Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 15, 2021

Bug, pest, both would be accurate.

Oh, the days of yore of utilizing a typewriter which required correction fluid to fix a mistake… or an unintentional side memo.

Not strange, as Calvin has been a bug for a long time.

You wanted kids

I wonder: did Calvin read Kafka?

Type writer? What is this type writer thing?

Let’s explain this to Mom- you have one kid. So that means you get one guess.

I was immediately reminded of archy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy_and_Mehitabel

Well, where’s the White Out?

Remember the cockroach jumping on typewriter keys in Don Marquis’ ARCHY AND MEHITABEL?

The lost art of handwriting.

Some humbug wrote it, mom!

Wow…what year was today’s strip originally published?

Who wrote, “Help, I’m a bug,” on my letter to Grandma?

Gee Mom, not a lot of choices out there

How strange indeed.

I bet it was Vincent Price just before the final scene of the original (and BEST version of) “The Fly”. The brain worm of that STILL gives me the willies after all these years. No kidding. “Heelllp me… please heellp me”.

archie & mehitabel! How could I have forgotten?

Someone needs to be squashed, and need you ask Mum?

Gotta love Calvin’s flights of imagination.

The amazing thing is that Calvin actually knew how to type!

Thats a typewriter she’s using. when was the last time you actually saw one of those. I forgot how long ago he discontinued this strip.

Screaming funny. Laughs, not just smiles.

Careful Calvin, medical treatment could come in the form of a straight jacket.

And least Calvin can spell.

A typewriter! A total blast from the past. That rates right up there with the corded rotary-dialed wall-phone from a few strips back. It was a different world, maybe better…

Anyone else think of Archy and Mehitabel? Archie the cockroach types the way Calvin the Bug types.

Who types letters to grandma?

Archy and Mehitabel

I had a Siamese cat that would try to type. He jammed up my manual typewriter keys in the middle of the night. Eventually, I bought an unjammable IBM Selectric typewriter. I was interested in what he would produce with it. Unfortunately, it was disappointing – shallow cat-centric plots, full of Siamese bluster and bravado and just awful, awful spelling. :)

You TYPE your letters to Grandma????

this is my favorite Calvin strip of all time.

The bug bugged.

Don’t erase it or start over, Mom. Just pick up beneath it. Grandma will understand. She’s met Calvin.

“What’s a typewriter?” I hear puzzled younkers asking

Ask a silly question, Mom, and get a silly answer.

“Help, I’m a bug and being held captive by my evil parents “

Shouldn’t the lever for advancing paper be on the other side

Archie the Cockroach?

“CALVINS AREN’T BUGS!”

So to be squashed pest!

Typing a letter to Gramma??? My mom would have killed me if I did that. Hand-written. And say please and thank you.

What kind of medical treatment?

A typewriter? Is this strip from 1920?

Calvin did this just to annoy.

Pretty smart little bug then….

I remember, from childhood, when typing something on a typewriter (vs. writing by hand) was a BIG deal. How times change …

Of course, that was long before autocorrect. Otherwise, granny would have read ‘Hell, I’m buxom.’