Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 04, 2021

It would be best if you didn’t talk about Calvin with your colleagues. It wouldn’t reflect positively on you as a father.

what, no protesters’ signs about Mum?

Hopefully this protest is peaceful.

CLM! Calvin Lives Matter!

Calvin’s dad drives a 2 door car.

It builds character, Dad, it builds character.

Of course this instead of “Welcome home father!”

I think Watterson lived for winter, given what Calvin could do with snow.

The protest was frozen.

I love the various Calvin snowmen. This one is kind of tame, actually.

What are the snowmen complaining about? They don’t have to do homework or take baths and they can go to the snow bed anytime they want.

At last! A use for snow goons! (-:

And if you’re smart, you won’t talk about it at work either, Dad…

“Egad! Bad dad!” is a very good sign.

No one else at the office has a kid with such creativity. Maybe they’re all suppressed.

‘No one else at the office talks about this kind of thing.’

Just like you don’t talk about Calvin at work, either! >B^D Think, Calvin’s Dad: how many other men at your office might well have kids like Calvin at home?!

Oh, one other: Danger waiting for you, if Calvin were to ever find out how you seem to regard him!! 8^0

On the bright side, they’re not storming your house.

I wonder if Calvin’s Dad knocks back a double or triple at the end of the day or does he just take the whole fifth back to his recliner?

He’s your kid.

I love the snowmen series; they are among the classics of this strip, and I can’t stop thanking Bill for them!

That’s because they all have negotiated contracts.

In nature, no two snowmen are alike.

Buddy, no one else at the office has YOUR kid!

No one else has Calvin….

Dad’s car looks like one I had once upon a time.

I would have talked about this at the “office”. It’s a howl

Oh, go ahead, Dad – run ’em down with the car (You know you want to…)

I thought strikers had to have a fire burning in an old 55-gallon drum…

Egad! Bad Dad!

a favorite for decades now.

Maybe if you didn’t buy him Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs he wouldn’t have so much energy??

Egad! A mild expletive safe for children to use.

What do we want?Chocolate!When do we want it?Now!

Heck, I would have taken a photo of it and hung it on my office wall as a warning to anyone who wanted to mess with me. Or anyone thinking about having kids. At any rate, laughter would have ensued.

And now the unions have officially gone too far.

They would if they lived around you. I’m pretty sure the neighbors are talking about you right now.

That’s a lot of work for a 6-year old to make all those snowmen, and also the signs. And where does he get all that snow of the right temperature to make a snowman?

I love how his parents always act victimized and never place blame on Calvin’s rebelliousness on their own often misguided parenting. They did raise one very bright, talented and spunky kid though!

If only BLM riots were this peaceful…

Today the would be recorded and shown/marketed on YouTube, making Calvin, and him, some good money.

I love Calvin’s snow creations… but where does he get all that snow?

I’m impressed that a six-year-old correctly used “fewer” instead of “less”!

As many snowman there is surprised any snow left.

Calvin can have a great future as a sign maker.

I feel like this didn’t age well

Good to see Calvin is into creative writing.

And, sadly, you didn’t have a cell phone to share the pictures.

One of my favorite snowmen strips! Of course, regarding “Later bedtimes, fewer baths,” by the time you get older it’s actually “Later bedtimes, more showers!”

All that work making snowmen, meant he had no energy to shovel the driveway.

Of course they don’t talk about stuff like this at this office because they don’t have a kid like Calvin!

If I had a child like that, I wouldn’t talk about it at the office either.

Hey, Hey!

Ho, Ho!

Calvin’s dad’s gotta go!

No one in the office has a kid like Calvin either.

What’s your favorite sign?

I guess Calvin got over the Snow Goons.

Come on. The little twerp can’t spell that well. Just ask Gertrude Wormwood.

Earlier, on Dad’s way to work…

https://i.imgur.com/RtVyer5.gif

Calvin County, U.S.A.

when they protest you like that, your poll numbers are sure to sink badly

“egad! bad dad!” the best one!

That’s because you can characterize all of their children are lemmings!

“Steve’s too Stricker to be at the office in Marathon County. " Calvin Pickard Class

gosh ,this comic really lives up to its name!

And how is this kid still 6 years old after 36 years!?

No one else has Calvin…

At least he was not my parents, who were subjected to a Letter To The Editor in the local newspaper from me at age 14, complaining about the communist parents I had who were stifling freedom loving Americans like me and their KGB-like punishments for deviant thought and speech.

They were proud that the newspaper editor commented on both my penmanship and my command of the American English language, making said letter the first that the editor did not have to edit in over 20 years.

Later that week, my parents got a call from my English 10 teacher on the quality of my writing and how pleased she was I was so creative; but at the same time publicly embarrassed by coworkers and friends.

In the end, nothing changed of course, and I was lectured about the proper use of the public media.