Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 04, 2017

They were, but most of the canneries are now automated.

If I didn’t know better, I’d say that Calvin was talking to his father rather than Hobbes.;-D

Looking at the clothes Mom is putting away, I think Calvin has 10 of the same shirts.

Don’t be silly Calvin. Child labor laws say that you can only be forced to work eight hours in the cannery.

I live in Monterey, our canneries burned down years ago. Nothing on Cannery Row now but tourists, and me on the w/e’s I like to ride my bike down there and people watch. Interesting critters! AU -

You could always get a job in the cannery back home. Fifty cents an hour. Interesting times. No seven year olds, but a lot of teenagers back in the 1940s.

I remember when my sister and I ganged up on my brother and nearly convinced him he had been adopted. The joke was he was older than both of us, and remembered us being born!

As far as I know, there are only tuna canneries in my area

She also didn’t tell you that she’s a monster from outer space.

i love this strip, have been a follower for decades..most of all I adore that Hobbes..just LOOK at that drawing in the last box, what a great expression and attitude, all in a stuffed animal..LOOK at those feet!

The kid has a great imagination.

No work in the cannery for you, Calvin. Only the best — the coal mines,

This was changed in The Complete Calvin and Hobbes. “Mom, was I genetically engineered or cloned?”

I blame Charles Dickens.

No canneries left in North America. All that stuff is done on the ship in the South China sea.

Panel 2 – He must have read Charles Dickens – his life as well as his fiction.Panel 3 – He must have read Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”>

Would have been funnier if Calvin just said “dad.”

this is not today’s strip! i have the books and i saw this during 2015!

So Hobbes has been feeding Calvin fake news. And even has the conspiracy angle figured out to cover it!

Being adopted isn’t bad

@snakemama — and from reading history. child labor isn’t that far back in the U.S. and Euro past and still exists, unfortunately. probably some materials in your (and my) electronics and clothing obtained with child labor.

I still said it was my brother Andy who filled my head with those ridicules ideas.

Ernie Bushmiller once gave us a peek inside Nancy’s closet — an entire wall of identical outfits!

Hobbes does have a point. Only a little kid would take his mother at her word on a matter like this.

Why yes, you were adopted. Twice, in fact, but the people brought you back both times.

In the 10th anniversary collection, Watterson said he received some nasty mail over this one.

Parents are just as sneaky as their kids!

xxx

One of my all time favorite C&H strips……… ;-)

poor calvin! :)

I like to idea of forced labor for Cal in a cannery.

Oh, that bad, bad tiger! roflol

“snakemama said, about 15 hours agothat’s what comes from reading fairy tales…the brothers grimm were grim”Mother Goose was no better.