Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 31, 2021

Another serious discussion between a grown up man with a law degree and a six year old boy.

“The world didn’t turn color until sometime in the 1930s”

-Calvin’s dad in another strip

Calvin likes dark stuff.

For someone who can’t add 5 +4, Calvin exhibits an astounding vocabulary and understanding of the mechanism of sight perception.

Calvin is not wrong.

Not indifferent Physics notions for a child who , at school , is always sent by the principal .

Watterson displays his mastery once again. The light and shadow work is just amazing.

Always liked this strip..

Full credit to Dad for not using colourful language! :D

Logic according to most kids: If they want it, that’s the correct answer.

My kids are like that. It’s their way or “Forget you, Dad.” .

I remember reading in one of the anthologies that Bill had an argument with some marketing guys and the exchange ended in the same way in the final panel. For me, I think this was the start of when Bill decided to stop changing and stay an old curmudgeon. Not an insult, it’s just how he is and he wanted to be happy and at peace. I mean, hell, nobody knows where he lives but it’s somewhere with a newspaper since he was reading Pearls Before Swine and agreed to do a collab with the artist for a week (even revealed that his phobia of using machines was not understated).

Just a shame Hobbes isin’t in it….

Anyone need further proof that Bill Watterson was the greatest cartoonist in history?

What is “chroma”???

Sometimes he´s right, sometimes the coloured bits are people making things too complicated.

I remain amazed that for a kid who hates school and studying that Calvin has such insights and knows words like “hue,” “value,” and “chroma.”

I remember when the answers seemed so clear.

Tracer Bullet would be proud.

Calvin knows all this Physics but he can’t add two single digit numbers?

Another example of Watterson’s genius at art and depth of expression in his strips. Wish he were still active in comic art.

Calvin’s idea of black and white is valid. True or false. A binary view of the world is perfectly valid. Just more complicated than one would think.

Calvin needs to be advanced a grade

During the week, anyway

I’d like to see the rest of this where Dad attempts to help Calvin understand life is not as simple as we wish it would be. There was a daily strip where they started discussing obscene art if I recall. It basically ended where Calvin got upset Dad was trying to lay out that maybe it’s not so simple.

Watterson, Larsen, Trudeau, Schultz. How lucky we are to have their works to enjoy.

Classic

Sometimes, seeing things in ways other than black and white, adds to the confusion.

Love the lack of outlines in the black-and-white parts! Very artistic.

This strip was drawn when Mr. Watterson was having a dispute with the cartoon distribution syndicate.

And yet he’s an innumerate, go figure.

The World IS black and white. There’s my way and there’s the wrong way.

When this strip first appeared and it was delivered to the newspapers, I wonder how many of them called someone up to complain that the coloring of the strip was wrong?

How apropos.

It’s like a TCM movie from the 1930s.

The older I get, the more I realize that nothing is black and white.

First printed 3rd February 1991, just two months before the first part of Sin City, by Frank Miller, was published using the same high contrast art style; must have been something in the air at the time.

THAT is a wonderful comic.

It’s a shame Watterson retired, I’d love to see Calvin and his folks deal with home schooling and this pandemic. ;-)

What a courtesy to the colorists.

A good thing this happened on a Sunday, the one day of the week when he would notice.

Most things are Grey. Some are black or white. Like alternative facts. Those are LIES.

Manichaean moppet.

Life noir..

Spell check keeps changing what I write, this is censorship! Anyway, the cartoonist totally deserves his rep!

Now, how could this possibly turn political in the comment section?

What a dad! Mine would have just said shake it off and go back and do my chores.

Once, when I was little, it was really bright outside, but it was too early to get up. So I got a book, but I couldn’t see the title, for some reason. Ever since, I thought the light did something to the book.

wait a sec…

I’m getting a headache as I look at the panels 1-5.