• pwnicholson@lemmy.world
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    The downside of not having any major corporation defend his IP for infringing on their profits is that you see tons of counterfeit Calvin stuff that is very out of character. Used to see more of it. Thankfully as the strip hasn’t been over-promoted, he’s not mega popular, so I don’t feel like you see it as much as you used to

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      Yeah, as a kid I definitely remember seeing the “kid pissing on <insert brand>” bumper stickers. Honestly, I never even recognized him as Calvin because it was so out of character for him. It wasn’t until years later that I was like, “hold up, that’s definitely Calvin, how was that ever allowed?”