Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 04, 2021

Canada is closer and they speak English up there.

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Happy Independence Day, Americanos!

It’s Independence day, but not for Calvin.

You will be conspicuous, the only kid going the other way at the border…..

Was the car transmogrifiered?

But we would like to have them in México (at least Hobbes)

“El Fugitivo” was on Spanish TV when this strip first came out. Apparently it was huge. Never watched it.

Better not be my 2009 Nissan GT-R.

I guess that as with the Salamander Incident and the Noodle Incident, we’re meant to imagine for ourselves what happened to Dad’s car and why Calvin asks Dad whether he remembers it as if it no longer existed!

Love Hobbes’ expression in second to last frame.

“Well it was in the way, who keeps a car in the garage anyway, all I did was take the handbrake off……”

Adios, Calvin!

Today’s strip reminds me of the later story arc in which both Calvin and Hobbes tried running away from home after Hobbes helped Calvin move the car – and it rolled into the ditch. Hobbes isn’t at all to blame this time so he doesn’t try to run away with Calvin.

Hobbes is partly based on Bill Watterson’s brother Tom. This is especially obvious in strips where Calvin and Hobbes share Calvin’s bedroom. I suspect that both incidents where Calvin tries running away when he is afraid that he has damaged a parent’s car are based on a real-life incident from Watterson’s childhood – possibly involving both Watterson brothers.

He should have said, ¡Yo soy el fugitivo!

Okay, I’m not saying running away is a good idea, but I suspect a little distance between him, the scene of the crime and the pending interrogation/punishment is not a bad idea.

This conjectural moral question is making my head spin.

Cartastrophe?

Donde esta el automovil?

This is one of my all time favorite strips—all of it and especially the punchline

our borders are still closed…

May the fourth be with you….stay safe. ;)

If Calvin’s going to be a fugitive, he might as well change his name to Richard Kimble…

Calvin is nothing more than a fugitive from reality.

This is just so funny! No wonder these people only had 1 child … Lordy!

¡Soy un fugitivo!

You can tell this is an earlier strip by the pads on Hobbes’s handpaws.

Gee. What did he do exactly?

Pretty bad…

oh boy, what did he do this time…