Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 07, 2022

He’s planning on moving the operation to Vietnam.

So where will Santa relocate now that the Arctic polar ice is disappearing?

Sorry Calvin. That’s on a need-to-know basis.

Does anyone know why Calvin and Hobbes has been updating later than usual recently?

Sorry Cal Baby, Santa knows all!

Sound strategy. I don’t know if the tactics will work.

oh, so that is why Greta Thunberg is always so angry…

My grandkids ( aged 8, 7, 6, and 4 ) have figured out that mom and dad don’t have a lot off money. They’ve decided that the wish list to Santa has the expensive toys and the wish list to mom and dad is the cheap toys.

No worries Calvin, he relocated to China after they joined the WTO.

Santa now gets all the things you were worried about and no chance of unions either.

Cal’s aiming to become a ‘lobbyist.’

If he is lucky, it will go directly into Santa’s spam folder.

i doubt that a time traveler like Santa Claus is worried about such petty things as operating costs.

I think he’s actually in Antarctica, the north pole thing is just to throw everyone off track. :-)

Calvin and Poncho (from ‘Pooch Cafe’) deserve each other.

Cheap labor keeps Santa up north. He couldn’t do it elsewhere.

Accusing the accuser – one of the weakest approaches ever.

Hmmm…. good question. I have no answer.

Gotta love Cavin’s logic, too…

My uncle married a really cold lady.

She’s my Aunt Artic.

“Dear Calvin, it is mainly so the elves can work 24 hour daylight shifts during the summer peak toy-making season.”

If that doesn’t work, tell him about the compromising photos you have.

Practically telling someone they’re a cheapskate is NOT the way to get on someone’s good side Calvin.

This criticism is why Santa is an alcoholic now

Santa works for Apple.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrnU-N8BBmw

Mom, Dad. whatever you do DO NOT tells Calvin Santa lives in the hearts of children….I shudder to think of how his search would end.

I never considered that Watterson has practiced Calvin’s handwriting along with a whole different font for his speech. I could write like he talks but not like he writes.

No, you’ll just annoy him, Calvin.

For the same reason that Superman’s Fortress of Solitude is in the Arctic.

You’re overthinking this, Calvin.

Floating factory already

All good points bar the ‘fact’ that Santa lives in Finland.

This is how you get on the permanent naughty list.

This has nothing to do with this strip. But I had a dream last night that reminded of an older strip. Once there was a Sunday strip where Calvin was unable to get to sleep. He heard his mother was up, and he thought she was having trouble getting to sleep. Instead she was telling Calvin to get up. It turned out Mom was waking him up for school. And that Calvin said that was not good for his day. In my dream, I got up and checked my alarm and I had only been asleep for an hour. I then went back to sleep but in my dream it was Sunday when I usually have the most trouble sleeping anyway. I actually slept the better part of the night. My day was a typical Wednesday for me.

tired

Putting Santa on the defensive isn’t a good tactic. At least it never worked for me…