Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 13, 2011

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    margueritem  over 13 years ago

    Because he’ll damage you if you don’t…

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    pouncingtiger  over 13 years ago

    Ask a stupid question . . . . .

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 13 years ago

    OK, let’s test inserting a Web link. Here is a parallel Peanuts strip for today:Peanuts: March 14, 1958Thanks for the HTML help yesterday.

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Now let’s test inserting a picture:

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    COWBOY7  over 13 years ago

    You’re going to need a bondsman, Calvin!G’morning, Grog, Mike & Marg!

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    COWBOY7  over 13 years ago

    h1

    is the biggest.
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    Yukoner  over 13 years ago

    Calvin as the Don, running his “insurance” shakedown racket.

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 13 years ago
    h6 testh5 testh4 testh3 testh2 testh1 testThanks, Lonewolf.
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    whims  over 13 years ago

    Insurance? Isn’t that ‘protection’?

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Use /h1 between < and >, after the words in h1 font, to return to normal font:

    h1 font normal font
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    GROG Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Having Moe around could be the perfect insurance for Suzie.

     

    Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠!

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 13 years ago

    In Internet Explorer 7 and Opera, h1-h5 convert lowercase letters to uppercase. In Mozilla Firefox, only h3 and h5 convert lowercase letters to uppercase. So, I guess Mozilla users who use h1, h2, or h4 will be inadvertently shouting in all caps at non-Mozilla users, without knowing it.

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Internet Explorer 7 isn’t working properly with the new GoComics on my computer, so I’ve been using Mozilla or Opera. I tried Internet Explorer 8 on another computer, and the new GoComics worked fine. Both computers were running Windows XP.

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    sentient_today  over 13 years ago

    hmmm… This strip seems familiar

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    davidf42  over 13 years ago

    Hobbes – can you advise me in getting into the archives? Every time I try I get the message – This comic is unavailable.

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    cats32  over 13 years ago
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    uloma98  over 13 years ago

    Health Insurance!… you really can’t get around Calvin.. can you?

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    jonathan.james  over 13 years ago

    I should have thought Susie would be smarter than “insulting” Calvin, even at this early stage, and then walking away unguarded.

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Hi david42. I tried the Peanuts archives, and most of it seems to be there, but only for the original years from 1950 through the beginning of 2000. The reruns from 2000-2011 are missing and I get the error message, except for the past few months after GoComics took over the strip. Also, I can’t get the archives to zoom, again except for the past few months after GoComics took over. I did notice a software bug: When I go all the way back to the very first month, none of the days are highlighted and it doesn’t work, unless I step forward one month and then back to the first month again.

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    COWBOY7  over 13 years ago

    That’s the same way I get the Peanuts strip, Hobbes.

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    Destiny23  over 13 years ago

    Watch out, Calvin, or the Mafia will be coming after you for using their idea! Then you’ll be the one in need of insurance

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    dimeadance  over 13 years ago

    By Jove Hobbes, I think you’ve got it! Now will you dance all night??

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    kab2rb  over 13 years ago

    Hello all I had a frustrated time with GC. I had to change way I got in.

    I have missed a lot of the comments due to page too long. GC must have made more improvements because I today hit refresh list and comments extended.
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    kab2rb  over 13 years ago

    Sorry all I didn’t mean to yell loudly.

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    kab2rb  over 13 years ago
    hello
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    kab2rb  over 13 years ago

    ,

    this had better be a great 13th
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    Dallas1701D  over 13 years ago

    All this tech talk makes me want to peg somebody with a slingshot. Hope you all have insurance. Now where could you get that………….

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    davidf42  over 13 years ago

    Hobbes, that’s wierd because it doesn’t work for me.

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    Puddleglum2  over 13 years ago

    …shades of David and Goliath! Okay, that’s stretching it.

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    dsom8  over 13 years ago

    I wonder if Calvin’s aim with the slingshot is as bad as it becomes with snowballs and rotten apples. I don’t think I’ve seen him much with a slingshot as the strip grows up. Probably a good idea; a slingshot can be deadly.

    @Hobbes: Glad the HTML help did.

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    kab2rb  over 13 years ago

    Calvin are you becoming a mobster wanting protection insurance from yourself.

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    jadoo823  over 13 years ago

    …pay me insurance, before I hurt you; huh, can’t tell if Calvin’s working for the mob, or the government…actually, thinking about it, he must be working for the government – in the mob, it’s pay me insurance or else I’ll hurt you…it’s the government that doesn’t give you an option on the insurance or the hurt…

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    coffeeturtle  over 13 years ago

    how to become a racketeering mobster 101 :-p

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    coffeeturtle  over 13 years ago

    Racketeering Mobster 101

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    Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 13 years ago

    What happened to Kab and cats comments in those two places?

    I don’t know, 50 cents is a pretty good deal on insurance, don’t you think? :-D

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    MontanaLady  over 13 years ago

    I still need help, Hobbes……when i DO get into a comic page, I get an old page…….and then I have to use the arrows to get to the current comic. That has changed on a few comics, but just now I tried to get to BirdBrains, and it came up with May 11th’s cartoon, not today’s.Any ideas?

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    Dallas1701D  over 13 years ago

    This younger Suzie is mean. No wonder Calvin doesn’t like her in later strips….

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    Dallas1701D  over 13 years ago

    Hey Hobbes, I wanted to look at the note you gave us the other day with all the shortcuts for posting, and the Recent Comments section of your profile is JACKED UP! Check it out.

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    chovil  over 13 years ago

    I think you people are missing the point of the strip. Insurance for a life, or an afterlife.

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    cosman  over 13 years ago

    Gotti would be proud..

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    wellhoney  over 13 years ago

    Correct me if I’m wrong but I could swear these are NOT Bill Watterson’s drawings. Doesn’t look like the Calvin we know.

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    dahawk  over 13 years ago

    My goodness, people, all this tech talk about special ways to post! Just type your message in using proper spelling, punctuation and grammar and be done with it already!!

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    Mister-Edd  over 13 years ago

    You should contact the creator of this page to help him keep it up-to-date.

    The Unofficial GoComics Style Guidehttp://home.comcast.net/~ccdesan/Pibgorn/StyleGuide.html

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    Dallas1701D  over 13 years ago

    oh, I knew what happened and why, but wanted to let you know since you seem to be on top of all the changes and bugs. If you are collecting and compiling a list of necessary fixes i wanted to make sure you added it to the list. Hopefully it will make it’s way to the right people and get taken care of.

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Dallas1701D: Looks like a software bug on the “recent comments” page. The h1 code, changing to large font in one of my recent comments, changed the rest of the “recent comments” page to large font.

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 13 years ago

    davidf42: If you can’t see the archives, maybe try deleting your internet browsing history/cache and cookies. If that doesn’t work, try updating your browser to the latest version. If that doesn’t work, try other browsers. If that doesn’t work, try it on someone else’s computer to make sure it isn’t some problem just with your account. I’m a paying subscriber — can’t tell whether you are, since the goofy “Genius” label is now gone. Maybe non-paying subscribers have less access to archives? You asked about the Annie archives. I checked some Annie comics at random from over the past 10 years, and a whole lot of them are missing.

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    Dallas1701D  over 13 years ago

    aside from Sandy, would anyone really miss Annie? … LOL/JK

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    dsom8  over 13 years ago

    @wellhoney: These are some of Watterson’s earliest strips.

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    LeStats  over 13 years ago

    Calvin “Scarface” Capone…

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    Mythreesons  over 13 years ago
    Hello. Wasn’t something supposed to happen? I have Safari on a Mac if that makes any difference. Guess i’ll just go with Dahawk and type normally.
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    Mythreesons  over 13 years ago

    You didn’t say you had to hit “Submit” before anything happened! Sorry for the loud voice!

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    Dallas1701D  over 13 years ago

    LOL

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    bmonk  over 13 years ago

    Two thoughts:“When the Piranhas left school they were called up but were found by an Army Board to be too unstable even for National Service. Denied the opportunity to use their talents in the service of their country, they began to operate what they called ‘The Operation’. They would select a victim and then threaten to beat him up if he paid the so-called protection money. Four months later they started another operation which the called ‘The Other Operation’. In this racket they selected another victim and threatened not to beat him up if he didn’t pay them. One month later they hit upon ‘The Other Other Operation’. In this the victim was threatened that if he didn’t pay them, they would beat him up. This for the Piranha brothers was the turning point.”.and.The “Army Protection Racket” (similar, in its own way).

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    bmonk  over 13 years ago

    Colonel: Good morning gentlemen. Now what can I do for you?Luigi: (Michael Palin) (looking round office casually) You’ve… you’ve got a nice army base here, Colonel.Colonel: Yes.Luigi: We wouldn’t want anything to happen to it.Colonel: What?Dino: No, what my brother means is it would be a shame if… (he knocks something off mantel)Colonel: Oh.Dino: Oh sorry, Colonel.Colonel: Well don’t worry about that….Luigi: Explain it to the Colonel, Dino.Dino: How many tanks you got, Colonel?Colonel: About five hundred altogether.Luigi: Five hundred, eh?Dino: You ought to be careful, Colonel.Colonel: We are careful, extremely careful.Dino: ‘Cos things break, don’t they?Colonel: Break?Luigi: Well everything breaks, don’t it Colonel. (he breaks something on desk) Oh dear.Dino: Oh see my brother’s clumsy Colonel, and when he gets unhappy he breaks things. Like say, he don’t feel the army’s playing fair by him, he may start breaking things, Colonel.Colonel: What is all this about?Luigi: How many men you got here, Colonel?Colonel: Oh, er… seven thousand infantry, six hundred artillery, and er, two divisions of paratroops.Luigi: Paratroops, Dino.Dino: Be a shame if someone was to set fire to them.Colonel: Set fire to them?Luigi: Fires happen, Colonel.Dino: Things burn.Colonel: Look, what is all this about?Dino: My brother and I have got a little proposition for you Colonel.Luigi: Could save you a lot of bother.Dino: I mean you’re doing all right here aren’t you, Colonel?Luigi: Well suppose some of your tanks was to get broken and troops started getting lost, er, fights started breaking out during general inspection, like.Dino: It wouldn’t be good for business would it, Colonel? …

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    lin4869  over 13 years ago

    LOL! (Thanks for the link, etc., Hobbes.

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    mrprongs  over 13 years ago

    In all fairness, it’s protection, not insurance.

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    Frogman_tg  over 13 years ago

    At last – C&H is *Back!*, I haven’t be able to read the strip for two days now. Thanx for allt the tips!

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    cats32  over 13 years ago

    h1

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    cats32  over 13 years ago
    hi
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    cats32  over 13 years ago
    lol
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    hihigirl  over 13 years ago

    Does Calvin even have the money? I don’t doubt it… you know his nature.

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