Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 03, 2015

Hamster Huey had a busy day and wanted to go to bed early.

i recieved the complete calvin and hobbes collection for

x-mas and i just read this earlier today!

Dad didn’t understand: repetitive reading of the same story is like a soothing balm to a kid.

I love it!! LOL

Here is a Peanuts strip that seems like it could have inspired today’s 1989 Calvin and Hobbes strip. However, it did not. It was published in 1952, six years before Bill Watterson was born, and it was not reprinted in a Peanuts book until 2004, fifteen years after today’s strip. (By the way, Albert Payson Terhune wrote dog stories.)Click here: Peanuts (February 4, 1952)On the other hand, here is a Peanuts strip that Bill Watterson probably read in a Peanuts book when he was growing up:Click here: Peanuts (September 28, 1958)And here is a Peanuts strip that Bill Watterson would have read in the Sunday newspaper when he was twelve years old, nineteen years before he drew today’s strip:Click here: Peanuts (July 26, 1970)Finally, here is a strip that Bill Watterson would have seen in the newspaper when he was 28 years old, just three years before he drew today’s strip:Click here: Calvin and Hobbes (December 7, 1986)

Today’s Calvin and Hobbes should be our final 1989 rerun from the period of Bill Watterson’s second sabbatical, which was in 1994. Tomorrow we should begin the final year of Calvin and Hobbes, from 1995.But, before we leave 1989, here is Bill Watterson’s wonderful Christmas Eve Sunday strip from that year, which we missed, because this year Christmas Eve did not fall on a Sunday:Click here or stretch image below: Calvin and Hobbes (December 24, 1989)

Thank you, Hobbes for this beautiful Christmas Eve strip. The poem is an excellent indication of Bill Watterson’s many talents.

@JoanHelen and @LeadingEdge: Glad you enjoy them. I will generally be posting later in the day, and less frequently, with the end of vacation looming on Monday. Work always gets in the way of the most important things in life.

:>)

what about hamster huey ?

u cannot always get what u want…

but if u try sometimes…

ok,Calvin, you read Hamster Huey to dad

@Ray49FL….you get what you need……Love it……

@hobbswork is a 4 letter word…

@hobbsI love your additions to the strip. C&H has been a favorite of mine since my Navy days in the 80’s. Thanks much…..

Too funny :-)

One of the reasons my mother was thrilled when I learned to read books for myself so early in life was that she didn’t go through this. By age 6 I was reading at a 6th-grade level and too curious about the next book to want repetition. When I was about 8 she hurt her back and was on bedrest for several weeks. That was when I started reading aloud to her! She helped me learn to read aloud “as if it were happening to you.” Thanks, Mom.

What about Hamster Huey’s head?

I hope that GoComics will continue to print these strips over and over and over so that Calvin will never grow up and leave us.

sometimes you get sour grapes !

Hamster Huey, the sarcastic multitasker.

That was Hamster Huey in ‘fast forward’ mode.

Was the Gooey Kablooie’s secret ingredient noodles?

Wow. This is the first comic strip I’ve seen where Calvin actually acted his age. Haha

@Number Six: It’s a relief to be off the hook from yesterday. That was a really long hook, reaching all the way from England. Not sure where you will store it as you save it for my next really bad pun. I hope it is retractable, unlike my puns.

New ending too: Hamster Huey meets Starving Snake.

Hamster Huey has to be fast because he’s ♪Workin’ For a Livin’♫

@Nun ’Ya Bidness: Yes, unfortunately, Charles Schulz has been gone for fifteen years, and Bill Watterson has been nearly invisible for twenty.

Dad should have recorded his voice reading the story on a tape cassette player so Calvin can play it over and over again.

xxx

@Hobbes

Thanks for the great selection of strips.

For another sleep-inducing related strip, see today’s Cul de Sac.

Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooey always makes me smile.

Thanks for the strips, Hobbes … especially the Xmas Eve one. Great to read.

@rgcviper: I think that a lot of people have never seen that Christmas Eve strip. It was never rerun by GoComics, because Christmas Eve hasn’t been on a Sunday since 2006. In 2011 Christmas Eve fell on a Saturday and then in 2012 it was on a Monday, skipping Sunday because 2012 was a leap year.