Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

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DreamScourge said, 2 months ago

We all would
Margueritem said, 2 months ago

You nailed it, Calvin.
mroberts88 said, 2 months ago

Truer words were never spoken.
VistaBill said, 2 months ago

When you have a kid like Calvin, put him to work so he can appreciate what his dad does.
sjoujke said, 2 months ago

Actually dad’s probably looking forward to going to work just to get away from him.
baslim_the_begger said, 2 months ago

Calvin, you didn’t really want anything for your birthday or for Christmas, did you?
thesandor said, 2 months ago

Me, I would find it to be a great honor merely to know Calvin, whatever trouble he may cause…… I’d be like “Calvin soaked me with a hose! I get to be the subject of one of his infamous pranks! Hurray!”
vibjyor said, 2 months ago

I would love to have a self realized kid like Calvin.
Johanan Rakkav said, 2 months ago

Self-realized? Quite the opposite, this kid’s dwelling so far in his own psychic Shadow that he doesn’t even understand his own genuine needs, let alone anyone else’s.

The whole point of Bill W.’s humor is that Calvin isn’t self-actualized, or anything like it. Calvin enables us to look at our own selfishness from a safe distance and laugh at it. And because Calvin’s particular selfishness is that of an ENFP in training, it’s all the funnier for that.
Dino-1 said, 2 months ago

I worked for many years from 5:00AM-1:00PM as what you would call a “gopher” for a hospital’s Medical Records department. I got everything ready before everyone arrived at their jobs at 8:00AM and 9:00AM including stocking the break room and making coffee. I had four bosses that kept me running all day for their needs and I helped the girls in the office catch up on things and the doctors finish their charts. I knew everyone’s job so if someone was sick or on vacation I could cover for them. When we created the job together I negotiated the hours to help them as well as to give me time to commute back home a hour and start dinner and meet my son’s school bus. I loved my job but never got used to getting up in the dark at 3:00AM and never seeing the sun until I went home. I decided one day to enlist a couple different friends to walk at our 15 minute breaks outside everyday around the hospital buildings. There’s nothing like fresh air and sunshine to brighten your day.
Superfrog said, 2 months ago

One day Calvin, you’ll turn into your dad.
Leonardeuler said, 2 months ago

Calvin, mind your words please, or Santa will pass you by on the sixth of december.
donboyer said, 2 months ago

I’ve based my entire life on Calvin’s teachings. Probably explains why I live on the beach in Hawaii.
LX013 said, 2 months ago

I’d hate to have a kid like me!
grazer said, 2 months ago

Which island you on, donboyer??
Calvin’s also responsible for my running away to Kauai.
alisid said, 2 months ago

hahaha - cheeky bastard ! love him to bits !
vibjyor said, 2 months ago

Rakkav,

I meant that in this strip at least he realizes and is aware how much of a pest he is.
Lewreader said, 2 months ago

Someday Calvin, “Hey, how’d I become a dad?”
cleokaya said, 2 months ago

Calvin has my attitude on life. Enjoy it while you can.
Puddleglum2 said, 2 months ago

“The Best is Yet to Come”
wndrwrthg said, 2 months ago

I bet dad wished they lived in Dickens time.
humormehere said, 2 months ago

I’m an ENFP and can tell you Calvin would be (if, of course he were real) either be a shining or a falling star (or both)
Richard said, 2 months ago

I almost totally identify with Calvin, up to, and including a teddy bear I called Gildersleeve who was my childhood mentor, he was with me while I served overseas.
Herocoder said, 2 months ago

I’m sure thats why Dad loves his job even on such a sunny day .. ;-)
♠Lonewolf♠ said, 2 months ago

Dad is old by the time he gets home anyhow!!
Jaddis said, 2 months ago

Looks like Bill Watterson took Calvin’s counsel to heart – he quit his job inventing new Calvin antics and for all I know, is enjoying the weather.
Patrick1946 said, 2 months ago

Calvin will one day have a kid and his Dad will have his revenge. The role of Grandparent has this great advantage - you spoil the little rotters rotten - then give them back to their parents …..
jrbj said, 2 months ago

I think there are still cultures where on a certain day you sacrifice children like Calvin to the gods in the hope that they look upon your favorably. Or perhaps that’s just wishful thinking on my part.
Devonshade said, 2 months ago

What a rotten, rotten little kid,..
BC13 said, 2 months ago

sjoujke
That is true, since he has contemplated even going to work on week-ends.
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Chear up Dad. What goes around comes around. Sooner than you think, he’ll be grown up and having to go to work and come home to a little monster like himself. Hehehe!
Fer Lefer said, 2 months ago

Calvin, kid; are you kidding?
Macushlalondra said, 2 months ago

Maybe Dad will plot his revenge on you while he’s driving in all that traffic Calvin. He will come up with a way to really get even. Remember he can still fool you sometimes. And I love that!
bald 716 said, 2 months ago

i’ve been told that i was a kid like you calvin
before i retired, i called in sick on several times if i thought it would be a nice day to take off and head to the beach
Stede_Bonnet said, 2 months ago

As a teenager, I recall my Dad saying, “Just wait till you’re my age. You won’t think you’re so smart.” Two decades later, I awoke to realize that I now was the age that Dad had been. So I called my Dad and he conceded that in hindsight it was clear that everything that I said and believed as a teen was 100% spot on. I was that smart. Sometimes adults need to heed the wisdom of youth.
Wiseguy411 said, 2 months ago

What happens when you have a kid like Calvin (or two) ???

Oh and Stede_Bonnet …

Youth is wasted on the young.
kab2rb said, 2 months ago

Doesn’t dad have vacation he could take to be with Calvin? Good way to bond with his son.
BC13 said, 2 months ago

kab2rb
They were on a family camping trip a few weeks ago. Dad’s glad to be back at work now after that disaster.
Autumnglory said, 2 months ago

I use C&H to help my sixth grade students with grammar and making connections to literature… this should spark some pretty cool discussions!

By the by - if anyone has old C&H collections they wouldn’t mind donating to a classroom, my kids can’t get enough of them. They’re being read so much that they fall apart!!!! E-mail me if you’ve got some to spare… my school is in Connecticut.
Coffee-Turtle said, 2 months ago

I remember those days… a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
Yukoner said, 2 months ago

What is ENFP?

And Calvin is proud of his own behaviour.
GretchensMom said, 2 months ago

I know it’s a terrible thing to say but … . .

If I had a kid like Calvin, I’d be chomping at the bit to go to work each and every day just to get away from him! Long commute in heavy traffic? I’d ENJOY the peace and solitude of finally being away from him and his smart mouth for a few hours before HAVING to return home and listen to all that exasperating nonsense all over again until his bedtime!!! Heck, I’d even volunteer to work weekends (with no pay!) if I had to!!!

Poor Mom! Home with him all day long by herself when he’s not in school!!!!! She’s a better woman than I’d be, that’s for sure! I’d have to put him in day-care and get a job to get away from him if I were her … except no day-care would take him after the first day … just like they can’t find anyone to baby-sit him for ANY amount of money except poor Rosamond! (How hard up must SHE be for the money that she’s the only one willing to take on that little monster anyhow???!!!)
jtpozenel said, 2 months ago

Calvin’s right. I just took an early retirement in December. Looking back, it all seems like a bad dream, (though sometimes I still have nightmares about it.)
ratlum said, 2 months ago

How old is Calvin ??
You start to think that way about 50 ish
Dino-1 said, 2 months ago

I think somebody needs a time out!
glitterygal07 said, 2 months ago

Calvin’s parents think things are nuts now, they should just wait and see when he is a teenager.. then things will go really really really really crazy
bmonk said, 2 months ago

Grandchildren are parents’ revenge on their children. Wait till Calvin Jr. comes along…
Trisha Evenstar said, 2 months ago

LMAO!!!
rebbyshy1 said, 2 months ago

yes i would too calvin but luckily there’s the mother’s curse “i hope when you have children they act the same way you do now!” worked for so many generations and still going ^_^
cholldekkgher stenst... said, 2 months ago

SMACK him into the middle of next week. By that all this will have passed.
Guilden_NL said, 2 months ago

I remember when this originally ran. Oh boy, I wasn’t that old then but knew what was coming. It didn’t make me laugh then, and it makes me want to cry now. Truth is painful!