Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 29, 2021

Just think Dad probably thought he wouldn’t have to deal with this kind of stuff because he only has one kid.

Pro tip: Try not to make someone who’s driving you very angry.

What’s the prize for the winner of the weird face contest?…..

As I wrote some time ago Calvin is the real “Mr. Fantasy”.

One day, the crown will be taken by either Spongebob or Patrick.

“Stripeypants”…got to remember that one!

“You won” is best!!

The little boy has wits and able to keeps us in splits.

“If I have to stop this car…”

How I feel with some 6th graders!

I remember well the time sitting in the back seat in the middle with my sisters on each side. They were arguing (as usual) with me quietly suffering through it….Dad kept telling them to shut up to no avail…he finally just reached back and backhanded us…boom boom boom…with one swipe. Of course with me in the middle I got it also.

Dad had an unfair advantage, being the father of Calvin!

A weird face contest? Some people (like me for instance) don’t have to do anything to win it

I wonder who’s to blame in the last panel for making the mother bail out of the car in that heavy traffic? Hope she’s all right and that big truck didn’t run over her!

I remember one family trip. The song “Crocodile Rock” came on the radio, and my sister & I started singing it at the top of our lungs, really exaggerating the “NAAAAAAA-nanananaNAAAAAA” part. I thought our parents were going to kill us. Side note: My sister was 30 & I was 17. The quietest one was our 9-year-old brother.

I think this is one reason for child’s seats till they are 18 years old.

I detect a lack of seatbelts in the vehicle. Is this from the 1950s?

Hobbes is definitely the instigator this time.

Dad is a little more patient than me. I probably would have separated them. Most likely by throwing one of them out the window. Hobbes of course. …maybe.

So many memories, I actually miss the chaos of three pups in the back seat

“Stripeypants” LOL!!!

Today’s reprint was a favourite of my nephew Stuart who was born in 1979 and was therefore a six-year-old like Calvin when this strip started. I discovered this wonderful strip in 1987 and introduced Stuart to it in 1988. Stuart drew a picture of Calvin’s Dad from the collection book which I lent to him and used the picture of Calvin’s Dad at his most angry as his model.

I lent all of my Calvin and Hobbes collection books to Stuart and he enjoyed them as much as I did. I think that the last original collection The Days Are Just Packed was published in 1997. The quotation came from the very last original Calvin and Hobbes strip published on December 31 1995.

I swear! If I had a kid like Calvin, I’d be a regular at Arthur’s bar right alongside Leroy Lockhorn!

No one won that contest really.

Stripeypants. Hilarious!

On a road trip a very long time ago, my little sister and I were tussling in the back seat and somehow she flew into the front seat. Dad pulled over and we both got spanked. Parents now don’t know how good they have it with seat belts and all.

Well, that does bring back Sunday afternoon drives with three kids in the back seat.

No one can ever beat a dad in a weird face contest.

Calvin isn’t horsing around. He’s tigering around.

Dad must be a lousy driver if he’s easily distracted.

What ever happened to the tried and true: “Don’t make me pull this car over…”

I have that face and can resort to it almost instantly.

My dad told me the story of his family’s move from Indiana to Los Angeles in the late 1920’s. They were travelling along Route 66, which would be taking them through San Bernardino. My dad, his brother, and his sister were amused by the name and took to singing, “San BernarDEEEno,” over and over from the backseat. I believe their dad’s ultimate reaction was similar to the next-to-last panel.

Road rage

Best Calvin cartoon ever!

Heh, I like how Hobbes looks like a rubber mask in the tenth and eleventh panels. But he can’t beat the twelfth panel, of course!

Any wit from the sarcastic kid, love the timing.

I guess so!!

My parents often talked about building that wall between the front seats and the back seats.

Where’d Calvin’s mom go to?

All parents wish cars had ejector seats.