Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 31, 2010

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    margueritem  over 13 years ago

    One must suffer for one’s art…

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    GROG Premium Member over 13 years ago

    It’s true

    Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠

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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  over 13 years ago

    Keep trying, Calvin…

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    Yukoner  over 13 years ago

    Hmm, has he invented Mr. Potatohead?

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    rentier  over 13 years ago

    That’s very true! And give us YOUR mercy!

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    COWBOY7  over 13 years ago

    Stay with it, Calvin. It can only go up from here!

    G’Morning Mike, Grog & Marg!

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    Dino-1  over 13 years ago

    That’s the hardest thing is when a child hands you their drawing proudly and they ask you what you think about it. You don’t want to stifle their creativity because they may not want to practice their skills further. My granddaughter has caught on now and usually tells me up front what it is so I can help her to improve it. If she’s lucky she’ll get my Mom’s or my son’s talent so I encourage her everyday to keep it up!

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    brekkyjuice  over 13 years ago

    i hate telling kids what i think of their drawings… every time i say the wrong thing. “it’s a slug!” “no, it’s not. it’s me.” “oh. i knew that.” now i just say “that’s beautiful”

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    moronbis  over 13 years ago

    Just the fact that no one can understand you doesn’t mean that you are an artist.

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    paha_siga  over 13 years ago

    My older child has got into habit of writing in big letter on picture, what it is supposed to be. Makes being mom much easier.

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    Rakkav  over 13 years ago

    Christopher Robin (Milne), son of A.A. Milne, had the same problem, Calvin. According to a then-famous interview, at the dinner table he prayed, “and let these people” - the adults present - “understand about the dragon.”

    Amen.

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    violet_music  over 13 years ago

    everybody also say that their parents suck

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    GROG Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Oh?

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    Rakkav  over 13 years ago

    There is just so much wrong with that statement, isn’t there, Grog?

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    Rakkav  over 13 years ago

    cdward, if you’re out there, see my reply to you yesterday about the use of vowels in Hebrew.

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    vibjyor  over 13 years ago

    How true, ‘No one understands’ - including the artist himself !

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    Puddleglum2  over 13 years ago

    Calvin, maybe you need more passion. As Dear Abby said this morning, “Art without passion is mechanical drawing.”

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    cdward  over 13 years ago

    Regarding the comic, am I the only one who gets his art? I got in the habit of just saying, “Tell me about it!” the moment the kids gave a piece of art. I tended to say things like, “Oh, I like this one better than the last one” or even, “I don’t know, that one you did earlier was livelier.” Even had some framed.

    The real problem for us with not squashing creativity was the “creations” one of our sons made/makes which can be downright dangerous (if ingenious).

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    Tineli  over 13 years ago

    so true!

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    olmail  over 13 years ago

    well Calvin, you do seem to have done well at “drawing” out the erudite.

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    rentier  over 13 years ago

    It’s great art, when no one understands it!

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    Wiseguy411  over 13 years ago

    Puddlegum2 some literary advice about choosing your words …

    When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone,it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.’ … Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll (also known as Charles Dodgson)

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    lewisbower  over 13 years ago

    I have wonderful ideas in my head. When I put them on paper they look like Calvin drew them. Do I have a future in art? I can draw the clown and the pirate.

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    bacom65  over 13 years ago

    Is Dear Abby still around?? I thought she died.

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    oldnmoldy  over 13 years ago

    Puddlegum: I can’t decide if I think you are erudite or merely pedantic.

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    oletimer  over 13 years ago

    ho hum

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    moronbis  over 13 years ago

    Too much being made of CnH lovers and their style of commenting. Quoting Mother Teresa,”If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” It takes all kinds of people to make a world. If I could find everyone else like I am then I would prefer to be a martian. Cannot we appreciate the variety?

    I am no erudite. I do not even know what does it mean.

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    LeslieAnne  over 13 years ago

    Puddleglum: In case you didn’t see from yesterday’s comments… Thank you for the compliment on my name, and I like yours as well… I assume it is taken from CS Lewis? Classic.

    Oldnmoldy: I have only been around for a few days, but I haven’t seen anything in Puddleglum’s discussions that would be considered ostentatious. But maybe that’s just me!

    moronbis: I think that the discussion is a way to appreciate the variety. If we can’t discuss and disagree on our differences then we might as well all be the same!

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    bmonk  over 13 years ago

    No one understands Calvin’s work–even he doesn’t!

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    mike.firesmith  over 13 years ago

    **Good morning Marg! Good morning Fran and Kizzzy! Good Morning L’Wolf! Good Morning Grog!**

    I wonder if that was one of Watterson’s early drawings?

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    Sylvannis  over 13 years ago

    lol…

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    ratlum  over 13 years ago

    Sorry folks I like my little friend and his teddy bear ,for what I read and chuckle at. You guys and gals must be missing that. Calvins problem with his drawing reminds me of my attempts,still cant draw.

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    Rakkav  over 13 years ago

    No, we don’t miss that by and large, ratlum. We just go on to other things from there. :)

    Too much Puddleglum2 in one day, however, does tend to loosen everyone else’s philosophical tongues. :))

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    JanLC  over 13 years ago

    bacom65, “Abigail Van Buren” is still around as far as I know. It was her twin sister “Ann Landers” who died. The Dear Abby column has been taken over by “Abby’s” daughter. The twins were Esther Pauline and Pauline Esther Lederer. I don’t remember which one was which, though I think Esther was “Ann” and Pauline was “Abby”.

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    mblase75  over 13 years ago

    Easiest day’s work Bill Watterson ever put in.

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    billdi Premium Member over 13 years ago

    serial demonstrations of one’s erudition and knowledge of grammar and usage on a comics comment board are kind of sad, kind of lame.

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    Frankr  over 13 years ago

    Ann Landers is dead. Her sister Abigail Van Buren is 92 and suffering from Alzheimers, but they are both still writing their daily advice columns. Now THAT’S dedication!

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    agpeter  over 13 years ago

    I’m really enjoying the literate and literary discussion today! If this keeps up, I’ll have to haul my laptop outside to the hammock under the locust tree and lay me down in a proper environment where I can absorb all these deep, erudite thoughts.

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    ladywolf17  over 13 years ago

    I agree that statement is definitely true.

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    ellisaana Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Well, of course…its a picture of Calvin in a Mr Potato Head costume.

    To Johanan - there is very little ‘regular’ about English. It is such a mongrel language. Everything sticks to it.

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    lazygrazer  over 13 years ago

    Calvin draws every bit as good as Bill Watterson does….and vice versa come to think of it.

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    kab2rb  over 13 years ago

    bacom65 for dear Abby you can google it column still continues the daughter has taken over.

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    khpage  over 13 years ago

    Hang on to your drawings, Calvin. If you grow up to be famous they should be worth a fortune when you’re fifty or sixty years old, if inflation hasn’t robbed them of their value in the meantime….

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    whims  over 13 years ago

    Isn’t snow his preferred medium, anyway?

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    harrietbe  over 13 years ago

    When I was Calvin’s age, a teacher told me that I had musical talent, but that art was not my strength. I believed her and went on to enjoy two musical careers, one in performance and one in the business end of it.

    After I retired, I decided to take an art class. Much to my amazement, I can draw and love doing it. A new world has opened to me. I have some regret that I didn’t discover this ability sooner, but it is great fun to be a beginner and to explore my artistic potential.

    Who knows, Calvin… maybe you’ll find more success if you wait awhile.

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    Gretchen's Mom  over 13 years ago

    JanCinVV said: bacom65, “Abigail Van Buren” is still around as far as I know. It was her twin sister “Ann Landers” who died. The Dear Abby column has been taken over by “Abby’s” daughter. The twins were Esther Pauline and Pauline Esther Lederer. I don’t remember which one was which, though I think Esther was “Ann” and Pauline was “Abby”.

    “Ann Landers” was Esther “Eppie” Pauline Friedman Lederer. She died in June, 2002. Her column was then taken over by her (2) editors and renamed “Annie’s Mailbox.”

    “Abigail Van Buren” or “Dear Abby” was Eppie’s twin sister, Pauline “Popo” Esther Friedman Phillips. She retired in 1995 with the onset of Alzheimer’s disease (and is still alive as far as I know) . That’s when her daughter, Jeanne Phillips, took over her mother’s column and owns the legal rights to the “Dear Abby” pen name.

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    Gretchen's Mom  over 13 years ago

    Calvin, if the weird and confusing pictures Picasso painted can be worth millions of $$$, then so can yours someday! Remind your mother of this so that she’ll hold onto them for you in preparation of that day!!!!!

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    gofinsc  over 13 years ago

    A dead person is still writing an advice column?

    It’s impressionist, Calvin. No matter what it is, it’s how it appears to you, and that’s perfect.

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    Puddleglum2  over 13 years ago

    A Vonnegut by any other name would smell as suspicious.

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    Puddleglum2  over 13 years ago

    Wiseguy411, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. The rest of the year was not so good. Actually, he became just ‘a shell of his former self’. Humpty lost face, not to mention the rest of his body. Ultimately, the yolk was on him. ‘They’ couldn’t put Humpty together again. I can’t put his words together either, to make any sense. If a word is just what he chooses it to mean, then it doesn’t matter what word he uses, but nobody will know what he chooses it to mean unless there is exposition. Since you didn’t say what you choose your comments to mean, I will assume that you are only being facetious.

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    TN-REDD  over 13 years ago

    Kinda looks like Spaceman Spud

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    avonsalis  over 13 years ago

    Picasso’s childhood drawings (by age 5, anyway) were brilliantly observant and astonishingly talented. At 16 he was winning adult art awards with painstaking, inspired classical-themed works in oil. “Science and Charity” is not only a timeless work of great art, but it’s psychologically and even spiritually deep in the nuances of the facial expressions.

    Picasso said it took him a lifetime to unlearn how to draw properly. By age 30 he had done the most revolutionary work of all time (Demoiselles d’Avignon), but he kept inventing new stuff - even if it was as simple as mounting the perfect handlebar on the perfect bicycle seat at the perfect angle to make a very expressive, totally convincing goat head.

    Anybody who over-uses the word “genius” should spend at least one minute looking (really looking!) at Picasso. Any Picasso.

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    holeycow  over 13 years ago

    put put put put…

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