Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 03, 2020

Don’t listen to your Dad, Calvin. Mail the pics to National Geographic. I’m sure they will make a generous offer.

My parents would’ve played along with my fantasies instead of mocking me like that. :(

Plastic? How dare you! I was close enough to smell that dino’s breath! It smelled like Cheez-Its… :’(

Your over active imagination is going to make you a laughing stock, Calvin. That’s what we’re ALL insinuating.

I used to look at my dinosaurs through my telescope because they looked bigger.

That was very quick D and P! Same day service.

The harsh realities kick in eventually, maybe leaving the “Made in China” label on the dino’s was a mistake…

Dad, pls don’t insinuate our fearless explorer Dick Attabro.

The paleontologist needs for encouragement, dad!

Only the very special dinosaurs were made of plastic.

I have just one word for you, Benjamin. Plastics!

The other way around: plastic is made from oil, and oil is made from dinosaurs.

Dad doesn’t realize a lot of things.

Poor Dad. Poor Calvin! He didn’t know about selfies. Without himself in the pictures to prove he was there, National Geographic won’t pay him a dime. Don’t ask me how I know.

Dad actually let Calvin use his camera and paid for developing the prints?! Wonders will never cease.

Poor Calvin isn’t ready for all the critics that are out there.

Calvin needs to find out why his dad is a science denier. All the proof that is needed is right there.

Repurpose the photos. Instead of trying to sell them to the Museum of Natural History, sell them to the Modern Art Museum as a new kind of exprssionism.

Hobbes has more in common with those dinos than he thought!

I was wondering what those pictures were going to turn out to be.

They fossilized into plastic? That’s sounds like a world-shaking discovery to me…

That is one articulate 6yo! ;o]

Wrong lens. In those days, a cheap lens could make King Kong look small and plastic (especially those small, plastic lenses). :)

They must be from the Plasticine Period… ☺

Dang… I forgot how good “Calvin and Hobbes” is…. I have to put it at the top of my queue.

A welcome return to reality…and sanity?

Trolling your own son. One of the joys of fatherhood.

Technically, small, plastic dinosaurs ARE derived from former dinosaurs.

Another twist.

I remember cameras that used film. I don’t think many kids would be allowed to use them to take unsupervised pictures… it was too expensive.

Well, darn, I was really hoping he had taken close-ups of insects. Like a rhinoceros beetle, which is certainly a miniature dinosaur.

OK, I hate to be a Sheldon Cooper. But this give me pause that it might all be in Calvin’s head (or he was playing). Shocking, right?

Oh, Just play along dad.