Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 02, 2012

LOL! Hobbes is so modest, hoping to make Calvin feel good.

I think that the model is a display of Hobbes suppressed feelings.

The model of Hobbes will scare the wits out of Calvin.

My artistic skills were about on par with Calvin’s. I think everything I attempted to make out of clay eventually turned into a bowl.

Reminds me of the Bill Cosby sketch where, as a kid, he messed up a what-not shelf so he put two grooves in it to make it into an ashtray. Ha!

wowww Calvin’s cooking …

I couldn’t even make a half descent ash tray. Wait until Calvin’s eyes sees what Hobbes did.

Hobbes is a genius, let him work, Calvin, you’ll never reach this! Certainly you have other qualities!I play organ and I have an acquaintance, who does it much better than I, I can train all day long, it doesn’t help! People are not equal, some do certain things better!

I think Hobbes watched “Alien” one time too many…

So…….. Calvin’s imagination has more artistic skill than Calvin has, and without him knowing it?…….. Calvin actually created the tiger sculpture behind his back without looking at it yet? Or……….?Today’s strip is one of the rare cases where Bill Watterson signs his name in white on a black background. Looks like a lot more work to outline the white letters in black, when he could have just signed in the 3rd panel using black letters. Perhaps he preferred to have his signature under Hobbes’s tiger rather than under Calvin’s “bowl?”

Click here: Peanuts (1954)

<< JohnnyDiego said: "I once made a B1 stealth bomber out of a hunk of clay. But then I couldn’t find it. >>Hi JohnnyDiego. Very clever, slipping that joke in under the radar, to see whether it would fly.After you made the model, maybe you shouldn’t have tried throwing it to see if it would fly.

Don’t eat it and don’t put it in your hair!

Maybe he just signed it in white after he painted the table black and let it dry….if it had to dry. What medium did he cartoon in? pencil? ink? crayon?

Why would you make it so much more difficult than it is? Most of my artwork in clay was fingerprints.

It’s whatever you want it to be Calvin. Some more work and it’ll be a great paperweight.

I wanted to make an kiln baked ashtry for my Camel smoken parents when we did this in 1st or 2nd grade…the teacher HATED the idea…so I changed it to a little cream pitcher….my parents always drank their coffee black but they loved it…now it’s on my desk holding pens…..

@Commentator: Bill Watterson made pencil sketches for his strips and then used India Ink. The white signature has fatter lines than his normal black signature, so I was assuming he had sketched the signature in pencil and then inked around it. Don’t know how he actually did it.

Even child prodigies practice. :-)

I still have a “bowl” my 51 year old son made. It’s been used as an ashtray.

The creative process summed up in four panels!

It reminds me of teaching High school art – for those looking for an easy credit.

i like cheesecake

Oh my, reminds me of so many art classes where a clay project started out promising, but then turned into a boat anchor. :/

The one time I had a class that used modeling clay, it was made of asbestos. No ash tray made there ever burned …

Hobbes is a model of decorum, but his model isn’t!

So Hobbes created a tiger in his own image; in the image of Hobbes created he him.

Hobbes is a model of ‘consistency’, but it doesn’t look that way!

@Hobbes,That Peanuts reminds me of the Drabble where Norman is blowing ordinary bubbles.Patrick: “Can (may) I try it?”Norman: “Sure(ly), Patrick! Just make sure you get the right amount of bubble fluid, and then hold the wand right about…”Patrick blows a completely formed animal bubble!Norman: “Yeah, that’s pretty good.”

I like the sharing attitude.

Everything I made started out and ended up being an ash tray..

Wow. Hobbes is really good. Look at that likeness of him, that he made. Very good – way to go Hobbes. Yours isn’t too bad Calvin. Your mom & dad will like it.

P.S. to my original comment. Hobbes likeness of himself looks a little angry & fierce. Better look out Calvin. He might be expressing his inner feelings toward you.

Dude your bowl is amazing!

Awww, That’s adorable!

xxx

I got pretty good at elephant heads, and mice, cats, among other animals in clay. But I’m more in Charlie Brown’s class of card houses than in Linus’.

yeah, I made one of those around 1973. It was confiscated by the MP’s.

Odd that Calvin seems to be able to make very complex sculptures from snow, but clay just won’t shape for him.

Now that he’s gotten his clay tiger all painted and everything Hobbes will have to “fire” it. Oh. that’s right, the fireplace in the living room will do nicely. Why does Calvin’s house continue to exist?

Hobbes made that in about one second, Lol

Why is the table black in the first, second and third panels, but white in the third?

Next strip doesn’t Hobbes want a smock?SMOCKSMOCKSMOCKSMOCKSMOCK!

Wow. How pleasant Calvin could get?

There are far too many excellent comments here for me to reply to, so I leave you with this:

People who make clay bowls shouldn’t have tigers.

“….I’ve got a pretty good bowl or something going here…” HAH!! Even Calvin isn’t sure at this point what he’s created!! Martian rock, perhaps?

Just being nice.

Calv-ie i know how you feel! Clay is not my soulbird either….