Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 17, 2015

Yeah, like do a comic strip or something.

Starving Artist ring a bell….

Starving Artist ring a bell….

Welfare Calvin?

Perhaps he’s a Maynard G. Krebs in the bud!

I’m sorry but I have to say this…

WHEN WILL YOU STOP THIS MR. PRESIDENT?

Women have to work much in the household, than working outside the house for 40 hours a week AND the art, that is too much, so they must do it without art! ART needs a portion of work too, when you will do it well!!

Women who have a job with good payment can take someone else to do the housework, or some have help from their mother. When you have nothing from that, you must do it yourself!

Yeah, there are laws against that sort of thing, Hobbes. For the time being.

Most artists also need another job to support themselves. It’s the origin of the expression, “The work of art.”For example, in order to be a still-life painter, you may first have to put food on the table.Even when Michelangelo decided to paint the Sistine Chapel, he realized that he was too short to reach the ceiling without a scaffolding. So, before he could begin painting, he first had to support himself.

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Who knew Calvin is a left wing liberal. LOL!

@FishDog93: Please save the political attacks for the editorial cartoons on this site. Most of us come to Calvin and Hobbes each day to enjoy ourselves. We are conservative, liberal, moderate, religious, atheist, agnostic, American, European, Asian, etc. But we are here to share what we all have in common and make each other’s day a bit more enjoyable.

Clever, Hobbes! Very good, Ray49FL!

It’s only work if you don’t enjoy it.

It’s too bad Calvin’s “sidewalk art” cannot be saved for future generations. Can you imagine the excitement when a guest on Antique’s Roadshow displaying a piece of original sidewalk art created in the distant past, discovers their chunk of colored cement is actually priceless?

Regarding LeadingEdge’s DIY approach, I can relate to this concept. When I owned my hardware and power equipment business, I had many customers like “Edge” looking to perform their own repairs. They would come to us for help, and most of the time, we were able to see to it they completed the job correctly.

However, there were those occasions where the world would be a better place if the DIY’r never lifted a hammer, twisted a screwdriver, or squeezed a pair of pliers! For this reason, we always provided a list of skilled professionals for just such a contingency…

Job? Work? Don’t ya’ know there are child labor laws?

I got into technical work to earn enough money to pursue my various artistic inclinations. After forty years, I have reached the point where I can afford to keep my job… If you’re going to do art, you just have to go for it.

When I read a biography about Van Gogh, I was wondering the same thing. You can’t paint 24 hours a day. If your’re hungry, find a job and paint on your off hours.

Well, work is art so yes.

Calvin is so right— artists of the past never worked, they just marketed their names as brands. Just google all the merchandise labeled “picaso” or “michelangelo” or “van gogh”— they’re profiting even in their graves, Calivn!

The word “Work” is a curse word for those who don’t want to…. work. Just ask Andy Capp!

xxx

Q: What do you do?-A: I’m an actor (artist, musician….)-Q: Oh, which restaurant?

Hi rgcviper. At least we’ve had fewer political comments in recent weeks than at some times in the past.

“If an artist is starving, it’s probably because his/her “art” is not good enough to support him/her and they should switch to a new line of work that will, while their “art” becomes more like a hobby.”

What a load. There are so many artists how lived in poverty whose art now sells for millions. Case in point: Jasper Johns made $200 for his painting Three Flags. It now sells for over a million.

You tubers be like: Panel 4