I bet it was Vincent Price just before the final scene of the original (and BEST version of) “The Fly”. The brain worm of that STILL gives me the willies after all these years. No kidding. “Heelllp me… please heellp me”.
A typewriter! A total blast from the past. That rates right up there with the corded rotary-dialed wall-phone from a few strips back. It was a different world, maybe better…
I had a Siamese cat that would try to type. He jammed up my manual typewriter keys in the middle of the night. Eventually, I bought an unjammable IBM Selectric typewriter. I was interested in what he would produce with it. Unfortunately, it was disappointing – shallow cat-centric plots, full of Siamese bluster and bravado and just awful, awful spelling. :)
BE THIS GUY over 2 years ago
Bug, pest, both would be accurate.
Templo S.U.D. over 2 years ago
Oh, the days of yore of utilizing a typewriter which required correction fluid to fix a mistake… or an unintentional side memo.
codycab over 2 years ago
Not strange, as Calvin has been a bug for a long time.
C over 2 years ago
You wanted kids
Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member over 2 years ago
I wonder: did Calvin read Kafka?
Robin Harwood over 2 years ago
Type writer? What is this type writer thing?
Lightpainter Premium Member over 2 years ago
Let’s explain this to Mom- you have one kid. So that means you get one guess.
Concretionist over 2 years ago
I was immediately reminded of archy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy_and_Mehitabel
whahoppened over 2 years ago
Well, where’s the White Out?
Johnny Q Premium Member over 2 years ago
Remember the cockroach jumping on typewriter keys in Don Marquis’ ARCHY AND MEHITABEL?
boniface22 over 2 years ago
The lost art of handwriting.
in.amongst over 2 years ago
Some humbug wrote it, mom!
Stocky One over 2 years ago
Wow…what year was today’s strip originally published?
Red33410 over 2 years ago
Who wrote, “Help, I’m a bug,” on my letter to Grandma?
PaulAbbott2 over 2 years ago
Gee Mom, not a lot of choices out there
einarbt over 2 years ago
How strange indeed.
Count Olaf Premium Member over 2 years ago
I bet it was Vincent Price just before the final scene of the original (and BEST version of) “The Fly”. The brain worm of that STILL gives me the willies after all these years. No kidding. “Heelllp me… please heellp me”.
welucke over 2 years ago
archie & mehitabel! How could I have forgotten?
DaveG1960 over 2 years ago
Someone needs to be squashed, and need you ask Mum?
sandpiper over 2 years ago
Gotta love Calvin’s flights of imagination.
jagedlo over 2 years ago
The amazing thing is that Calvin actually knew how to type!
greyolddave over 2 years ago
Thats a typewriter she’s using. when was the last time you actually saw one of those. I forgot how long ago he discontinued this strip.
Jhony-Yermo over 2 years ago
Screaming funny. Laughs, not just smiles.
A Hip loving Canadian... over 2 years ago
Careful Calvin, medical treatment could come in the form of a straight jacket.
Gandalf over 2 years ago
And least Calvin can spell.
Alexander the Good Enough over 2 years ago
A typewriter! A total blast from the past. That rates right up there with the corded rotary-dialed wall-phone from a few strips back. It was a different world, maybe better…
SunflowerGirl100 over 2 years ago
Anyone else think of Archy and Mehitabel? Archie the cockroach types the way Calvin the Bug types.
gantech over 2 years ago
Who types letters to grandma?
Myxyzptlyk over 2 years ago
Archy and Mehitabel
mistercatworks over 2 years ago
I had a Siamese cat that would try to type. He jammed up my manual typewriter keys in the middle of the night. Eventually, I bought an unjammable IBM Selectric typewriter. I was interested in what he would produce with it. Unfortunately, it was disappointing – shallow cat-centric plots, full of Siamese bluster and bravado and just awful, awful spelling. :)
swanridge over 2 years ago
You TYPE your letters to Grandma????
bajacalla Premium Member over 2 years ago
this is my favorite Calvin strip of all time.
kathleenhicks62 over 2 years ago
The bug bugged.
Sue G over 2 years ago
Don’t erase it or start over, Mom. Just pick up beneath it. Grandma will understand. She’s met Calvin.
KEA over 2 years ago
“What’s a typewriter?” I hear puzzled younkers asking
ron over 2 years ago
Ask a silly question, Mom, and get a silly answer.
mindjob over 2 years ago
“Help, I’m a bug and being held captive by my evil parents “
TSRaman over 2 years ago
Shouldn’t the lever for advancing paper be on the other side
Tentoes over 2 years ago
Archie the Cockroach?
fritzoid Premium Member over 2 years ago
“CALVINS AREN’T BUGS!”
schaefer jim over 2 years ago
So to be squashed pest!
stupendous man over 2 years ago
Typing a letter to Gramma??? My mom would have killed me if I did that. Hand-written. And say please and thank you.
WCraft Premium Member over 2 years ago
What kind of medical treatment?
Redd Panda over 2 years ago
A typewriter? Is this strip from 1920?
Otis Rufus Driftwood over 2 years ago
Calvin did this just to annoy.
rklynch over 2 years ago
Pretty smart little bug then….
rgcviper over 2 years ago
I remember, from childhood, when typing something on a typewriter (vs. writing by hand) was a BIG deal. How times change …
AndreasMartin over 2 years ago
Of course, that was long before autocorrect. Otherwise, granny would have read ‘Hell, I’m buxom.’