I know at least a few people here like Calvin & Hobbes. I ran across this on another comic site:
http://www.cleveland.com/living/index.ssf/2010/02/bill_watterson_creator_of_belo.html
Very well put. He managed to not "run the wheels off," which I can fully respect of an artist. Look at Garfield, that cat has been around forever, and Jim Davis may be liable to getting shot if he discontinues it (I'm sure there's fans who are Garfield fanatics enough out there). Calvin and Hobbes has been, and always will be my favorite cartoon strip!
Interesting, I personally have always been a peanuts fan. Yay snoopy :)
(http://www.baxterboo.com/catdogblog/assets/content//snoopy_flying.jpg)
:D I got that in the papers, pretty surprised when I saw it. Excellent comics.
Quote from: Scotty on February 02, 2010, 03:35:48 PM
Calvin and Hobbes has been, and always will be my favorite cartoon strip!
Ditto. It was such a good strip. Nowadays, you never even see reruns of it in your comics.
Yesss, Calvin & Hobbes and their amazing armies of snowmen/snow creatures :3
hehe
Honestly, I still read a few pages of Calvin & Hobbes every week. That could just be because I put a few books in my bathroom, but nonetheless I love it with a passion!
Scotty I remember once you created a signature that randomized Calvin & Hobbes strips, do you still have it? O:
I love this strip. My all-time favorite. (The Far Side is 2nd, but C&H remains 1st by far.) I have the entire boxed set sitting in my room, and I revisit it every once in a while.
Quote from: Lucifer on February 02, 2010, 07:09:28 PM
Honestly, I still read a few pages of Calvin & Hobbes every week. That could just be because I put a few books in my bathroom, but nonetheless I love it with a passion!
Scotty I remember once you created a signature that randomized Calvin & Hobbes strips, do you still have it? O:
Lemme see if I can dig it up, I got it going on two other forums.
EDIT: The forum's settings don't allow for me to post it using the standard BBCode, it limits it to picture files, and not PHP scripts. Using a standard <img> tag won't do the trick, because then it gets improperly sized, as it can't filter the image and resize it as you could with BBCode, it's just posting the raw image, then relying on set parameters to reduce the width/height, skewing the image. I'm checking out PECL's Imagick to see if I can get that to reduce the file size to a set dimension(s) while scaling the image properly.
EDIT 2: I got half the battle won. SMF is being extremely sporadic with it's specifications, and i'm having a hard time understanding what it's doing, so this might be a bit challenging, but I'm determined to get this to work!
**DISCLAIMER: Eat me for double posting, I don't care**
I just got the signature back up and running full swing. I re-wrote the entire script and method for going about how it picks comics. I constructed a script that goes through and pulls a list of all comics that have ever displayed on the current day, of any year (i.e. Feb 3rd of 1989,1990,1991, etc...). And from there it randomly chooses one of those specific comics to display. This way, it will help maintain order to some of the strips that rely on previous strips to get the full joke, it'll display them properly in order so the story fits (as well as season for Christmas and stuff, so the snowmen comics will only display in the winter, etc...). It shrinks them down so that the SMF forums don't freak out and distort the images. PLUS, since the Sunday color comics are too big for the forums, and they will only be distorted tremendously if displayed, I have it not displaying the Sunday comics here on the S.O. Forums, but will anywhere else you go.
Oh, and in case you are curious, I scripted it to print the publication date of the specific comic at the bottom left, so you'll know when your favorite comic appeared. Still need to tweak it to find a good color balance that'll fit well, but other than that, it's done! Hurray!
That's freakin awesome.
Man, so many memories of reading this comic.
Pretty sweet Scotty, although I noticed that the date is always February 3rd. Is this accidentally taking today's date or something? Also, more often then not when I refresh I get the same page as last time. *shrug*
Quote from: Lucifer on February 03, 2010, 09:04:59 PM
Pretty sweet Scotty, although I noticed that the date is always February 3rd. Is this accidentally taking today's date or something? Also, more often then not when I refresh I get the same page as last time. *shrug*
Not a coincidence. Take this as an example: today, being Feb. 3rd, it will only display comics that were published during its lifespan on Feb. 3rd, be that 1986, 87, 88, so on and so forth. Tomorrow, it will display comics that were published on Feb. 4th. This way, the season strips remain seasonal to when they are displayed, and order is maintained for some of the comics that rely on a series of comics to get the full joke. At any given time, you will get around 8-10 comic strips at random every day.
Oooohh!! I didn't get that completely. Wow, that must have taken a lot of work.
Not really, only took about an hour. Was fairly easy to do, just had to generate a database with a table to pull all the dates and such from, then generate the image with the GD imaging libraries. By comparison to some of the other stuff I've gotten tasked with, this was cake, and fairly painless.