If you read comic books as a child, do you still read them or buy new ones?

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I used to read Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse, as well as Asterix, Lucky Luke, Garfield and The Peanuts. I’ve “graduated” to Calvin and Hobbes, Gaston, and Pearls Before Swine.

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