Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 02, 2025

This could make for an interesting documentary.

I still can’t believe Bill’s publisher actually got away with running this comic in the newspaper.

That is one of my favorite strips, this strip will never be shown in today’s world

One of my all time favorites.

I agree with Calvin’s basic premise, but nowadays, politicians are already thinning the human population—by starting wars!

The final frame proves that Mom and Dad really don’t give a d@mn!

Fun fact: amongst the early script ideas for Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Judge Doom was to be revealed to be the hunter who shot Bambi’s mother.

I’m nostalgic for a time when there were only 6 billion people.

Once again I admire Watterson’s art. Look at Frank. Combover, soft around the middle, family picture on the desk, asking Ted if he wants coffee. By panel three we already know the man. Detailed background for the first two panels. We know this office. But third and fourth are plain backgrounds to build up to and then concentrate attention on the shot. Note the contrasting colour (coordinated) of the woman, as she reacts to the shot, and the way the moustache guy almost blends in, providing a foreground but not distracting from the central drama.Then back to the detail. The lift, the plant on one side, the ashtray on the other. The woman’s papers are scattered on the floor.

Of course we animals gots the rights to bear arms too ya knows.

Let me guess, they were using buck shot.

The world’s population has nearly tripled since I was born.

Oh DEER! Somehow I understand it but I don’t have the HART to say it…(therefore I better write)

I think it would be a waste of time to get it stuffed. The old ones might be big, but that one wasn’t in good shape.

I herd it’s a possibility.

Over 8 billion today.

I guess I shouldn’t recommend searching for “bambulance 911 call” on YouTube for a laugh. Warning: Strong Language.

Obviously the lesson in this is that drinking coffee can get you killed.

That’s why I stick with espresso.

Deer me!

You gotta hand it to Calvin for imagination.

Ah, eugenics.

Today’s reprint is another one which reminds me of The Sixth Sense. Cole Sears explained to Dr Malcolm Crow that he draws rainbows because there was an upset when he drew a picture of a man with a screwdriver in his head. He then said to Dr Crow, “They don’t call Parent-Teacher Conferences over rainbows.”

As I have said before, Cole reminded me of Calvin. They were both imaginative kids who were bullied at school and not all of the weird things that they saw and heard were in their imaginations.

I mean, he’s not wrong.

And to think the human population has risen to EIGHT billion just since the publication of this strip!

My absolute favorite of all time…

I saw a post where a kid drew his family being hanged. Turns out the kid was actually drawing their vacation where they went snorkel diving. Made for an interesting conference, I’m sure, LOL!!

And whose job was it to keep an eye on Calvin and proofread his report?

Since this strip was published, the human race has increased by another 3 billion! Yet we still drive other species to extinction and continue warming the planet.

We really are a cancer.

Bambi’s reckoning?

What? No blaze orange? It’s for your own safety, ya know.

Boy, have the tables have turned

On a totally different line, when I read panels 1-3 I thought we were looking at Cal’s Dad at late middle age. Dark haired but balding, overweight, glasses, sleeves rolled up. Then came the BANG, etc, and I caught on.

Good strip for that time and as applicable now.

One of my favorite C&H of all time

When I saw the second panel, I was reminded of a company for whom I worked. This was in Seattle where coffee is a major religion. Software developers accepted job offers based on what kind of coffee the company served. It’s part of the corporate cuture.

The company got bought out by another company who was into micromanagement. They would turn off all phones at people’s desk and reroute calls through the front desk from 10 AM to 4 PM. This was work time and not time to make or receive personal calls. It was sort of like, “OK boys and girls, it’s time to put away your crayons. Now we are going to play with clay.”

They also replaced our coffee contract with one from ARA. ARA provides coffee to the airlines in bulk. They claimed that it would save $600 a year.

So now, instead of making a trip to the coffee pot and back to the desk, a developer would go from cube to cube stating, “I’m going downstairs to the coffee shop. Want to come.” This happened twice a day. So about 10 programmers would disappear for 90 minutes a day. Given the salaries that they were being paid, the company was losing about $600 a day.

I would NEVER go shooting with the 1 in the elevator. Can’t handle a gun safely.

What? Close to 100 comments, and no one spamming about new world order, and the giant plan about controlling population?!?!

So happy to se that! Hopefully they keep away from comments sections.

think there’s a conspiracy hidden somewhere in this comic. Let’s face it, is there nothing suspicious about 4 deer coming in the front door of the building, walking on their hind legs, carrying long rifles, and getting on the elevator that no one found suspicious enough to report and perhaps sound the alarm? In any case, I think the deer knew humans like coffee and set up a coffee dispenser sometime during the night or weekend that dispensed free coffee to lure in the unsuspecting humans.

Maybe now I can find a parking space

To wit. Still relevant today.

George “Calvin” Orwell!!!!!!

The deer are now armed, it is on!

Love it!

“Oh yeah? Define ‘Well-Adjusted.’”

Based on solid science.

Bill Watterson was known for “bucking the system”.

Funny

YEAH! Zero population growth!

Hmmm… and interesting insight from the hunted animals viewpoint.

Inspiration for Thanos

Calvin, WHAT THE F*CK

He makes a good point about the hypocrisy of some of the reazons people uze to justify otherwize-unnecessary hunting.

Oh deer!

Https://WWW .Youtube. com/watch?v=MQyoSLOlglw

They say that turnabout is fair play….

This is one of my favorites of all time!

Oh deer, this comic is brilliant! Tum Te Ta Ta Tum…

Not me! Thin HIM!

I said before that Watterson’s work from this year reflected how he wanted to say some things as he wound down the strip. But this may be the most disturbing thing he did.

Imagine how different life would be if this was real.

Look how proud Calvin seems to be as he presents his closing argument…

I love this!!!! lol

Oh, deer….

This was one of my all-time favorite strips. Perfect in every respect!

well, he’s not wrong, that’s why there is wars, pandemics and all.

I reserve the right to arm bears.

I wonder how many hunters there would be if the prey was armed also.

I wish we could thin by IQ. But that seems to be automatic with the invention of the selfie stick and the grand canyon.

i see nothing wrong with this cartoon.

This is why they invented Soylent green

I cut this one out and framed it, hung it in my cubicle and everyone that came to talk to me got a belly laugh from it.

The lad makes a very good point.

Definitely one of the most hilariously dark strips in the series run! I love the role reversal with the deer and humans.

Gary Larsen would occasionally slip in similar comics on humanity’s ideas about their sovereignty over ‘the rest’ of nature.

I always think it’s a sad commentary that Calvin’s teacher always wants to squelch the boy’s creativity. Fortunately, most teachers are not like this. However, it’s a very valid criticism by Watterston of those that do (or did).

How the bleep did Watterson get this published and how did Calvin be so… morbid?

And it’s only kept going since.

The kid’s right.

I’m with you on this one, it is probably time to cull the herd.

Simply brilliant.

Calvin will pay deerly for that.

Lordy, I still remember this one (for the nth time) lo, these 30 years after it first came out.

Funny, Funny

When Bambi grew up he didn’t want his sweet name, so he changed it to “BAMBO”.

Unfortunately they didn’t get RFK Jr

Needless to say, I am 100% with the deer population!!!

If the human her got culled, we wouldn’t need to cull the deer herd.

One of my favorite strips of all time.

I love the reference to “Bamb’”. I do wonder, did he shorten the name to avoid altercations with Disney?

Also wonder: did the report on Suzy being eaten by a pack of velociraptors also lead to a parent-teacher conference?

I love how they turned the tables from Bambi (: