Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 31, 2014

That’s what you get for giving him the Oxford English Dictionary for Christmas.

“Ichthyoid”?!? How DOES this kid come up with a vocabulary befitting a PhD? Small wonder Wormwood doesn’t like him. Calvin no doubt puts her meager vocabulary to shame.

And this is just Calvin’s straight news story. Wait until you read his editorial section.

The fish in Mom’s kitchen wasn’t as lucky as Goldy in The Far Side:Click here: The Far SideToday’s Calvin and Hobbes strip is from 1989. Stephan Pastis did a series on the tabloids in 2007 in Pearls Before Swine. Here are two strips from that series:Click here: Pearls Before Swine (July 2, 2007)Click here: Pearls Before Swine (July 9, 2007)

ah haha go go

Today is the anniversary of the Last New C&H strip published in 1995. sniff should ould acquaintances be forgot

I wish our local boys would try a few new adjectives from time to time; especially since they don’t do much investigative reporting, it might help their usual story about the weather become more interesting.

Leadingedge, go easy on Liverlips. Always useful to have the low-information voters self-identify, even if we don’t care what causes their (and they’re) whining.

All the news that’s not fit to print.

He picks up the trade fast.

This is one of my favorite Calvin strips. His use of obscure words and warped perspectives to sensationalize it is a hoot!

Yellow journalism at its finest!

Why is it that Mom and Dad never encourage his creativity?

I found the dictionary boring. Roget’s Thesaurus, and even more Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, on the other hand, were a never-ending source of “bon mots”.

Unless I am mistaken, Calvin and Hobbes was pretty much black and white when it originally ran; except of course, the Sunday editions. Today, there are many more “news” sources and you can get your journalism “colored” pretty much any way you choose…

Now if she said venison.

Knife wielding mother slaughters Bambi to satisfy carnivorous cravings of family

I’d call the page, “Calvin’s Household Exaggerations”. Haha

Just a matter of perspective.

Calvin and his pet tiger Hobbes are preparing to celebrate New Year’s Eve with Uncle Max by eating some fish and reading the daily newspaper.

Film at 11.

Looks like we may have another Charles Foster Kane on our hands.

And below the fold: “Intrepid reporter ejected from food establishment for exposing scandal!”

Something fishy about that headline.

Prescient strip, given that 25 years later we’re seeing that sort of “journalism” daily from media outlets desperate to retain their declining number of readers/viewers. It’s sort of like if CNN brought in Jerry Springer because more people are watching HIM than watching THEM…for the same reason.

When I want news reporting this good, I watch Fox News.

Quite a vocabulary for a little kid!

For a kid who hates school, his vocabulary is amazing.

@Sham_Poser: That’s correct — the reruns of the reruns from the second sabbatical are ending. Sunday should be the beginning of the 1995 strips, since that year began on a Sunday. Right now we are living 25 years in the past, but soon it will be only 20!

Have a wonderful NEW YEAR my fellow GOCOMICS fans.

Don’t act too hasty Mom, he just might be the next ‘Stephen King’.

Calvin will fit right in with the lamestream media. Might even get a job with MSNBC.

“Come on, scat!”

xxx

How Fox News got it’s start!

Kids all hate fish. In my high school French class everyone noted the French word for fish: “poisson,” and used it regularly.