Shout-Out/Newspaper Comics

FoxTrot had a moment coming at the end of a (week's worth) discussion by Roger and Andy about the success of the Dilbert comic (which might also count as an extended Shout Out]. In the end, they conclude that Dilbert is likely popular simply based on its own merits, meaning that emulation of a current success isn't a particularly good idea. Jason (drawn in a slightly different style) then runs in, telling his parents to check out the cool stuffed tiger he found.

Roger: Maybe we should include the recent past in that statement, too...
Andy: I don't know. There's something to be said for nostalgia.

- FOUR were packed into this strip:

(The characters are sitting at a campfire)
Paige: I miss Brandon and Dylan.
Peter: I miss Bart and Homer.
Andy: I miss Bryant and Kate.
Jason: I miss Worf and Data
Roger: (eating the marshmallows) Am I, um, missing something?

- The strip made a double reference to My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic and Game of Thrones in the April 1, 2012, strip.
At some point, nearly every comic strip (and webcomic) has had a Shout-Out to Peanuts. Too many to list.
- Forty comic strips did a shout out to Peanuts in one day.
- Returning the favor, Peanuts has enough Shout-Outs to other works to fill their own page.
In Calvin and Hobbes, Hobbes once used Crisco to style Calvin's hair into Astro Boy's pointy-horn-hair. Hobbes points this out, which Calvin (and later Suzie) thinks is awesome.
- In one Sunday strip, Calvin's parents admire a Krazy Kat comic strip in a museum. If they're not in museums, they should be.
- The names Calvin and Hobbes are taken from a 16th-century theologian (John Calvin) and a 17th-century philosopher (Thomas Hobbes).

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