Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 03, 2016

And yet, she will sit next to him tomorrow.

Live and learn, Susie.

Lunch may be fun for Calvin, but it’s rarely filling.

Calvin and lunch; what an imagination…

Always fun (and sometimes terrifying) to enter someone else’s fantasy. After all, occasionally they have to be in ours.

What you call “Bologna” inItaly is originally called “Mortadella” and when I was a kid was the cheaper charcuterie and the legend said that the ingredients were a mix of porky and donkey meat

Wait till they’re married, and then, as the Bacon And Hobbes strip makes clear, Susie will be a female Calvin.

Since leadingedge commented on yesterdays strip, I will follow his lead.About the position of the sun and moon. I once knew a guy, 35 years old who I discovered had never been outside at night where there were no city lights.We were driving through New Mexico on a clear moonles beautiful night. He asked me if the Milky Way was something you could actually see, or was it and imaginary thing like the constellations. I stopped the car and told him to get out and look up.He was completely blown away. Our galaxy put on a good show that night.And talking about the mistakes in art, I once saw a very nice painting of a pioneer farmstead at night. The artist had painted random spots of light for the stars, completely to the horizon. Here in central Texas, cowboy culture is rampant. Artwork regularly shows wagons with drivers on the wrong side, no brakes and the artist has no idea what the running gear looks like. There are wagons all over the place, all the artist has to do is observe.The artists try to depict old tools and implements with disasterous results.

The point is: Calvin makes lunch fun for all the kids. Every unseen kid in that lunchroom is watching and laughing and looking forward to next break time.Taught kids like him, and was alternately frustrated and entertained by them, and thankful for the break in the occasional days that seemed to stretched forever. Rave on Calvin!!!

Calvin doesn’t know what his mom packed him for lunch? We always make special requests in our house

A kid used to put his banana in the sandwich bag and put that in the paper bag and beat on it till it spewed out a tear in the bag like a kitten being born. Wasn’t me, I like bananas.

Why does Suzy keep sitting with that nutball?

This one should be in the cartoonist’s Hall of Fame.

Calvin’s been known to be attacked by his own oatmeal in his own house, in those cases he wasn’t showing off for the other kids. In fact, except for Susie, Calvin would just as soon ignore all the other kids. (Of course it’s kind of hard to ignore Moe…….)

Those plastic cafeteria sporks won’t help you much.

Rampant imagination.

Bags of evil have taken over.

“You are what you eat”

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I had a brother-in-law who lived on that stuff, myself I hated that stuff and the only way I could eat that stuff was to fry it first.

I try to act like Calvin sometimes…

Then my wife sees me and just walks away shaking her head!

I guess he bagged that lunch

Front and center for the lunchtime sideshow…..

To be Calvin’s age and entertain ourselves with practically anything. And Susie, why are you complaining? You always sit besides him no matter what he does.

Calvin will probably have trouble getting dates when he is older.