Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 17, 2013

Good point.

Is that panel illustrating Moe pounding him?

conform. war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength.

I think Calvin is gifted and his teachers don’t realize it because he acts out when he’s bored.

Just wait until Calvin gets his first job, if this is how he views school. He’s got no clue!

Lots of green,milk,fish,etc.And when you get that kind of experience in one school day,I envy you.

Calvin has a future as a scriptwriter for TV shows…and potential for other jobs that require imagination.

Sad, but true, and true!!

great comic mind at work, illustrating so many ways that society molds our babies minds. art stupendous also. great strip, great ideas, beautifully rendered.

Went to an event at a local high school a few years back. I was sitting there watching it with the students on the other side. Something about them struck me that Ii just couldn’t place. Finally realized that almost all of them had some kind of denim on. -——————————————————If you’re going to be non-conformist, I guess it’s good to wear the same non-conformist stuff as everyone else.

Nothing typical about Calvin.

Poor Calvin. And you dont even get paid for such a hard day.

Calvin knows: imagination makes a bad day better.

I recall a strip where Calvin said he didn’t want to learn anything. Hobbes asked if it was a right to be ignorant, and Calvin said “I don’t know, and I refuse to find out!”

oh boy nice to meet you… _…

Its an incredibly entertaining comic strip! Watterson’s imagination is off the charts!And some of Frazz’s readers complain he is too smart!

A wonderful strip, perfectly captured what Calvin’s day is like

A kid like Calvin would typically founder in traditional schooling, but in some place alternative (such as the Sudbury model), he would thrive. In Sudbury kids have total freedom to do whatever they want-imagine that? Eventually they discover their passion and run with it.

I am with you, why read comics if is not fun.

Brought to mind Supertramp’s Roder Hodgson singing “The Logical Song..”

LIghten up already. It’s the comics

No, but I was a school crossing guard in sixth grade.

After almost 33 years, I can still recite every dialogue I memorized in my high-school Spanish class and the first 18 lines of Chaucer’s Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, which I was required to memorize and recite for one of my Shakespeare classes in high school. As for State capitals? Yes, I still remember them!

 

To all my friends here at “Calvin & Hobbes” . . .

i Love this strip, Bird-calvin in panel 6 is so funny!

…normally, i find legaleagle48’s comments overly harsh, but i feel the need to defend him today – there is nothing wrong with calvin learning discipline – no matter what he does later in life, discipline will be a requirement. everybody can feel as sorry as they want for calvin here, i feel badly for him myself, but it is the sort of badly that i’d feel for a kid who has to go to the dentist for a filling, or taking a pet to the vet for it’s shots – you can’t really explain to them why it’s necessary, and it’s obvious they’d rather be ANYWHERE else doing ANYTHING else – too bad…this is necessary, and it will happen. you have to learn SOME self discipline, you have to get SOME education. you can’t get anywhere without being able to read and write and do some math (just ask anybody who didn’t get taught how to do so)…and, you have to learn how to learn – that is one of the most important lessons…besides, calvin wouldn’t cherish his free time with hobbes if he didn’t have something to escape from…

The fish must represent him getting home. Beautiful strip today.

I wish, I would be able to do such great drawing!!

Nice guess, but I never married or had children — most gay men have a tendency not to, for reasons that should be fairly obvious!

HAPPY ST.PATRICKS DAY C&H FANS

Ray49FL. Love that one.And yes @legaleagle48, lighten up. It is only a comic. If you put all that passion into quashing ‘entitlement’ programs that encourage people to be on the dole, there just might be a smiggeon of hope for society and thereby make education worth acquiring.

this is cute. Calvin going to school, getting bored and feeling forced till he can’t think straight. It’s life as we know it. Sorry Calvin.

That is how I feel at work.

Or the kid who reminded the teacher to assign homework…

Perhaps _____ could develop a comic strip about a well-adjusted child from an average family who applies himself to his studies in order to become a productive member of society. Now try to find an audience for that!!!

The prison stripes suit him well.

Calvin the peg being hammered into his hole is perfect.

Love the artwork today. Really creative.

“When I think back to all the crap I learned in high school…..” (or something like that) — apologies to Paul Simon, couldn’t resist. One of my teachers told me “I’m afraid of you” because I was scoring off the charts on the “tests” and I was also a non-conformist. Creative kids don’t fare well in regimented schools, but they go on to do great things.

“When I think back on all the crap I learned in highschool,It’s a wonder I can think at all.But my lack of education hasn’t hurt me none.I can read the writing on the wall.

KodachromeGimme those nice, bright coloursGimme the greens of summersMakes you think all the world’s a sunny day (oh yeah)I got a Nikon cameraLove to take a photographMama don’t take my Kodachrome away."

(Paul Simon, of course.)

D.E.V.O.