Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 01, 2025

You’re just jealous, Calvin.

Eat your veggies, it’ll put hair on your chest…..

Then you’re singing “I’m wild about Hairy…”

Movies from the 1930’s and ’40’s required actors’ chests to be clean-shaven—which is why you never see Tarzan with body hair (or even a beard).

Just wait another 10 years, then you won’t be disappointed.

But I thought Calvin hated girls.

You should ask Susie, Calvin!

I grew up surrounded by very hairy men. As a small child I hated to have dad pick me up in his arms because the hairs sometimes came through his T-shirt and prickled! That said, I remember crying my eyes out one day when I was about 5 because I realised that as a girl, I’d never grow a full beard. Well, not without a serious hormonal imbalance, anyway.

I have no chest hair, back hair, hairy arms or leg hair. Got a full head of too much hair. I shave every other day. Means nothing! Keep your macho!

I’ve never understood why it’s considered desirable for men to look like apes with hair all over.

Only the bad guys have body hair!!!

I take after my mum. No hairy chest.

Mr’s 6 is happy. She hates hairy men.

And no – l don’t have boobs!

Eyes raised, tongue out, arms folded – great! I’ll be practising that one…

Calvin, check to see if Moe has a hairy chest. If he does, you might want to re-think this…

And if you think others make fun of you now, it would be nothing if word got around you had a hairy chest at your age.

Hair today, gone tomorrow!

A small misspell? “You look like you have to take a dump?”?

I have a hairy chest but it is gross so I always shave it

George “The Animal” Steele…

I started getting hairy front and back, top to bottom, the second puberty kicked in when I was 12. Talk about getting teased in gym class. At least I wasn’t the only kid with the condition. :) Odd thing is, I can barely grow a decent looking beard. :(

Mom, be thankful he wasn’t talking about pubic hair! She probably would have given him the reasoning!

True story. About 15 years ago I was a captain of an adult league hockey team in NC. A team member took his jersey off in the locker room, and even tho’ he was a skinny guy he had a huge amount of hair on his chest. I made a joke about him having that ‘’Austin Powers’’ look going for him, and every one laughed. I wasn’t trying to be mean and had no idea that I must have upset him. I had obviously triggered something because the following week he had shaved it all off.

I have thick hair: from the neck up. Below the neck, I am the naked ape: hardly any body hair.

I’ve been in enough communal showers in my time. I prefer my look to the gorilla-like mats that adorn some men’s bodies.

When I was in the Air Force, we sometimes had joint exercises with our sister squadron stationed in the Philippines. We were stationed in Japan. You could tell who was who in the shower. They had tans, we looked more like albinos.

Hobbes is channeling Joe Btfsplk. Cal’s chances for a win are nil.

Inspiring words from the Bible – “But my brother Esau is an hairy man; And I am a smooth man;”

Some credibility issues here.

Calvin was an early adopter of “manscaping.”

She’s right.

Hairless chests tell you that he’s more evolved!

Man or beast?

My mother declared forthrightly, as a young person, that she would never marry a hairy man. My dad was a bear. They were married from the late 1940’s to Mom’s death in the 2010’s.

Well, at least he didn’t say “My belly button is to small” after he lifted his shirt.

The hair on my chest has migrated to my belly.

You’re what – six years old? Learn some physiology; that’s not going to kick in for another eight years, at least!

Give it time, Calvin. If you’re meant to have a hairy chest, it’ll happen.

I have moderate chest hair. in the early 80’s I tore my arm out of the socket when a machine attacked me. a full year of physio therapy with my arm being taped back in place every day removed most of the hair, but it grew back thicker. Fortunately my wife is OK with it.