Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 16, 2019

Hyping yourself will become so much easier in a few years when you can blog and tweet about yourself 24/7.

Must see television!

Just make sure you’re invited first, Calvin.

boy did he predict the future !

Calvin’s an expert at ignoring the first step. But even more today than when this first ran, he’s got a lot of examples of exactly what he’s aiming at: Celebrities. People who are famous for being famous.

Talk Shows are so last century. It’s “Reality Shows” now, Calvin.

At least he has got a plan and a goal.

Maybe it will be one of those shows where one guest loves tigers and the other hates tigers and they get into a fight.

You can be an influencer!

Here we have Hobbes, a stuffed toy tiger with more smarts than a six year old who spends ten years in the first grade. What’s this world coming to?

Calvin, you are the very first reality show on paper. It’s called Calvin and Hobbes.

As they say – when life gives you lemons, you make a Fredo!

You could start studyng to become Greta Thunberg : several months sailing the Ocean and no school for a year , sorry , she call it “sabbatical year” .

These days he’d be a “social media influencer” and maybe even go into politics.

Had this been published today, Calvin would have hyped himself via YouTube.

“We don’t need no education, we don’t need no thought control, no dark sarcasm in the classroom…..”

Considering when this was originally published, long, LONG before Trump, you have to give Bill Watterson credit for his psychic powers.

Very prescient.

Now I have Pink Floyd in my head….“We don’t need no education…..”

For all the things that have changed since 1989, so much has stayed the same.

Becoming knowledgeable and developing useful skills are both worthwhile, but they’re not necessarily the same.

You could run a TV show called The Apprentice, you vacuous little megalomaniac!

Too bad you were ahead of your time, Calvin!

Become a Social Media Influencer

Or just make a sex tape.

“Too much trouble” … says the kid who is an expert at it.

And 30 years later, that’s what we ended up with for a president.

That’s just about right.

The boy Kardashian.

So that’s where the Kardashians got the idea.

Why not? It worked out well for Kato Kalen (SP?)…

Quite a number of seemingly uneducated people make a fine living by talking.

Manage it right and you could end up President of the United States. Oh, right, it’s already been done.

Calvin’s learning !!!!! lol

That sudden realization that Calvin predicted the Kardashians before they were a thing…

oh, a Kardashian

Why not? It worked f…. nah, WAY too easy.

Hopscotch to the end! Smart!

Predicted social media influencers by a few decades….

Wait a minute. Did Calvin grow up to be a dumpy, overweight, not-very-bright, semi-literate dude with a REALLY bad combover and orange skin?

That would make him about as well-qualified as most of the contributors on Fox News.

Kid’s got a point. And he’s obnoxious enough to pull it off.

Hey he’s a millennial, he’ll just sponge off his parents or the government. P.S. Yes I know this was written in 1989.

Sounds like his goal is to be a TRAITOR Trumputin supporter. Not going to be one to let education get in the way.

Kardashians 101.

Sort of familiar sounding, but fathering hundreds of babies by as many females will cinch my opinion.

With that attitude, he’ll soon be POTUS.

Heck, he could become President!

wow, it’s amazing how well this holds up…

Calvin for President!

Calvin 2024!

He can be an Internet influencer!

I might skip school too

Prescient. Most prescient.

Take Zsa Zsa Gábor for instance, then again Zsa Zsa was just, Zsa Zsa..

Replace talk shows with social media and you have the current generation