Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 07, 2020

A show with dinner.

know any six-year-olds who can tolerate spicy foods?

Calvin doesn’t care; he likes to make a mess.

Dad spewed and mom erupted…. Calvin is contagious.

Mount Calvin looks familiar to me :

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Based on Musorgskij https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62YzIiNlVuY&ab_channel=classicsoundchannel

Hah. Been there and done that..

Maybe it was that I grew up in a northern town. But I can’t remember my Mom ever serving chili. If one got desperate, there was always macaroni and cheese.

They should’ve appeased the volcano by serving it virgin . . .

. . . olive oil

Chilli sauce at an Asian restaurant? See dad’s chop sticks?

If there was any intake Mt. Calvin will learn at a later time that the “lava” will find another place to vent.

I used to think the bigger a chilli the less spicier it is; until one day I had that first bite of a big chilli snack and that memory is now burnt in my mind

Mt.Calvin strikes again….

Dad tried to warn you, Calvin…but did you listen…

I once unknowingly bit into a piece of sushi that had the chunk of wasabi that was intended for the entire dozen of them stuck on the bottom. Reacted exactly like Calvin.

Dad’s five alarm chili sauce!

Wait’ll you see what he spews later!

Calvin just learned the difference between a warning and a dare.

My question is, why do the spicest foods come from the hottest regions and the blandest foods come from the coldest regions?

My wife makes great chili, very mild. For picky eaters, she makes chili booster, which is basically pureed hot peppers – whole. A guest at one of out parties ate a spoonful. His reaction was mostly in Japanese.

When the volcano that created Crater Lake (in Oregon) blew up, it put 12 cubic miles of earth into the air.

Calvin is such a drama queen when it comes to food, you should have expected an explosive reaction, however, on the other hand, he loves to pretend his food is disgusting. Maybe this is a perfect opportunity to demonstrate what hateful food is really like.

Spaceman Spiff can’t handle a little hot sauce? What a whimp!

Putting the chili sauce on Mom’s typical cooking probably didn’t help.

And this comic will replay again, next time ending in the bathroom.

Calvin, if that was Vietnamese hot sauce, you should drink milk, not water, unless you would like a visit to the emergency room for third degree burns.

Calvins face in the last panel. LOL!

A friend once said he could eat the hottest sancho on the menu. He was doing OK until he got near the bottom, where most of the sauce had settled. Took an entire 6-pack of Pepsi to cool him down… ☺

Don’t ever give him a gun, of any type…..

Dad’s Insanity Sauce?

The object lessons of life once learned are never forgotten…

If Paramount Pictures ever distributed a “Calvin and Hobbes” movie, they could have the Paramount logo at the start end up turning into this imagine spot! And then after that last panel the opening credits would begin.

It’s not a great idea to get young kids interested in very spicy foods. They do not associate the novel tastes with possible digestive consequences, which may occur hours later.

Love Cal’s eyes in the last panel

Mr Watterson loves to draw, and knows how to do it so well. A talent not entirely wasted on cartooning, as we see here and in many other strips.

I remember eating in the school cafeteria, seated across from a venerable older teacher, well respected, and to my left sat one of my sixth-grade boys who had just filled his mouth with a huge amount of cooked spinach. I said something which he thought was so funny that he burst out Calvin-like so that spinach shot all across the table and over the clothing of “Miss Wormwood” opposite. It was not my fault! It was not my fault!

is that why the table is dissolving?

Hilarious!

At least he tried eating it this time.

Chili is a state of mind. Addictions to it are formed early in life and the victims never recover.

I just heard over the weekend, that Bill Watterson turned down a huge offer from a company to make stuffed Hobbes toys. (I did not catch the timeframe) I can’t find the exact quote as to why he wouldn’t but it involved ruining Hobbes mystique e.g. is he real or not? Here are some quotes from another interview regarding commercializing Calvin and Hobbes:“[L]icensing is inconsistent with what I’m trying to do with Calvin and Hobbes… [it] isn’t a gag strip… The humor is situational, and often episodic. It relies on conversation, and the development of personalities and relationships… To explore character, you need lots of time and space. Note pads and coffee mugs just aren’t appropriate vehicles for what I’m trying to do here. I’m not interested in removing all the subtlety from my work to condense it for a product… I have no aversion to obscene wealth, but that’s not my motivation either. I think to license Calvin and Hobbes would ruin the most precious qualities of my strip and, once that happens, you can’t buy those qualities back.”

“I’m convinced that licensing would sell out the soul of Calvin and Hobbes. The world of a comic strip is much more fragile than most people realize. Once you’ve given up its integrity, that’s it. I want to make sure that never happens. Instead of asking what’s wrong with rampant commercialism, we ought to be asking, “What justifies it?”