Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 22, 2013

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    BE THIS GUY  over 10 years ago

    Don’t hold your breath.

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    margueritem  over 10 years ago

    Or not, Calvin.

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    margueritem  over 10 years ago

    beautifully drawn.

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    sharpy  over 10 years ago

    no, even then it doesn’t make sense…

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    Last Rose Of Summer Premium Member over 10 years ago

    No it doesn’t make sense, even more so when you are old.

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    JP Steve Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Yes, a Song Sparrow I think. BW has drawn Song Sparrows in the strip before. The big brown spot on the breast is the giveaway.

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    MiepR  over 10 years ago

    <3

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    RoadTrip3500  over 10 years ago

    If you have the 10th anniversary book, Watterson explains the inspiration for this particular strip.

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    rentier  over 10 years ago

    Good bye, my friend and fly well!!

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    zman111666  over 10 years ago

    I was just surprised he didn’t poke it with a stick.

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    GPdancer  over 10 years ago

    I thought this was beautiful, and I’m glad it wasn’t funny. This is why I’ve always loved this strip so much — there’s so much more to it than humor.

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    Commentator  over 10 years ago

    Either he is wrong or else I never grew up.

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    watmiwori  over 10 years ago

    As they say in Acapulco, life is a beach and then you dive.

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    ziphobia  over 10 years ago

    Someone once said we all live to die

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    Phapada  over 10 years ago

    a beautiful on weekend……….

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    moronbis  over 10 years ago

    Life is what happens to you when you are busy making plans.Anon

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    bigbadwolf49  over 10 years ago

    This is one of the few strips where you want to take Calvin in your arms (and tell him: Not a chance, particularly not in the US, given the way you deal with Obamacare, treat your veterans, blow sugar up the rear of the rich, let the weak die by the roadside and continue to enact open racism (re Miss USA-tweets)). Come on, flamers!

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    Freckles75  over 10 years ago

    Beautiful work!

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    Rog22  over 10 years ago

    Windows—-Nature’s way of making smarter birds!

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    sbchamp  over 10 years ago

    Ricky Fitts approvesShoots video

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    Vince M  over 10 years ago

    C&H is consistently funny and creative, making its forays into serious issues that much more effective…compare and contrast to strips that are daily slogs through gloom and depression for its own sake. I won’t name names, they know who they are..

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 10 years ago

    We live our lives best if we are able to have a continual awareness of our mortality — but in the back of our minds, not in the front most of the time. If we see our lives as a gift that is fragile but precious, this helps us to see the lives of others in the same light.

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    rgcviper  over 10 years ago

    Surprisingly profound.

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Click here: B.C. (July 21, 2012)

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    KEA  over 10 years ago

    It makes sense when one ceases to believe it has to make “sense”. Accept reality for what it is and get on with it.

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    celeconecca  over 10 years ago

    no. it doesn’t make sense when we’re grown up, either.

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    sonnygreen  over 10 years ago

    I quote my grandmother. After listening to me complain or comment on something really petty, she would lean back in her chair, take a deep breath and say: “And then you die”.

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    Hoodude  over 10 years ago

    Life is nature’s way of keeping meat fresh…

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    cosman  over 10 years ago

    Live the moment like it’s your last.

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    thirdguy  over 10 years ago

    Still waiting, for that “making sense” thing to happen.

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    The Real Zarth Arn  over 10 years ago

    I’m 55. I’ll let you know when life starts making sense.

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    Number Three  over 10 years ago

    That is a beautiful drawing of the bird in the first panel.

    I agree with everything Calvin says too.

    Which is quite rare.

    xxx

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    PurpleIris  over 10 years ago

    Wonder if the folks at the Library know why his books are so popular all of a sudden……

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    realman  over 10 years ago

    Decades after the original release of this C+H came the song The Gull & I, poem by John William Carroll, music by Reuben Butchart & The Millworkers. The song sprang to mind after reading this time. I don’t think these comments allow links, so. . . listen free at reubenbutchart dot bandcamp dot com /track/the-gull-and-i

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    HappyDog/ᵀʳʸ ᴮᵒᶻᵒ ⁴ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘⁿ ᵒᶠ ᶦᵗ Premium Member over 10 years ago

    It sounds to me like Calvin already has it figured out. He just doesn’t realize it yet.

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    Vince M  over 10 years ago

    No matter how many times Suzy invites him.

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    pam Miner  over 10 years ago

    No, it never will.

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    JoeyCooler777  over 10 years ago

    Who the hell is talking about the tea party?

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    JoeyCooler777  over 10 years ago

    Anyway, I’m 23 and life makes sense to me. There are still a few unanswered questions I have, but mostly…I’m alright.

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    Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 10 years ago

    HATE? Kind of a strong word there, don’t you think? Esp. since I assume you never met these people in real life?

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    ShadowBeast Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Republicans and Democrats are Politicians way of dividing the people of the country against eachother while they rob them blind.

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    Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 10 years ago

    The beak looks like a Cardinal to me, and since it’s in black and white, it could be.

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    Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member over 10 years ago

    i wanna cry

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    Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member over 10 years ago

    It disgusts me how people can use a forum like this to spew political rants.

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    ratlum  over 10 years ago

    I love Calvin ,because it dose.

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    bmonk  over 10 years ago

    If growing up means losing your ability to grieve over a dead bird, I’m glad I never grew up.

    We found a dead kestrel recently. :(

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    Just flag Omnius and forget about him.

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    lizilu  over 10 years ago

    There are elements of comedy in all good Tragedies and elements of tragedy in all good Comedies (and comic strips).

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    lizilu  over 10 years ago

    Just kidding? Whew! Because I (in this “dream” state or whatever) cannot conceive awake-ness (i.e., consciousness) being equal to non-existence. If this is so, how can a “dream” ever exist, unless dreaming = consciousness = existence?

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    helen ferrx  about 9 years ago

    When a bird we’d

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    DragonKing  over 5 years ago

    this is the crossword bird!

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