Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 18, 2014

The boy has an imaginative mind — DUH!

Van Gogh was also ahead of his time

And ended up in the septic field? =-O

Better the nose than elsewhere.

If I were Calvin’s mom, I would think his self portrait is hilarious and I would defend his creativity to Miss Wormwood. Of course if I were Calvin’s mom, I would also be on top of his homework and make sure he understands what he is supposed to do, sitting with him if necessary in order to complete it. I wouldn’t just leave it all up to him.

A self-portrait. How cute!

Of course it’s much more entertaining the way it is, with Hobbes helping Calvin with his homework!

And you expected something else, Mom?

Our act started at the bottom and went downhill.— Allan Sherman, 1924-1973

Here’s Lucy in her early days, one year after she was introduced into Peanuts.Click here: Peanuts (April 22, 1953)Click here: Peanuts (November 24, 1953)

Click here: Peanuts (May 3, 1964)

parent teacher meeting, do they still have those? and, there wasn’t a security officer making sure nothing went out of hand, no altercations between adults? nothing about test scores and common core discussions?

Truth is hard to bear!

@uniquename: Yes, attacking the schools without getting involved is like attacking the government without getting involved. We elect government leaders and we elect the school board. So, if we are simply cynical non-participants, there is a sense in which we are attacking ourselves for our own non-involvement.

Calvin’s self-portrait sounds like one of the aliens in his Spaceman Spiff adventures. Maybe he misunderstood the assignment – he never really pays attention anyway – to what Mrs Wormwood is saying.

Yeah, that’s him!

And on the bottom of the picture was a note from the teacher: “See me!”

Desperated Mom!!

Anyone could pick Calvin out of a lineup of selfies.

Now that is a Calvin window sticker I would like for my car.

Down hill perhaps but not if it were Stephen King or George Lucas or Steven Speilberg as a little kid!

Calvin and his pet tiger Hobbes are playing with Uncle Max when Calvin’s dad returns from a meeting with Calvin’s teacher.

I think that’s funnier and cuter.

When I started school, one of the first assignments was to draw and color a picture of our home and yard with trees, grass, etc..The teacher sent home a note along with my “drawing”, wondering why I colored the lawn and trees red instead of green. It turns out I am color blind on reds and greens. Nobody told me trees and grass were green; I thought the red crayon matched what I remembered, so I colored it red…

Now that I’ve GOT to see!

xxx

Years ago, my mom found a picture I had coloured for school. She laughed at the fact that I coloured the carrot purple. It turns out that there are purple carrots, and they have more nutrients that the more popular orange ones.…WHO’S STUPID NOW?

Twenty years down the line, they’ll look back at this moment and say to their son, “Well…, you always did have a creative mind.”

Do these kids every get creeped out by those kinda pictures?

Or Calvin’s mom was blaming Miss Wormwood.

When I was in kindergarten the teacher gave us pictures to color and I got a sheep. I colored it black because I had seen a flock of sheep once with one little black lamb in its midst. I remember feeling so incredibly proud of my coloring job. The next day however when the teacher handed the drawings back, I noticed the coloring had gone outside the lines in many places and I was completely dismayed at what a crappy job I had done. I was so disappointed in myself.

These kids are 6, no parent is going to recognize their kid’s self-portrait. The only difference between them will be what color the stick figure is. Calvin’s mom had an advantage on this one.

My mother would’ve said, “Well, at least he’s creative.”

Must’ve been easy to recognize, eh?