This isn't an edit BTW. Real newspaper comic from real newspapers.
Bill Watterson radicalized the youth, I should know, these were the only books I would read.
I was and still am but with less.free time a voracious reader, Calvin and Hobbes were massive in getting that started. I still have all the books, including redundant collections cause they have exclusive content. Had someone describe me as a combination of Calvin and Hobbes and Rhe Far Side when dating (we then just became best friends) and they got my number good, those were formative as hell.
I also loved farside. I got into it because my middle school home room teacher one year had this as a poster on the wall of his classroom:
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I usually am not an anime guy but check out nichijou, it's based on a Manga that's closer to a newspaper comic in style so it's sort of sketches that add up. It's got far side main class and Calvin and Hobbes subclass
I've read every Peanurs comic ever as well and despite being g merchandise to hell.and back the strip is good
Low key important piece of media for my eventual radicalization. It planted seeds in my brain that took a couple decades to germinate.
I always begged my mom to get me Calvin & Hobbes books and I read and reread the fuck out of them. Those and Goosebumps and eventually The Hobbit were the start of me being a voracious reader.
I guarantee I wouldn't be posting here right now if it weren't for Calvin and Hobbes. I don't think anything is as obviously formative for me.
