Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 06, 2014

Responsibility and parenthood kills the coolness instinct.

How about “googly” eyes?! ;)

A couple of strips from the first year of Calvin and Hobbes:Click here: Calvin and Hobbes (March 28, 1986)Click here: Calvin and Hobbes (September 20, 1986)The word “cool” was still in use 26 years later (and counting):Click here: Zits (April 9, 2012)

Do they even make yellow striped contacts?

@HobbesYeah, what moronbis said goes for me too.

Wait, Calvin! Then they become grandparents and find their cool again! :)

Grow old if you must but never grow up.

@moronbis and @leftwingpatriot: Thanks for your thanks. Glad you enjoy the strips. I enjoy sharing some of my favorites with others, and I think good comic strips are, well……. cool………

but “cool” keeps changing – when i was a younker, it meant reserved, aloof, and the opposite of attention-gathering

THE IDEA OF COOL JUST CHANGES DEFINTION WHEN WE GROW UP

My sister got some beautiful green ones when contacts were first available, she got so many compliments!!!

Don’t forget Snoopy as “Joe Cool.”

And then there’s Marty Feldman eyes.

Sorry, Calvin, I think it starts even earlier than that.

Since I was a kid in the 50s, “cool” has meant pretty much the same thing. Probably predated me by a couple of generations, and I suspect has its roots in Jazz. The Beat Generation certainly picked it up as their own. My problem now is figuring out what “kewl” means…

Mom is on the typewriter, gotta love it

Cool: *Slang use for “fashionable” is 1933, originally Black English, said to have been popularized in jazz circles by tenor saxophonist Lester Young. *Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper

It’s like I tell my four sons: “Your mom and I used to be a lot of fun. Then we had kids.”

I think being cool is swell!.Yes, I said “swell”…

What bug has eyes like that anyway?

How about we make ’em black and blue?

For Hobbes, cool is removing your eye.

Contacts can feel uncomfortable.

One blood red eye and one yellow striped eye?Creepy.xxx

But Calvin’s eyes don’t have any color. Even in the colored Sunday strips they’re just black and white.

Don’t knock typewriters. Russian hackers can’t steal your identity from them. I wouldn’t be surprised if they came back into style. (Royal still makes a few models -you can buy them on Amazon.)

Calvin and his pet tiger Hobbes are asking Calvin’s mother for contact lenses. He wants to change the color of his eyes. Of course, Calvin’s mother thinks this is a poor idea, but instead of Calvin being thankful that his mother is looking out for him, he thinks she doesn’t understand what cool is. Hobbes then ate a tuna-fish sandwich.

Thanks, @Ginger V, @Gweedo, and @rgcviper. By the way, I check back with the previous day’s comments on the next day or two, so I always see the late comments that people post.

“Cool” is a state of being: Calvin