Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 17, 2022

Too many big words for me…..

Scamming people before it was cool. Now that’s avant-garde.

Irony is dead.

Still not as ironic as Calvin working hard on something and NOT passing school.

of course

I guess you become an artist by couching your work with high falutin’ words that seemingly only the elite can understand.;-D

Calvin has a pretty impressive vocabulary for a kid his age.

It looks like this was drawn by somebody who knows art.

Calvin, you crypto-hipster you.

Yup, the fallacy of "good ’ol days ".. never fails to sell.

Get this to a museum before it melts!

I figured this out. Modern music becomes “just noise” as people lose the top range of their hearing and the lyrics become unintelligible, not because they are but because we can no longer hear them clearly. Likewise, we look fondly on our youth not because those days were any better but because we were less critical and our bodies didn’t hurt all the time or let us down when we wanted to do something.

Wasn’t the avant-garde movement 50 years ago the hippy, flower power movement of Haight Ashbury, Woodstock, Carnaby Street, Beatlemania, and Easy Rider fame? That snowman looks more like Will Geer, Grandpa Walton, from 80 years ago.

Aw heck, Calvin. Just take a picture of it and sell it as a NFT. Clean up on the fools while you can…

“Simple values of rural America”??

Does that mean replacing flush toilets with outhouses??

It’s a hipster snowman, you’re only allowed to like it ironically.

Eat your heart out, Andy Warhol.

Unrelated but maybe Calvin wouldn’t hate girls so much if he had a twin sister

I read these strips as a kid. I had no real idea what Calvin was talking about, but I enjoyed it anyway. Weird, that…

I don’t get art sometimes. Is this like duct taping a banana to a wall and selling it for big bucks…?

Well I never made a dime off any of the snowmen I built. I guess I just don’t know marketing the way some people do.

When my son was in high school, he wrote a report about a visit to a local art museum. His theme was that so much of “art” is really untalented nonsense that’s called “avant-garde.” His report included this strip as well as others from C&H that ridicule the art form and the artists. He got an A+ and special commendation.

Watterson also talks about this in some of his books.

Tribute to Jim Anderson..Father knows Best

Calvin has been talking to Petey from Cul de Sac again.

If it’s secret, how will the public fall for it?

Everything is avant-garde as long as someone “cool” says it is. Nothing is avant-garde unless someone “cool” says it is. No one who is really “cool” says anything is “avant-garde”.

A snowman with a snow shovel, looks suspicious to me…

So Calvin invented Cottage-core?

Strip dated 1992. Ironic that they eventually wound up building a political party to feed off that nostalgia for a time that never existed. smdh

American (Ironic) Gothic – another crypto-cryo-anthropomorphic art fad.

Nostalgia: A fiction you sell to people to distract them from the fact that they’re old and they’re going to die soon.

Reminds me of when Calvin passed off such a snowman as a “generic snowman”… https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1995/12/26

Next week, after sun has been out and temps above freezing for several days: “Check out my Salvador Dali Snowman…”

Wait until Calvin’s father starts looking for his hat and smoking pipe!

Give it a pitchfork and it’ll be art.

People who do art or fashion “ironically” are saying “I’m doing this because I think it looks awful and I’m embracing my bad taste”. If they’re right, they should be avoided because of bad design. If they’re wrong, they should be avoided because they have no design sense.

Reminds me of all the fricking snow I moved over 60 plus years. Good old days my cold ass!

Looks Avante Gauche to me

Ceci n’est pas une pipe.

Irony rules.

Careful Calvin. In 13 years, you’ll be that nostalgic 50-year-old.

Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be.

aren’t we all

Watterson versus ‘modern art’. And consumerism.

At least that snowperson looks normal. Not funny, but normal.