Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

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margueritem said, about 1 month ago

LX013 I love your wild rose.
kpeiyin said, about 1 month ago

Was Hobbes implying that Calvin was clumsy? Stupid?
johnnydoc5 said, about 1 month ago

Checkmate Hobbes!
Fer Lefer said, about 1 month ago

Bah! just details!

Good morning, everybody!
VistaBill said, about 1 month ago

I’m surprised that Calvin remembered to put his pants on!
Yukoner said, about 1 month ago

But Calvin, if you don’t go to school you can’t grow up and be like your Dad, Weeelll, maybe you do have a point.

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
Mark Twain
paperbucket said, about 1 month ago

Einstein couldn’t tie his tie. Calvin uses words like fallacy in first grade, so maybe he is a genius too.
Andy said, about 1 month ago

Good one Yukoner….
Calvin is virtually the most intelligent boy of age 6 I know. He’s far beyond in thinking, how pants are put on is not crucial.
vibjyor said, about 1 month ago

Here is a joke I read in Readers’ Digest a long time back :

Kid comes back from school after his first day at school and the father anxiously asks ‘How was your day ? What did you learn ?’

Kid replies ‘I learnt ABCD. But it is not finished yet. I have to go back again tomorrow.’
LX013 said, about 1 month ago

Thank you Margue!
bigCandHfan said, about 1 month ago

3 months is plenty Calvin, which makes the remaining 11.75 years of school a waste of time..

but how did u get 11.5 years?? :)
does that say something?!! :)
cryptomaniac said, about 1 month ago

@Yukoner

That’s one of my fave quotes.

Sums up Calvin’s attitude pretty neatly.
anusach said, about 1 month ago

i just love Hobbes concern and his look!!!!
senseilance said, about 1 month ago
When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful,
a miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical.
And all the birds in the trees, well they’d be singing so happily,
joyfully, playfully watching me.
But then they send me away to teach me how to be sensible,
logical, responsible, practical.
And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable,
clinical, intellectual, cynical.
- Supertramp
cdward said, about 1 month ago

After our son’s first day of kindergarten, we asked him how it was, and he replied, “Perfect.”
The next morning when we got him up he asked, “Why do I have to get up so early?”
We said, “To go to school.”
He answered, “Again?”
Johanan Rakkav said, about 1 month ago

Classic ENFP-in-training, front to back.
TheSkulker said, about 1 month ago

For those who might not have seen it, there is an interview of Bill Watterson by John Campanelli at the Plain Dealer. It includes a picture of Bill - not all that unlike Calvin’s dad! The comments are interesting as well.

http://www.cleveland.com/living/index.ssf/2010/02/bill_watterson_creator_of_belo.html

Although I have to respect his choice to end the strip, I strongly disagree that he had or would have run out of new ideas. A mind such as his just does not run dry of creative juices!
propellermario said, about 1 month ago

…my point was that you need 100 more years of school” says hobbes
dkram said, about 1 month ago

How did Calvin get to the school bus with both his legs in one pant leg?

Tiny steps.

\\//_
Lewreader said, about 1 month ago

Ahhh, remember how nice it was to know everything. Well, maybe as a child I hadn’t quite learned the concept of grey.
jrbj said, about 1 month ago

Watterson can be very good at dry humor. This is a good example of it with what Hobbs is saying and the expression on his face in the last frame. Understating the obvious is always funny.
the_one_and_only_never said, about 1 month ago

Hobbes, I love your expressions!!! For a stuffed tiger you manage them pretty well!
Richard said, about 1 month ago

Y’know, if you want a peek into Watterson’s thoughts today hike over to this site where he was interviewed.
http://www.cleveland.com/living/index.ssf/2010/02/billwattersoncreator_of_belo.html
He has some real heavy and important things to say.
BuzzDog said, about 1 month ago

Sounds like Calvin is a budding Robert Fulghum fan!
Grog said, about 1 month ago

That was funny. How did he manage that?
Yukoneric said, about 1 month ago

Some parochial schools only go 8 years and the graduates are, on average, a whole lot better educated than those in the public system.
midiranger said, about 1 month ago

cdward - LOL!

Love Hobbes nonchalant eye roll in the last panel!
Stede_Bonnet said, about 1 month ago

It is a small mind that can only think of one way to wear a pair of pants.
grazer said, about 1 month ago

I was doing fine until they taught me to quit daydreaming and get serious so I could amount to something.
mexdr1958 said, about 1 month ago

Quintessential Calvin, quintessential Hobbes observation: The quintessential cartoon!!!
Macushlalondra said, about 1 month ago

Shame on Calvin’s mom for not teaching him how to put on a pair of pants. That’s not something the school should have to teach him. But it reminds me of when I was in kindergarten the teacher had all the kids come up to tie a shoe and I was the only one who could do it because my mom taught me stuff like that at home. She also taught me how to read when I was three and how to print. She refused to teach me handwriting though I begged her to. But I was pretty far ahead of the other kids. Thanks mom.
Vigilante de noche said, about 1 month ago

If Calvin had to put his pants back on and as he says “I fell down a lot” then I have one word… Belt.
Puddleglum2 said, about 1 month ago

It’s a “fallacy” that Calvin is smart; he might be intelligent, but not smart.
Calvin’s argument doesn’t have a leg on which to stand (to stand on). Don’t fall for it!
Puddleglum2 said, about 1 month ago

“How on earth did you get all the way to the bus stop…?”
“I fell down (on earth) a lot all the way to the bus stop.”
lobkiller said, about 1 month ago

bigCandH that’d be 11.66 years, school year is only 9 months long, MOST PLACES, hehe
Brother_James437 said, about 1 month ago

When you have a high IQ like Calvin must have, who needs common sence?
harrietbe said, about 1 month ago

Watterson must still be entertaining his artistic muse. I wonder what form it’s taking today. I’m just grateful that Calvin & Hobbs are still available to start my day with their quirky, insightful humor.
Susan001 said, about 1 month ago

He may not be able to put on his pants (why didn’t Mom or Dad help him?), but Calvin already knows more in his 6 years than school can teach him in 12 years.

School, YUCK!
McShikamoo said, about 1 month ago

Hobbes shouldn’t be so critical. He doesn’t need to think about clothes, he wears the same thing every day.
Yukoner said, about 1 month ago

Reading all these comments reminds me of one of my favourite songs by Paul Simon.

“When I think of all the cr@p I learned in High School, it’s a wonder I can think at all!”
Kodachrome by Paul Simon
ronaldmundy said, about 1 month ago

paul, it wasn’t his pants that were falling down.
Colonialgirl said, about 1 month ago

Only 11 3/4 years left ?????

Well, there are those that have to go to summer school to make up for what they didn’t learn in the other 3/4’s of a year
Aardvark359 said, about 1 month ago

Talk about perseverence in the face of adversity! Good job Calvin! I admire pluck!
♠Lonewolf♠ said, about 1 month ago

This one is a classic! I love it. Go hobbes!
♠Lonewolf♠ said, about 1 month ago

Very good song, Yukoner.
GretchensMom said, about 1 month ago

I don’t know what to say about a stay-at-home mom who doesn’t notice their child leaving the house for school with both feet through one pant leg!!!!!
Vigilante de noche said, about 1 month ago

Thank you “ronaldmundy” That’s what I get for reading CandH before I’ve had my coffee…
GretchensMom said, about 1 month ago

The Skulker: You’re absolutely right! Bill Watterson looks EXACTLY like Calvin’s dad (minus the mustache)! I wonder if Calvin’s mom looks like Bill’s wife, sister, or mother? Was Calvin modeled after his son or maybe a brother? I wish he weren’t so reclusive so that we could know more about him and how he was able to come up with all the wonderful ideas for this strip for so long.

It’s hard to believe it’s been 15 years since C & H ended. Given Bill Watterson’s constant stubbornness regarding marketing of any kind where C & H is concerned, it’s just a wonder that we still have a place to go on the internet where we can enjoy a daily dose of our precocious Calvin and his beloved stuffed tiger, Hobbes … but I’m so glad that we do!!!!
ratlum said, about 1 month ago

A very rich man is quoted as say his schooling was a waste of time in his life All 3 years of it
ratlum said, about 1 month ago

Bill Watterson might be commenting with us every day