I bet it was Vincent Price just before the final scene of the original (and BEST version of) “The Fly”. The brain worm of that STILL gives me the willies after all these years. No kidding. “Heelllp me… please heellp me”.
A typewriter! A total blast from the past. That rates right up there with the corded rotary-dialed wall-phone from a few strips back. It was a different world, maybe better…
I had a Siamese cat that would try to type. He jammed up my manual typewriter keys in the middle of the night. Eventually, I bought an unjammable IBM Selectric typewriter. I was interested in what he would produce with it. Unfortunately, it was disappointing – shallow cat-centric plots, full of Siamese bluster and bravado and just awful, awful spelling. :)
BE THIS GUY almost 3 years ago
Bug, pest, both would be accurate.
Templo S.U.D. almost 3 years ago
Oh, the days of yore of utilizing a typewriter which required correction fluid to fix a mistake… or an unintentional side memo.
codycab almost 3 years ago
Not strange, as Calvin has been a bug for a long time.
C almost 3 years ago
You wanted kids
Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member almost 3 years ago
I wonder: did Calvin read Kafka?
Robin Harwood almost 3 years ago
Type writer? What is this type writer thing?
Lightpainter almost 3 years ago
Let’s explain this to Mom- you have one kid. So that means you get one guess.
Concretionist almost 3 years ago
I was immediately reminded of archy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy_and_Mehitabel
whahoppened almost 3 years ago
Well, where’s the White Out?
Johnny Q Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Remember the cockroach jumping on typewriter keys in Don Marquis’ ARCHY AND MEHITABEL?
boniface22 almost 3 years ago
The lost art of handwriting.
in.amongst almost 3 years ago
Some humbug wrote it, mom!
Stocky One almost 3 years ago
Wow…what year was today’s strip originally published?
Red33410 almost 3 years ago
Who wrote, “Help, I’m a bug,” on my letter to Grandma?
PaulAbbott2 almost 3 years ago
Gee Mom, not a lot of choices out there
einarbt almost 3 years ago
How strange indeed.
Count Olaf Premium Member almost 3 years ago
I bet it was Vincent Price just before the final scene of the original (and BEST version of) “The Fly”. The brain worm of that STILL gives me the willies after all these years. No kidding. “Heelllp me… please heellp me”.
welucke almost 3 years ago
archie & mehitabel! How could I have forgotten?
BigDaveGlass almost 3 years ago
Someone needs to be squashed, and need you ask Mum?
sandpiper almost 3 years ago
Gotta love Calvin’s flights of imagination.
jagedlo almost 3 years ago
The amazing thing is that Calvin actually knew how to type!
greyolddave almost 3 years ago
Thats a typewriter she’s using. when was the last time you actually saw one of those. I forgot how long ago he discontinued this strip.
Jhony-Yermo almost 3 years ago
Screaming funny. Laughs, not just smiles.
A Hip loving Canadian... almost 3 years ago
Careful Calvin, medical treatment could come in the form of a straight jacket.
Gandalf almost 3 years ago
And least Calvin can spell.
Alexander the Good Enough almost 3 years ago
A typewriter! A total blast from the past. That rates right up there with the corded rotary-dialed wall-phone from a few strips back. It was a different world, maybe better…
SunflowerGirl100 almost 3 years ago
Anyone else think of Archy and Mehitabel? Archie the cockroach types the way Calvin the Bug types.
gantech almost 3 years ago
Who types letters to grandma?
Myxyzptlyk almost 3 years ago
Archy and Mehitabel
mistercatworks almost 3 years ago
I had a Siamese cat that would try to type. He jammed up my manual typewriter keys in the middle of the night. Eventually, I bought an unjammable IBM Selectric typewriter. I was interested in what he would produce with it. Unfortunately, it was disappointing – shallow cat-centric plots, full of Siamese bluster and bravado and just awful, awful spelling. :)
swanridge almost 3 years ago
You TYPE your letters to Grandma????
bajacalla Premium Member almost 3 years ago
this is my favorite Calvin strip of all time.
kathleenhicks62 almost 3 years ago
The bug bugged.
Sue G almost 3 years ago
Don’t erase it or start over, Mom. Just pick up beneath it. Grandma will understand. She’s met Calvin.
KEA almost 3 years ago
“What’s a typewriter?” I hear puzzled younkers asking
ron almost 3 years ago
Ask a silly question, Mom, and get a silly answer.
mindjob almost 3 years ago
“Help, I’m a bug and being held captive by my evil parents “
TSRaman almost 3 years ago
Shouldn’t the lever for advancing paper be on the other side
Tentoes almost 3 years ago
Archie the Cockroach?
fritzoid Premium Member almost 3 years ago
“CALVINS AREN’T BUGS!”
schaefer jim almost 3 years ago
So to be squashed pest!
stupendous man almost 3 years ago
Typing a letter to Gramma??? My mom would have killed me if I did that. Hand-written. And say please and thank you.
WCraft Premium Member almost 3 years ago
What kind of medical treatment?
Redd Panda almost 3 years ago
A typewriter? Is this strip from 1920?
Otis Rufus Driftwood almost 3 years ago
Calvin did this just to annoy.
rklynch almost 3 years ago
Pretty smart little bug then….
rgcviper almost 3 years ago
I remember, from childhood, when typing something on a typewriter (vs. writing by hand) was a BIG deal. How times change …
AndreasMartin almost 3 years ago
Of course, that was long before autocorrect. Otherwise, granny would have read ‘Hell, I’m buxom.’