Those rare moments when Calvin talks directly to the audience. It’s funny looking back at how often that happens (often when Cavin narrates someone like Mo: “He’s not smart, but he’s streetwise. That means he knows what street he lives on”).
I made some comments in two of last week’s sessions which seem to have been misunderstood by some commentators so I would like to clarify them:
I commentated that Bill Watterson has said three times to my knowledge that he didn’t consider Hobbes to be part of Calvin’s imagination. Someone replied that Watterson may not have considered Hobbes to be part of Calvin’s imagination but – by showing that other characters see Hobbes as a stuffed doll – he portrayed him as such. I disagree. I certainly started off assuming that Hobbes was part of Calvin’s imagination but I started to doubt that about four years before I read that Watterson didn’t see Hobbes as imaginary. This is because Hobbes is sometimes shown doing things when Calvin isn’t around, talking to us about Calvin or making comments which Calvin doesn’t understand.
On Friday, someone said that most of the characters in the strip hate Calvin and I replied that Mom and Dad love Calvin and Mom often shows her love while Dad also shows it but much less often. I added that Moe and Rosalyn are the only characters who are really mean to Calvin. Someone spoke up for Rosalyn and implied that Calvin bullies her! I’m aware that Calvin unwittingly brought Rosalyn on himself by being such a brat that no one else will baby sit him but he never bullies anyone and certainly couldn’t bully a teenager. Most of the Rosalyn story arcs have her, a teenager, threatening a six-year-old child but she never threatens him in front of his parents as that might jeopardise her role as baby sitter. Rosalyn is often angry will Calvin whereas Calvin is often terrified of Rosalyn.
It is true that Calvin sometimes takes revenge on Rosalyn and that he may have learned his tactics from Moe. When he stole her study notes and tried to get more favourable treatment, someone said, “How cute! Calvin’s learned extortion at such a young age!” I then replied that he probably learned it from Moe but may have learned it from Rosalyn herself
Flash News Bulletin … a group of protesters is surrounding a tree facility where a meeting of a club named G.R.O.S.S is taking place right now, local authorities have arrived, more details latter this evening.
BE THIS GUY over 3 years ago
And all the club members get important positions.
dadthedawg Premium Member over 3 years ago
You need a gavel, to bring the meeting to order…..
codycab over 3 years ago
For a club that’s against girls, the members sure brag a lot about themselves.
thepinkbaroness over 3 years ago
I see Calvin is still around. Looks like he managed to shed the “mud” name pretty well.
rentier over 3 years ago
Good meetings forever and ever!!
rentier over 3 years ago
Calvin and Hobbes are best!!
Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member over 3 years ago
If Calvin were modest he would be perfect.
Mominexile Premium Member over 3 years ago
Their vocabulary is, indeed, prodigious!
Concretionist over 3 years ago
I’ve worked in places where they thought job titles were worth as much as a raise. And that meetings were actually productive.
I didn’t work in such places for long though.
gawkface over 3 years ago
calvin sucks at maths (well he is creative if not theoretically correct) but he is cognoscenti about literature and art it seems, a boy misunderstood…
Templo S.U.D. over 3 years ago
Is there no other misogynistic club greater than GROSS?
orinoco womble over 3 years ago
Reminds me of my parents’ stint in the masonic organisations, with their Worshipful Masters, Worthy Advisers etc.
Yngvar Følling over 3 years ago
I see that he still uses “Calvin the Bold” in spite of having been dubbed “Mud” by Lord Dad I.
BigDaveGlass over 3 years ago
I wonder why they can’t get more members?
Kind&Kinder over 3 years ago
Self-congratulation does not befit a politician.
Jabroniville Premium Member over 3 years ago
Those rare moments when Calvin talks directly to the audience. It’s funny looking back at how often that happens (often when Cavin narrates someone like Mo: “He’s not smart, but he’s streetwise. That means he knows what street he lives on”).
stillfickled Premium Member over 3 years ago
I skipped half the speeches.
Say What? Premium Member over 3 years ago
Yeesh, even the introductions to these meetings need intermissions.
oldspacehound over 3 years ago
Even though I own all the Calvin and Hobbes books it is fun dropping by here every morning.
tremaine53 over 3 years ago
I. Am. Laughing. So. Hard.
Doug Taylor Premium Member over 3 years ago
Meeting adjourned.
Frank Farkel Premium Member over 3 years ago
Calvin’s real name is Donald.
Who, me? over 3 years ago
Watterson could have surpassed all the great poets if he’d wanted to.
FrankErnesto over 3 years ago
Makes more sense than praying to some invisible person in the sky.
Calvinist1966 over 3 years ago
I made some comments in two of last week’s sessions which seem to have been misunderstood by some commentators so I would like to clarify them:
I commentated that Bill Watterson has said three times to my knowledge that he didn’t consider Hobbes to be part of Calvin’s imagination. Someone replied that Watterson may not have considered Hobbes to be part of Calvin’s imagination but – by showing that other characters see Hobbes as a stuffed doll – he portrayed him as such. I disagree. I certainly started off assuming that Hobbes was part of Calvin’s imagination but I started to doubt that about four years before I read that Watterson didn’t see Hobbes as imaginary. This is because Hobbes is sometimes shown doing things when Calvin isn’t around, talking to us about Calvin or making comments which Calvin doesn’t understand.
On Friday, someone said that most of the characters in the strip hate Calvin and I replied that Mom and Dad love Calvin and Mom often shows her love while Dad also shows it but much less often. I added that Moe and Rosalyn are the only characters who are really mean to Calvin. Someone spoke up for Rosalyn and implied that Calvin bullies her! I’m aware that Calvin unwittingly brought Rosalyn on himself by being such a brat that no one else will baby sit him but he never bullies anyone and certainly couldn’t bully a teenager. Most of the Rosalyn story arcs have her, a teenager, threatening a six-year-old child but she never threatens him in front of his parents as that might jeopardise her role as baby sitter. Rosalyn is often angry will Calvin whereas Calvin is often terrified of Rosalyn.
It is true that Calvin sometimes takes revenge on Rosalyn and that he may have learned his tactics from Moe. When he stole her study notes and tried to get more favourable treatment, someone said, “How cute! Calvin’s learned extortion at such a young age!” I then replied that he probably learned it from Moe but may have learned it from Rosalyn herself
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 3 years ago
I think this is how religions are started.
Redd Panda over 3 years ago
Wouldn’t that make a great introduction for The State of the Union Address? (Just needs a little fine tuning.)
Its just me over 3 years ago
" It’s hard to be humble, when your perfect in every way".
Troglodyte over 3 years ago
Delightfully G.R.O.S.S.!
ImDaRealAni over 3 years ago
PTSD from the Big Nate comments.
awcoffman over 3 years ago
Took me a second reading to recognize the rhymes. And very creative rhymes they are.
flagmichael over 3 years ago
I love the ornate first letter in each speech. Bill Watterson never “phoned it in.”
WCraft Premium Member over 3 years ago
Them boys has got purdy fancy talk, yessum!
delennwen over 3 years ago
I adore Calvin’s (and Hobbes’) poetry. Bill Watterson is a genius.
Richard S Russell Premium Member over 3 years ago
Sheer poetry! Literally!
Carl Rennhack Premium Member over 3 years ago
These two have very bad cases of “I” strain!
cleokaya over 3 years ago
All hail his humbleness, snerk
dbradway1 over 3 years ago
I’m impressed by the vocabularies of a 6-year-old boy and a stuffed tiger.
Dkram over 3 years ago
The one thing that I wonder about is, dose Calvin even know what he’s saying?
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davetb1956 over 3 years ago
If they are that wonderful why do they have to sing their own praises.
DCBakerEsq over 3 years ago
I’m starting a new cryptocurrency – LawDogDollars. Who’s in?
Santaanacanyon1 over 3 years ago
How do I join, lol?
hagarthehorrible over 3 years ago
No doubt with that kind of vocab the club deserves the fame.
liberalnlovinit over 3 years ago
Sheesh. Another Trump Cabinet meeting.
ConnorDiGregorio over 3 years ago
Wow and that is how long my meeting would be and that is just the start?!
JoeMartinFan Premium Member over 3 years ago
“YES, STAND UP AND HAIL HIS HUMBLENESS NOW!” Really, Calvin? From what dictionary did you get your definition of “humbleness”?
felipenollaFFA over 3 years ago
Flash News Bulletin … a group of protesters is surrounding a tree facility where a meeting of a club named G.R.O.S.S is taking place right now, local authorities have arrived, more details latter this evening.
Gent over 3 years ago
Great clubs got G.R.O.S.S.y names!
Jesquire over 3 years ago
This was one of the best of all time.
rick92040 over 3 years ago
That first panel kinda sounded like Trump.
stupendous man over 3 years ago
I can’t believe I just realized this rhymes. How many times have I read this???
Fuzzy Kombu over 3 years ago
One of my all-time favorites. But what is it — dactylic tetrameter? (As if it mattered.)
PaulInMiami over 3 years ago
“Humility, and How I Obtained It,” a treatise by Calvin & Hobbes