cartoons for the past few years and they continued to produce cartoons for Warner Bros – ,mostly featuring Speedy Gonzelez (created by Robert McKimpson in 1953) and Rpad Runner (created by Chuck Jones in 1949). They also produced cartoons such as The Pink Panther and Roland and Rat Fink for United Artists Studios.

2. about 2 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Bill Watterson claims not to be so sure of that and I think that his uncertainty shows in the strip.

3. about 2 hours ago on Andy Capp

   Not at all. He just missed out that Andy does pigeon racing as well as cadging and cheating.

4. about 2 hours ago on Broom Hilda

   Maybe so. I know that Woody Allen used sketches like it.

5. about 2 hours ago on Broom Hilda

   Who nose?

6. about 2 hours ago on Nancy Classics

   This one seems to me to be a reprint from just a few weeks back.

7. about 2 hours ago on Wizard of Id

   “And that magic water was the thing that made him shrink!”

   That was from the theme tune of a 1970s children’s sitcom called Big John, Little John which I watched when I was about ten-years-old. Your comment reminded me of it.

8. about 2 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Do you mean that Calvin’s imagination may actually bring Hobbes to life for a time?

   I considered that possibility but the first ever strip – from November 18 1985 – shows Hobbes as alive and speaking to us and seems to be set before he met Calvin. I first read that strip when I bought the first Calvin and Hobbes collection some weeks after I bought the second Calvin and Hobbes collection in which I saw Hobbes alive without Calvin for the first time.

   Also, Watterson states in The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book that he does NOT see Hobbes as either a stuffed doll who comes to life or as a product of Calvin’s imagination. He intended the strip to illustrate two different viewpoints – Calvin’s view that Hobbes is a living animal and the view of other characters that Hobbes is a stuffed doll.

9. about 2 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   True. Robert4170 and myself are beginning to sound like Calvin and Hobbes when they bicker with one another.

10. about 2 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    You say that Hobbes cannot fit into a washing machine if he really is as Calvin sees him. I think that a strip in which Calvin looked into the washing machine and saw Hobbes in the tub and saw Hobbes as being the same size that he usually sees him as being is proof that the Hobbes that Calvin sees does fit into the tub of the washing machine.

    I keep pointing out that Calvin has an amazing imagination and that I originally assumed that Hobbes was part of it. It was seeing strips which show that Hobbes is as Calvin sees him when he is alone – and that he is able to see us through the Fourth Wall and speak to us – which first made me question this. I started to look out for strips which show Hobbes on his own. I originally thought that this strip was the first one I had seen that shows Hobbes as a doll when he is alone. I now know that I was wrong – because I still largely saw Hobbes as a doll when this strip first appeared – and that the strip could show part of a tiger doll’s tail but could also show part of Hobbes’ tail while he is lying under the bed clothes.

    You have never explained to me how you think that Hobbes is able to see us through the Fourth Wall and speak to us if he really is part of Calvin’s imagination as I originally assumed him to be.