Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

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Margueritem said, 5 months ago

I love it! The joys of boys and tigers.
Ladywolf17 said, 5 months ago

Oh wow you hit pay dirt. Dig some more let’s see what else we can find. My excitement builds.
DAHamilton said, 5 months ago

Look at Calvin’s eyes in panel 4–he’s never seen a Coke bottle! I didn’t think they were obsolete in 1988 or even now for that matter. The Coke in bottles from Mexico made with cane sugar is the best.
Michael Arnold said, 5 months ago

Yay! we’ve discovered an immaculate 5 cents refund! :D Love these comics, have all the books!
pouncingtiger said, 5 months ago

Bill Watterson got the idea for this strip from the movie “The Gods Must Be Crazy”.

If you haven’t seen it, see it. It’s really funny.
Michael Arnold said, 5 months ago

Sounds like a good idea Pouncingtiger, I will definitely do that thanks for the tip!
LX013 said, 5 months ago

Venus von Willendorf!
Margueritem said, 5 months ago

LX013: Very similar, but this one is a bit more slender.
Yukoner said, 5 months ago

Love the way the tongue sticks out in panel 3. It’s a sign of the most intense concentration. I know it occurs in many boys and men but I don’t know if it is a trait in females.
chamin said, 5 months ago

I used to have that tongue in panel 3 :o)

pouncingtiger,

Have seen the movie, love it!
wolfbyte36 said, 5 months ago

Suddenly I have a thirst for some soda.
Johanan Rakkav said, 5 months ago

“The Gods Must Be Crazy” had a sequel, “The Gods Must Be Crazy II”. I saw both of them, and now own them both as DVDs. Highly recommended!
Leonardeuler said, 5 months ago

This comic just shows how stupid I am: I didn’t even know coke was already produced in ancient times. I have to study some more archeology.
Ivy0730 said, 5 months ago

Yukoner said, about 1 hour ago
Love the way the tongue sticks out in panel 3. It’s a sign of the most intense concentration. I know it occurs in many boys and men but I don’t know if it is a trait in females.

Female trait? all the cute ppl’s trait i guess lol…yeh,
Calvin’s pretty cute by doing that, Hobbes did it often also.

and thanx for the “The Gods Must Be Crazy” recommendations!
Superfrog said, 5 months ago

Looks like a crystal skull Indiana Calvin.
carpetinwater9 said, 5 months ago

Frame 1 Hobbes: Great Expectations
watcha said, 5 months ago

The Gods must be Crazy was made in good old South Africa - still one of the best movies to come from here. The San(Bushman) found the bottle of Coke and had just about the exact expression as Calvin in panel 4.
prasrinivara said, 5 months ago

Touche, DAHamilton; I’ve seen the classic-shape Coke bottles for sale in India (all of about four weeks ago), and imitation Coke bottles (Indian brand Campa-Cola used a very similar script to Coke, and identical-shape bottle) have been sold even when Coke was off-market (1977-1991) in India.
Ray C said, 5 months ago

If it’s old enough, it might have some traces of cocaine!
You think Calvin has an imagination NOW!??

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/cocaine.asp
Macushlalondra said, 5 months ago

That really is one of the old fashioned kind. Maybe they could sell it as an antique and make a lot of money.
TapiocaHead said, 5 months ago

The wonderful and exhausting discovery work of archaeologist.
Kerovan said, 5 months ago

Wait for it. This is the start of something big. In Calvin’s imagination anyway.
Furienna said, 5 months ago

I think Calvin would have known, that it’s a bottle, if his imagination hadn’t run wild as usual.
Stuart Gathman said, 5 months ago

While refined cocaine is very dangerous, the tiny amounts in coca tea, such as coca cola was originally made from, are healthful. If you visit Bolivia, they will serve you coca tea. The CocaCola company imports tons of Coca leaf, and “decocainize” it before making coca tea for the modern product. It was a sad over-reaction, really, to ban the coca along with the refined cocaine. The refined caffeine products (“NoDoze”) are somewhat dangerous also, and a few people manage to kill themselves that way each year. (And a few teaspoons of Nutmeg will cause brain damage - and they sell that in the grocery store.)

A big injustice is our attempts to stop coca farmers from growing their crop. It is not coca farmers, but the cocaine refiners that cause the problem.
Shalpa said, 5 months ago

You’ve hit it big this time Calvin. This discovery will certainly be worth at least…a nickle!
Carmy said, 5 months ago

It’s the real thing!
n2theabyss said, 5 months ago

}:-p my daughters tease me to this day when i unconsciously use my tongue like that during intense concentration, Calvin.

i remember the squatty 7oz bottles from half an eon ago?… sooo tasty!
musicnut1986 said, 5 months ago

pouncingtiger said

Bill Watterson got the idea for this strip from the movie “The Gods Must Be Crazy”.

I love that movie! The innocence of the tribesmen and the logic they apply while trying to make sense of the “gift from the gods” is wonderful.
musicnut1986 said, 5 months ago

Has anyone commented on the lack of paw pads on Hobbes hands?

I read that Bill Watterson originally inked in pads on Hobbes hands in the early strips but thought they distracted from what he was doing with his hands. That is why he has pads on his feet (to give him more of a feline character) but not on his hands.
HappyLynx said, 5 months ago

Guys, why is everyone ignoring me?

calvin is not the brightest kid in the world
bmonk said, 5 months ago

Another inspiration might be the opening credits from one episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, where the big toe of the stomping foot cracks off, gets buried, and is dug up where it is mounted in a museum as the nose of a previously unknown elephantoid creature…

HappyLynx said, 19 minutes ago

“Guys, why is everyone ignoring me?

“calvin is not the brightest kid in the world”

I think he’s quite bright; he just doesn’t have a lot of common sense. Or discipline.
SQUIDBREAKER said, 5 months ago

If the ants were sucked up by the coke bottle/ ant eater, they wouldn’t survive all the chemical warfare. I think I might spray around my house with Coca-cola and see if it eliminates the ant problem.

(MONTE PYTHON - Ministry of silly walks is hilarious)

The coke bottle is not dead ….. it’s sleeping. IT’s taking a nap! (more MP humor)
pookid54 said, 5 months ago

The Gods Must Be Crazy is a BRILLIANT film!!! Still holds up after all these years.

CARMY LOL!!!! Great comment!!!!
Wildmustang1262 said, 5 months ago

Scoffs! That bottle Calvin found was a pop soda , not a skull. Sheeshhh! Quit imagining about something that was supposed to be.
In Virginia City, NV, they found very old bottles and other things from the grounds since the buildings were burned down long time ago. It was very interesting to find something very old while they dig up the grounds out there.
SQUIDBREAKER said, 5 months ago

Hey - where’s all the ‘stay on topic’ goofs today? They should be all over tabbylynn! And how do you type big like that?

I don’t want to type big - I would be accused of bringing attention to my off-topic comments.
BirishB said, 5 months ago

Why Calvin really looks surprised in the last panel. A thoughtful re-reading:

As Calvin unearthed the Coke bottle, he realized its familiarity. And then it all became apparent. He became enraged as he realized that he had been on his home planet all along; and that he was merely a captive soul on …

… The Planet of the Parents.
SQUIDBREAKER said, 5 months ago

Happy Lynx - Everyone is ignoring you because they think you are an electric fence or a guy who likes golfing a lot. People are suspicious of both.

But I am glad you are posting.
Nick V said, 5 months ago

If an animal actually had a skull like that, I’d be a bit curious as to the original geography of the area. No eye sockets, no jaw bone, no ear openings… must’ve not needed any of those organs.
C Red said, 5 months ago

Actually, Calvin’s skull is quite bizarre itself!
Man, I love Coke.
C Red said, 5 months ago

“As Calvin unearthed the Coke bottle, he realized its familiarity. And then it all became apparent. He became enraged as he realized that he had been on his home planet all along; and that he was merely a captive soul on …
… The Planet of the Parents.”

– BirishB, that doesn’t make any sense.
Coffee-Turtle said, 5 months ago

The boy sees not the coke bottle, but whatever his imagination is limited to.
green_engineer said, 5 months ago

HappyLynx - I can only guess you were expecting a reply to yesterdays Garfield? If so, I’ve answered it for you.

And Calvin is quite a smart kid, reminds me of Bart Simpson, street smart but brain apprears to freeze when at school.
BirishB said, 5 months ago

C Red … grow an imagination … and maybe it will.

Glad your here to police the comments, though …
RAZOR09 said, 5 months ago

Ok Happylinks , it’s not about common sense or intelligence , it’s about imagination. The stuff that makes the world that much more interesting thru the eyes of children. Unfortunately , we as adults sometimes lose that magical quality with the passing of the years. Thank God for people like Bill Watterson and their ability to remind us of these simpler times in our lives. Personally , I’d like to see this progress to a bit of a rub and genie appearance!! Whattya think guys??
pomy2191 said, 5 months ago

prasrinivara - im from India and saw these kind of Coke bottles today in a mall!!they are never gonna go away from here
thats some great imagination of calvin’s.the mouth is like an anteater
theIrishman said, 5 months ago

Hey All! New guy here. :) Love this strip, always reminds me of digging in our backyard garden as a kid. I would try to piece together rocks hoping that they were bones of dinosaurs. Keep trying Calvin you might get luckier than me.
cwreenactor said, 5 months ago

Definitely, “The Gods Must Be Crazy”!!!
ratlum said, 5 months ago

Keep digging it could be a tooth from some thing really big
prasrinivara said, 5 months ago

pomy2121, I think I know exactly when the classic coke-bottle will disappear from India–about 30 years after a total stop of production of the Ambassador car!

LOL
grazer said, 5 months ago

Sorry guys, I’m with Hobbes on this one….it’s an old anteater skull.