Hobbes certainly is literate. He has spoken of both George Orwell and Kafka. Despite his knowledge of these writers, his spelling seems very poor as in last Sunday’s strip where he spelled “Hobbes is great” as “Hobs = grat”.
This aspect of the Calvin and Hobbes relationship seems to be based on Watterson and his younger brother Thomas Watterson who shares the same forename as Thomas Hobbes.
Besides being partly influenced by Bill Watterson’s younger brother and by Thomas Hobbes, Hobbes was also influenced by the kid who lived next door to the Wattersons and was Bill Watterson’s partner in the anti-girl alliance which inspired the GROSS club. He was also influenced by the adult Bill Watterson’s cat Sprite who epitomized Hobbes’s feline characteristics including the tendency to leap on Watterson when he returned home.
BE THIS GUY over 4 years ago
Even Mom has her limits.
Templo S.U.D. over 4 years ago
now why would Calvin even draw mustaches and eyeglasses on own Nuke-Man comic books?
codycab over 4 years ago
Calvin, this couldn’t be any more easy: You leave Hobbes alone, he leaves you alone.
LeeCox over 4 years ago
I love Mom’s amused face in the second panel!
SHIVA over 4 years ago
The little troglodyte is hallucinating again!! Mom, give him a booster dosage of whatever calms him!!
sirbadger over 4 years ago
More super heroes should wear safety goggles. No, no, I don’t need glasses. These are safety goggles for my super hero work.
Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member over 4 years ago
And Nuke Man with moustache turns into Zorro .
hariseldon59 over 4 years ago
I noticed that even though Calvin imagines Hobbes as a real tiger, he doesn’t seem to mind when his mom calls Hobbes a stuffed animal.
BigDaveGlass over 4 years ago
Wow, what a drama queen Calvin is…
rshive over 4 years ago
Give a tiger an inch and he’ll take a mile.
Alexander the Good Enough over 4 years ago
Now there’s a kid with an extremely over-active imagination! He’ll likely make a very good living someday, or else end up in an institution…
jpayne4040 over 4 years ago
LOL! Calvin sure didn’t expect Mom to take Hobbes’s side!
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 4 years ago
Hobbes can be such an Az sometimes. I mean really. Wait, Hobbes is a stuffed tiger. So who is the Az?
jslabotnik over 4 years ago
Is Hobbes one of those no-nukes nut jobs?
A Hip loving Canadian... over 4 years ago
Wow, I expected better manners from Hobbes.
Calvinist1966 over 4 years ago
Hobbes certainly is literate. He has spoken of both George Orwell and Kafka. Despite his knowledge of these writers, his spelling seems very poor as in last Sunday’s strip where he spelled “Hobbes is great” as “Hobs = grat”.
Calvinist1966 over 4 years ago
This aspect of the Calvin and Hobbes relationship seems to be based on Watterson and his younger brother Thomas Watterson who shares the same forename as Thomas Hobbes.
Besides being partly influenced by Bill Watterson’s younger brother and by Thomas Hobbes, Hobbes was also influenced by the kid who lived next door to the Wattersons and was Bill Watterson’s partner in the anti-girl alliance which inspired the GROSS club. He was also influenced by the adult Bill Watterson’s cat Sprite who epitomized Hobbes’s feline characteristics including the tendency to leap on Watterson when he returned home.
SweetSinger over 4 years ago
Hobbes is more literate than many people…
coffeeturtle over 4 years ago
she has her limits when playing along
gantech over 4 years ago
Mom should get a little more upset about this. 30 years from now, mint condition copies of those comic books will be worth thousands of dollars.
Troglodyte over 4 years ago
No nukes is good nukes, Calvin! Now run along…
Robert4170 over 4 years ago
It’s either further evidence of Calvin’s imaginative craziness, or a scheme to get more comic books, because the old ones are “ruined”.
WCraft Premium Member over 4 years ago
As long as Hobbes doesn’t pull Nukeman #1 out of it’s plastic cover and damage it.
Numbnumb over 4 years ago
I think Calvin needs to be evaluated by a Psychiatrist very soon!
hagarthehorrible over 4 years ago
Stop behaving obnoxious Calvin. The feline is just reading few pages.
fireincarnate over 4 years ago
I think that I’ve read every c&h strip there is.
GreggW Premium Member over 4 years ago
Why don’t you get your head examined, Calvin.