Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 11, 2014

The principal and Calvin must be good friends by now.

I can’t believe it’s still the first day of school, before 8.30, and the erasers are chalky enough to clap!

What are you going to do for an encore, Calvin?! ;)

Yeah, that’s along the same line I was thinking.Have you ever seen him blush like that?

At least the scrum beings didn’t catch him.

About the 1940s. My grandmother had a lot of dresses which she made herself, and they all looked like that. A lot of women of her generation were young in the 20s. They gave up corsets and wore the flapper’s “chest band” instead of a bra (a wide piece of stiff grosgrain meant to cover your breasts and make you look totally flat-chested)…and never looked back. And the Women’s Liberationists thought they were the ones who invented bralessness!

Gonna be a LONG day!

Wow! Calvin’s day will be forever.

Twice within the space of 15 minutes?

Too bad you can’t lock up kids in jail.

Pigpen.

I wonder what today’s kids can use to produce the “Calvin Spaceman Spiff Smoke Cloud” when slapping dry marker board erasers together does nothing but make a soft noise. Not to long from now they won’t even have that as classroom more into the digital age and the “board” is projected to the kids viewing station. Oh for the days that a correctly angled bit of chalk would send out a noise that could put the entire classroom in pain. Fly on Calvin the day is young!

Calvin is so highly creative that the adults around him don’t know what to do with him. It would be interesting if Watterson would come back with a grown up Calvin, his creativity un-styfled, still dealing with people in his environment who don’t know how to deal with true creativity. I’m not saying this is likely to happen, but it would be great to have a new Watterson strip.

Clapping erasers — one of the things that was lost when schools switched over to whiteboards.

Thought be a stink bomb Calvin imagination was doing not erasure bomb. Principal and Calvin not good friends. Calvin needs a counselor instead of principal.

There is a white cloud here today too.Snow in the Black Hills. Yaaaaa.

Love the Spaceman Spiff Adventures… Calvin has such an excellent imagination…

One of these days, Calvin will be a great and creative leader of the free world!.If there still is a free world…

@Ray49FL … I think the expression is " … one steely-eyed missile man …"

Calvin’s imagination sure gets him into trouble.

xxx

Your imaginations just get you into trouble Calvin.

We now use white boards because chalk dust causes lung cancer. Sorry Calvin but your future is terminal.

Calvin and his pet tiger Hobbes are going to school. Hobbes has a wonderful dream that Mister Wormpills is in space.

Sent to the principal’s office, on the first day of school, TWICE within 15 minutes, and it’s not even 9:00. You’re in for a looooooooooooooooooooooooong year, Calvin.