Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 20, 2022

The dry cleaners can probably get it out.

Better hope dad doesn’t have an important meeting with the boss today.

The best part is the third panel. It’s rare to see Hobbes yelling at Calvin like that unless Calvin yelled first.

Hobbes, your “Calvin” is showing.

Well suited

Smock Schmock

One of by absolutely favorite arcs. I hope this one gets to the “Smock, smock, smock” scene.

“Don’t mock my smock, or I’ll clean your clock.” I will pray for an opportunity to insert this very useful quip into a conversation. Actually, my mother sent me to kindergarten with one of my dad’s old faded Hawaiian shirts to use when fingerpainting, decorating ginger bread houses, or any other potentially messy activity that would ruin the beautiful clothes she made for me. I distinctly remember my teacher’s expression — a look that said, “Hmm, what an interesting mom.”

What a fun world to say! Smock, smock, smock, smock, SMOCK!!!

Cleanliness is next to smocklessness.

I think it should say; “I’m naked under this”.

Seamed like a good idea at the time !

I’d love to see this from the parents’ perspective, with the toy Hobbes dressed in Dad’s shirt.

Flashback to kindergarten and first grade when we were given a supply list for art class. The list said “smock”, but rather than get me a smock my size Mom just sent me with one of my dad’s work shirts. He was obese before it was common (this was the early 60s). The kids laughed their heads off as the shirt reached nearly to my ankles.

When my father got his shirts from the cleaners, there would be cardboard in the back.

And I usually removed it to have something to draw on!!

Memory: when the art teacher announced that we would be painting & would need “smocks”, going to my mom. My dad was a foreman at a woodshop, so he had a number of button-down shirts that he wore to work & one of those would always suffice.

I just think that Hobbes is making a smockery of everything!

I’ll bet Hobbes gets the blame for this one, rightly so!

I suspect someone is likely to get a smack for that smock. A clean clock is likely in somebodies’ immediate future.

’’I’ll be Mister Smock and you can be Captain Jirk’’

I cannot wait to see how this turns out.

I still have photos of my two older sons using a couple of my short-sleeved fatigue shirts (I had just gotten out of the Air Force), as painter’s smocks. They were 3 or 4 years old at the the time. 40 years later, one of them still wears my field jacket.

True (short) story: I grew up in a city/neighborhood in Cincinnati within walking distance of the factory that made Play-Doh. There was a large section of woods between my neighborhood and the factory, and one time the word spread that they had “dumped” a large pile of experimental Play-Doh product in the woods. All the neighborhood kids took off with their buckets and red wagons and hit the woods – true, a pile of Play-Doh in clear plastic tubes about the size of toothpaste tubes in the woods. It was Christmas for us kids. I brought home a wagon load of it.

If Calvin was a child today, he would be playing video games all day and we wouldn’t be enlightened about such wonderful things at the outdoors and modeling clay and all the fun stuff you were allowed to do back then (without the benefit of the computer).

Wasn’t it Steve Allen who used to say, “Smock! Smock!”? BTW, it appears that Calvin’s dad has his suit color designed by Sloan Wilson.

It would be cheaper to buy a new shirt. I image dad doesn’t get high end shirts because of the bills Calvin icur’s.

Love Calvin’s imaginary Hobbes….

“You make schlock out of my frock and your allowance I’ll dock!”

I bet his hero is “Mr. Smock”. :)

Dad may have lost a dress shirt but Hobbes gained a halloween costume

this will end badly

Calvin is ever the philosopher- like Plado, who was an Ancient Greek philosopher who used to model his thoughts in clay ….

I have another account.

I like how childish Hobbes gets in the third panel.

“Clean your clock?” What a crock. I just don’t grok this kind of talk. They should put that smock in hock.

Seriously, the smock rocks.

Funny.

DontKnockMySmock.com , for all your not-knocking-smocks needs.

i have honestly read that comic so many times that the word smock is stuck in my head

There have been rattier clothes that make better smocks.

I love Hobbes saying that last sentence. Adorable and hilarious!