Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 22, 2015

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    BE THIS GUY  about 9 years ago

    All I can say about this one: It’s perfect!

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    Alexander the Good Enough  about 9 years ago

    … or to act like far too many Congresscritters.

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    BE THIS GUY  about 9 years ago

    You have your demons, we have ours.

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    GROG Premium Member about 9 years ago

    But you couldn’t pay me enough to tune in.

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    alviebird  about 9 years ago

    Apparently, internet comment pages are filled with would-be radio hosts.

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    japollo Premium Member about 9 years ago

    I didn’t know Watterson smoked that stuff.

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    William Reynolds  about 9 years ago

    Love it! Out of the mouth of babes.

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    Hobbes Premium Member about 9 years ago

    …………………………………………..Click here (or stretch image): Ziggy (September 21, 1993)Click here: Non Sequitur (July 18, 2013)Click here: Peanuts (May 18, 1971)Click here: Peanuts (September 19, 1967)Click here: Peanuts (July 12, 1981)

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    neatslob Premium Member about 9 years ago

    Nah. For all his quirks, Calvin is basically a decent human being.

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    Carl R  about 9 years ago

    You can read this as Fox or NPR, whichever one rubs you the wrong way. It might be nice if you could get just the news/facts without the commentary, but the world doesn’t work that way anymore, and it probably never did work that way.

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    ajnotales  about 9 years ago

    The early years, the middle years, the later years…

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    Dour Scotsman  about 9 years ago

    And a generation later the result is the Tea Party.

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    zola115  about 9 years ago

    No change in 30 years then!

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    FishDog93  about 9 years ago

    You are thinking of al sharpton, jesse jaskson, & obama.

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    FishDog93  about 9 years ago

    No that would be MSNBC.

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    FishDog93  about 9 years ago

    Wow, Calvin has just perfectly describes obama! Easily the most divisive President in history.

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    FishDog93  about 9 years ago

    But if “military invasions” are so mad & evil in your mind, then Rush & Cheney should be heroes in your mind for refusing to serve ‘certified chicken hawks’. Now you can’t have it both ways.

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    Dave M  about 9 years ago

    Whether it’s Fox or MSNBC, Bill O’Reilly or Keith Olbermann. They’re all the same. They’re all far more interested in spouting divisive rhetoric than actually engaging in objective reporting.

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    Max Starman Jones  about 9 years ago

    I thought I smelled something when I booted up my computer this morning, and couldn’t quite identify it, but here it is: political jargon from both sides. It always stinks.

    But at least I got to see another great C&H. I should know better than to read the comments (or to comment — now I’ve got it all over me, too).

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    Charlie Fogwhistle  about 9 years ago

    Not that any of the comments on various comic strips are ever opinionated, divisive, self-righteous or condescending. We don’t do that here, do we.

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    ewalnut  about 9 years ago

    There used to be good storytellers on radio. My grandfather used to listen to one on WOR back in the 1960’s, just before bedtime. I don’t remember the guy’s name, but he had some great stories.

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    JLG Premium Member about 9 years ago

    This is exactly the kind of strip that makes me ambivalent about the second half of Calvin & Hobbes’ run. To me it’s heavyhanded and preachy, too much of a transparent soapbox with too little character standing between the reader and the author tract.

    And this is coming from someone who agrees with this (and most of Watterson’s other observations) about 95 percent of the time.

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    Packratjohn Premium Member about 9 years ago

    And this is many years before YouTube…..

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    eugene57  about 9 years ago

    Seems this strip strikes too close to home.I am often amused at how the strips from 30-40 years ago about conservatives are still current.(guess that is why they can so easily claim there is no such thing as evolution)

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    hippogriff  about 9 years ago

    Dave M: Obermann on MSNBC? Isn’t there some requirement that discussions at least be within a few months of current? MSNBC isn’t permitted to so much as mention “Green Party”, “Socialist Party”, and rarely “Libertarian Party”. They are just another Republicrat propaganda source.

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    SamElToro  about 9 years ago

    When this comic was published, Limbaugh was a nobody. Your only real major talk radio personalities in that era on a regional level were Alan Berg, Morton Downey, Jr., and Howard Stern. Berg and Downey were notorious for berating callers who disagreed with them.

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    amaryllis2 Premium Member about 9 years ago

    Touch’e, Calvin.

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    neverenoughgold  about 9 years ago

    Oh good grief!

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    Number Three  about 9 years ago

    Like a lot people don’t get paid for that already?

    xxx

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    Hobbes Premium Member about 9 years ago

    In the Peanuts strip I posted above, Charlie Brown talks about encouraging the exchange of different ideas. Sadly, it sounds out of date compared to the attack mode that is so common today.

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    eugene57  about 9 years ago

    bpullin said, about 1 hour ago“Rachel Maddow before the sex change?”What does your sex change have to do with Ms. Maddow. (you had a sex change????)

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    Pthhht!  about 9 years ago

    Calvin was born to be on MSNBC.

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    ttom2 Premium Member about 9 years ago

    It is funny why liberal talk radio shows never seem to make it, I wonder why that is?

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    davids.comments  about 9 years ago

    Bill could have drawn this one this morning!

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    QuiteDragon  about 9 years ago

    One might say the Huffington Post, though the media type is not the same and their reach is not as wide. I will say that their believability is about on par – or at least they are about as slanted. And I tend to score about as liberal and anti-authoritarian (libertarian) as one can get (The Political Compass), meaning that I prefer that even the ideology I agree with to be truthful.

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    Dtroutma  about 9 years ago

    Calvin has an imagination that includes space travel, dinosoaurs, physics, time travel, and NEW concepts and ideas, not always the same old garbage, and he doesn’t use hate speech, like nether, Rush, Savage, Rev. Al, Huckabee, or the other stuck in the muds, not even Pat Roberston:

    GIVE HIM A MIKE!

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    David_J Premium Member about 9 years ago

    Calvin just described Rush Limbaugh. I notice the original copyright date on the strip is 1995, Watterson knew what was coming.

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    Say What? Premium Member about 9 years ago

    Calvin could be Mark Levin. They both make selfish points and have the same vocal octave.

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    BE THIS GUY  about 9 years ago

    Even though C&H is apolitical 99% of the time, Bill Watterson did start out as a political cartoonist for the Cincinnati Inquirer.

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    Hobbes Premium Member about 9 years ago

    @leftwingpatriot: You have the first and last comment today.Well, you did have the last comment………..

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    Hobbes Premium Member about 9 years ago

    @leftwingpatriot: Thanks. (Oops……. I did it again.)

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    jbmlaw01  about 9 years ago

    Anyone who listens to Limbaugh more than one week will be converted to conservatism. Leftist-elitism is so 19th century.

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    Hobbes Premium Member about 9 years ago

    @leftwingpatriot: Heh heh.

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    blindavocado Premium Member about 9 years ago

    He would be perfect for Air America.

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    DevilDog2001 Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    It’s sad how true this is.

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