Calvin, your 6 years old, you haven’t killed anyone yet, you’ve been to space several times. made Rosalyn work for her money and you just being alive gives Mom & Dad, Rosalyn, Susie lessons in building their character. You’ve been good this year, you’ve done your job.
This just reminded me to look for “Scrooged” this month. The best part to me is the first few minutes—a commercial showing Lee Majors trying to rescue Santa from terrorists in a special called “The Night The Reindeer Died.”
Dear Santa, enclosed please find my wish list. To simplify things I circled the items I wanted on every page. Please ignore the circled Malibu Barbie on page 43 as Hobbes wanted to get that for Suzie so she would smooch him. Ugh Gross! I hope you don’t mind that I enclosed both the Sears Christmas wish book as well as the full Toys R Us catalogues, but neither store listed everything I wanted. Your Pal CalVin.
When you think about it, both this and the previous strip include clueless immediate self-contradictions. “Look, it’s every man for himself in this world. Now give me a boost, will ya?” “Tigers are great at math! Now what do these little horizontal lines mean?”
BE THIS GUY almost 5 years ago
Calvin is always in the Christmas spirit.
Sugar Bombs 95 almost 5 years ago
If Calvin messes with the postman, he’s gonna get coal.
(Anyone who’s seen the recent animated Netflix Christmas movie “Klaus” will get the reference.)
codycab almost 5 years ago
Sorry Calvin. Santa doesn’t carry dangerous stuff with him.
jpkansas78 almost 5 years ago
Why should Hobbes give you a boost? Figure out how to get it in there yourself.
Watcher almost 5 years ago
Calvin, your 6 years old, you haven’t killed anyone yet, you’ve been to space several times. made Rosalyn work for her money and you just being alive gives Mom & Dad, Rosalyn, Susie lessons in building their character. You’ve been good this year, you’ve done your job.
jagedlo almost 5 years ago
Back when you ACTUALLY mailed stuff, instead of sending it online…
HollyStone almost 5 years ago
$2.40 is not that much
lee85736 almost 5 years ago
This just reminded me to look for “Scrooged” this month. The best part to me is the first few minutes—a commercial showing Lee Majors trying to rescue Santa from terrorists in a special called “The Night The Reindeer Died.”
gbars70 almost 5 years ago
Dad gives standard excuse; fax machine is down.
Templo S.U.D. almost 5 years ago
In 2019, how much is $2.40 when inflation had gone up?
ObiJoan almost 5 years ago
Fax? What the fax!
SHIVA almost 5 years ago
Forget the list, just mail yourself to the North Pole.
orinoco womble almost 5 years ago
Calvin and Sally Brown would be a perfect match.
Carolyn Saunders almost 5 years ago
Another who hasn’t quite grasped the concept of “being good”
Howland_Owl almost 5 years ago
Does Santa Claus have an email?
Egrayjames almost 5 years ago
If Calvin gets all the coal he deserves in his stocking, his parents can heat their house all winter.
jpayne4040 almost 5 years ago
What Hobbes should say: "Get your own boost, brat! It’s every man for himself, remember?
cubswin2016 almost 5 years ago
Santa has a list of his own which means that Calvin is in big trouble.
Comic Man X almost 5 years ago
How long did it even take to write that list?
Who, me? almost 5 years ago
This is one of Watterson’s best. There’s a punchline in nearly every box.
KEA almost 5 years ago
Calvin really goes out of his way to avoid being put on the NICE list, doesn’t he?
jrankin1959 almost 5 years ago
Ran out of Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs for breakfast this morning, did we? (And coming down off the sugar?)
A Hip loving Canadian... almost 5 years ago
“Don’t get smart, bub, or I’ll wallop you on the 26th.”
How nice that Calvin also celebrates Boxing Day.
The Pro from Dover almost 5 years ago
And a Ho, Ho, Ho to you too.
BiathlonNut almost 5 years ago
Always love Watterson’s annual Calvin Christmas List trope.
BiggerNate91 almost 5 years ago
The Christmas strips are always some of the best of Calvin and Hobbes.
rshive almost 5 years ago
Not to mention every tiger.
Masterskrain almost 5 years ago
Calvin never really did get a firm grasp on that whole “It’s better to give then receive” thing, did he??
DCBakerEsq almost 5 years ago
Email.
theincrediblebulk almost 5 years ago
Dear Santa, enclosed please find my wish list. To simplify things I circled the items I wanted on every page. Please ignore the circled Malibu Barbie on page 43 as Hobbes wanted to get that for Suzie so she would smooch him. Ugh Gross! I hope you don’t mind that I enclosed both the Sears Christmas wish book as well as the full Toys R Us catalogues, but neither store listed everything I wanted. Your Pal CalVin.
Plumb.Bob Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Krampus will be paying this kid a visit.
WCraft Premium Member almost 5 years ago
20+ years old (the strip) and yet it is still relevant.
BigDaveGlass almost 5 years ago
Yup, there is going to be a cook out this year, I just love that gag….
Stephen Gilberg almost 5 years ago
When you think about it, both this and the previous strip include clueless immediate self-contradictions. “Look, it’s every man for himself in this world. Now give me a boost, will ya?” “Tigers are great at math! Now what do these little horizontal lines mean?”
dimndno almost 5 years ago
Gotta love Calvin!
JudyHendrickson almost 5 years ago
give the brat a lump of coal!!
KallieyBohl almost 5 years ago
yea
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 5 years ago
The kid is indoctrinated with the dog-eat-dog version of life.
MichaelMcGinnis1 almost 5 years ago
This is the longest writing assignment Calvin will complete all year.
Drbarb71 Premium Member almost 5 years ago
A cookout with the stocking contents! LMAO!
xsintricks almost 5 years ago
Give someone a lump of coal who deserves it. Tell ‘em it’s a diamond seed.
Bill-Bob almost 5 years ago
It was yesterday.
Talax almost 5 years ago
People have to turn even an old comic into something about political trash