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   BigNate+CalvinandHobbes=:) said, 10 months ago

   Nate looks like a baseball player
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   BigNate+CalvinandHobbes=:) said, 10 months ago

   Why would the sun hurt his eyes??
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   garfieldfanclubpresident said, 10 months ago

   Mr. Peirce, how do Cartoonists like yourself get new ideas for so many years? You must eventually run out of ideas. How do you get your motivation?
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   OldestandWisest said, 10 months ago

   @garfieldfanclubpresident

   I would guess, wanting to continue eating, that’s a great motivator!
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   bignate said, 10 months ago

   @garfieldfanclubpresident

   Well, one of the truisms of cartooning is that there aren’t really any new ideas. Just about every joke you could ever think of has been told already, so the challenge is finding fresh ways to tell the same jokes. It’s a fun challenge each year to find a new angle on School Picture Day or Christmas or whatever the case may be. So that’s one part of my motivation. The other part, as OldestandWisest said, is keeping my family fed and keeping a roof over our heads. And paying my kids’ college tuition bills.
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   MagicFan said, 10 months ago

   @bignate

   Or Prank Day…
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   MagicFan said, 10 months ago

   @bignate

   I wish you could have more of Nate’s pranks. Those are the best part!
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   orbenjawell said, 10 months ago

   As regards Francis’ question at the end of today’s installment: Francis, when you exist in Nateworld, the answer to that is ALWAYS yes!! Arf! ARF!!
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   Potrzebie said, 10 months ago

   @bignate

   Doesn’t Poptropica generate more revenue than the strips? Who ar ethe co-owners?
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    Comic Minister said, 10 months ago

    Not at all Francis.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 10 months ago

    Nate needs to wear shades on his eyes. But then it would be harder to see him emote so eye black is fine. He also looks like what foot ball players use it too. Ancient Egyptians’ eye liner not only looked good on both sexes but helped to protect their eyes also.
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    Mikal Harris said, 10 months ago

    @bignate

    Garfield keeps telling the same jokes and the way they’re told seems to be getting more and more the same.
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    garfieldfanclubpresident said, 10 months ago

    @Mikal Harris

    actually, once in 2011, garfield used the EXACT SAME comic strip as once and 2009
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    garfieldfanclubpresident said, 10 months ago

    And I have read all of the garfield comic strips, so I should know about this. they don’t get the same, they are always a little different. but in some occasions, they are a little different. Either in ‘79 or in one of the 80s Garfield comics he has rubber arms. Then once in the 90’s or 00’s Garfields he has them again to turn up the thermostat.
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    comicnut4636 said, 10 months ago

    @bignate

    You do an excellent job, keep it up.

    Thanx!!!!!!
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