Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 24, 2023

Close Encounters of the Wintery Kind.

Calvin is just jealous of other families because they’re happy.

Oh my gosh I remember this one from my childhood because I looked up jejune and then asked every adult I knew if they knew what it meant . No one did . That’s when I knew Calvin had insane diction for a kid .

Calvin is not only a talented artist, but also an art critic worth listening to.

I agree with Calvin’s comment that if you have to explain your art, you’re just babbling to yourself.

Betcha everyone in Calvin’s life wishes he would be carried away in a REAL flying saucer!! Except Hobbes—maybe.

Calvin’s house is one of those ‘Landmark Houses’ you can use when driving in his neighborhood, like my neighbor’s yard that was covered with lawn ornaments.

Hey “jejune”, it’s not so bad

Make a snowman and take off his head…

One thing is certain, and that is that Calvin’s vocabulary is NOT jejune!

Hey Jejune, don’t make it bad…take a snow man, and make it better…

Just as long as Calvin doesn’t upset his mom with any more “anatomically correct” snow people, like he did that one time.

I’ve been waiting all year for Calvin’s snow people! This one is great! Plus I’ve never seen it before. Merry Christmas Eve everyone!

Take me to your freezer……

Yes, aliens are invading, but that is no reason to lose your head.

Way too much time on their hands.

Say what you will about Calvin, but a project of that magnitude requires significant planning, skill, determination, and plain old hard work.

Learned a new word

Go, Calvin!

I thought it was jedecember, not jejune…

Meanwhile, off-panel the neighbors are building fences and planting thicker trees.

At least it wasn’t the Jadoon…well, maybe in that last panel…

Nothing has ever compared to Calvin and Hobbes Snow Goons!

One thing I’ll say. They’re all way better at making snowmen/women than I ever was.

Only the blasters are real….. (I didn’t say they worked…)

It just came to me – Calvin grew up and became Banksy.

I’d have to say the are right.

The Scream

If Cal worked that hard at other stu . . . WHAT am I SAYING??

Enormous responsibility indeed!

Is panel 3 one of Susie’s snowwomen?

Fros-T: The Subzero Extra-Terrestrial

As a child, I was permanently stationed at Camp Jejune

That’s horrible! Shooting him in the back!

Hmmm… complaining about the complainers… Oops! Now I’m complaining about the complainer-complaining… Sigh… this is getting complicated

Calvin, the Henry Moore of snowmen.

At last Calvin’s snowmen are back. I’ve missed them.

And the neighbors wonder why they can’t sell their homes.

I like the use of Jejune. Don’t see that much.

Big mistake. No self-respecting snow-alien would back-shoot a snowman.

Where I live at we do not have snow, over night Christmas eve rain possible snow on Christmas day.

What six year old knows words like “jejune.” And how to spell it.

And then almost two years later, Calvin starts cranking out crude imitations of the first generic snowman.

If this is ‘high culture’, I’ll stick with low culture.

I like the shape of the spaceship, giants can throw it around like a football

Calvin’s snowmen hold a special place in my memories

“jejune” ? (Naive, simplistic, and superficial) Now, just where did Calvin learn that word?

Love Hobbes’ comment and the last panel, too.

“Take us to your Calvin!”

Why did there have to be violence to end the comic today. There is enough in the news every day!

Cool!

Calvin’s ability to create massive snow sculptures goes unappreciated.

I like the one strip where Calvin makes an anatomically correct snow MAN and the reaction his mother makes. That’s a snow man of men!

Calvin, you can’t count yourself among the elite by saying “High Culture”. That is so low brow. Style dictates that you use “Haute Culture” instead. ;-p

I think Calvin must live in a universe with magic snow. He can create massive snow sculptures, build up a huge stockpile of snowballs, create legions of snow people and snow goons, yet he never seems to run out of snow, nor is there a sign of grass from where he gathered the snow nor are there ever any leaves or twigs adorning his pristine snow creations.

Gotta be magic snow.

Absolutely Brilliant!

Wow, is it Jujune already?

It’s a cartoon. Nothing in it is real.

Except Hobbes.