Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 26, 2015

The neighbors are going to embarrass Calvin with photos when he grows up.

Your clothes must’ve burned off. Oh wait, they didn’t! They were saved by water.

Calvin’s mom wonders how Calvin can get undressed and disappear so quickly. It’s like the kid just evaporates into thin air.

I feel your pain, Cal. When the dog days of summer roll around, there’s only so much clothing you can take off. In winter you can always add layers.

There’s also a baby in “One Big Happy” who runs naked throughout the neighborhood. I can’t remember his name.

I love the ‘again’.

Nothing cuter than naked little squishy babies that have just learned to walk, then take of running: laughing and giggling all the way (I miss those days).

You’re working in the wrong place. I haven’t worn a tie since I was interviewing for jobs in 2008. I wear polo shirts and trousers in the summer. A few guys wear shorts, but I rarely do even on weekends – I grew up in a tourist-trap town, and strongly associate shorts with a**hole tourists.

I love the heat and going barefooted and wearing shorts.

It didn’t work then, and it REALLY doesn’t work now. (Today, they give you a TV show…)

During my younger life, I always used to bemoan the fact that I didn’t have a girlfriend. Note: what I really wanted was to impress the “more beautiful” people in life (i.e., anyone else but myself!). I didn’t yet realize what a gift it truly was (and still is) to be single and unattached (at 54). No girlfriend, wife, or kids to contend with; there sure is a lot to be said for personal freedom!

I’d wager Calvin’s mom only has herself to blame for making Calving play outside in the first place.

Don’t look Ethyl!

Well Mom, into every life a little Calvin must fall…

Back in the late 1960s, there was a goofy character camping out near our Savage, Minnesota store. He drove around in a van with these words printed on the side:Wanted: 100 virgins! Go nude, nature is the healer!

He called himself “Professor so & so” (I can’t recall the name), and had a long white beard and skin that looked like worn out leather. He was eventually asked to leave and pretty much disappeared; I hope without his virgins…

That’s me in the first few panels.

Can’t stand the summer.

xxx

This was just about my favorite Calvin and so glad to see it again.

And away to Susie’s house to gross her out

To the comic from yesterday!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcq0QKRFVs8

Don’t worry, I only go out in the heat when I really have to. Like if I need to go somewhere.

Mostly I just stay in the house with the electronic fans blasting.

Maybe they should move to a nudist camp so Calvin won’t be so conspicuous.

I was born that way… I want to go out the same way!

I really don’t think he cares that much.

Is nudity worth so much agitation?

Yep—many kids are natural nudists. The privacy impulse tends to kick in at about age six.