Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 08, 2023

Maybe it will match Hobbes furniture when spring comes.

Your signature isn’t going to last, Calvin.

whatever, Calvin

Put a banana indide a frame and you will be successful.

Trump’s NFT’s have set the benchmark for SFA’s.

Note that Watterson has framed the landscape that Calvin is signing.

And it should be “who’s putting on whom”. Six-year-olds should know that, Calvin.

Modern art is not about exhausted styles or purpose. It’s about convincing the buyers that there is style or purpose (in what really has no style or purpose).

NFTs anyone?

A tiger’s fur-niture? Is that a fir-veneer chair…

Have you seen Hobbes latest collection?

Yet another example of Calvin not being sure what Hobbes means.

Calvin DeKlein

“Any fool can paint a picture. It takes a wise man to sell it.”

Writing his name in the snow with a stick wasn’t Calvin’s first choice, but Watterson had to please the publishers.

Cal’s not the first to be denied credit for something done by Nature.

The Count finds the idea of a snow covered hillside or forest (or etc) being God’s snow sculpture quite uplifting and calming

Let’s hope there are a few more things to say, Calvin.

I have a vision of the whole pantheon of artists who worked before 1900 looking down on modern art and either crying or laughing.

https://www.prageru.com/video/why-is-modern-art-so-badAn opinion I agree with.

“Whom”, not who. The artistry in language police hath spoken.

Funny how something can be so significant to someone as to be priceless and yet worthless to someone else who can actually put a price on it.

kinda like an NFT? or ntf or lsmft or I’m confused.

Unfortunately, in a few years it will have been turned into a subdivision or worse, a strip mall.

Put your own funny answer on this:

Put AI Art, NFTs, and Cryptocurrency in a box, shake it up real good, open the box and whadda ya got?

Nothing!

This is my favorite Calvin & Hobbs. I studied art under some avant-garde “professors” in college. After a couple years, I dropped out and soon quit trying to be an artist.

I think Calvin would have probably signed it in yellow.

Love Hobbes !

It’s like those people who think they can own a giant, gas-guzzling SUV “ironically”.

I have a feeling Bill is not only a great artist, but a great entrepreneur. Unfortunately he did not cash on his ability. And we love him the most for this.

I’ve got 8 inches of snow sculpture all over my neighborhood. Didn’t pay a dime.

Tom Wolfe explained this in THE PAINTED WORD as the (d)evolution to Conceptual Art:”There,at last, it was! No more realism, no more representation objects, no more lines, colors, forms, and contours, no more pigments, no more brushstrokes. Art made its final flight, climbed higher and higher in an ever decreasing tighter turning spiral until . . .it disappeared up its own fundamental aperture. . .and came out the other side as Art Theory!”

Whom.

Brilliant

With the rise of AI art, this is still relevant today.

‘Modern Art’ is not about aesthetics, or so I’m told. I may not know art, but I know I what I hate.

Early NFT

Just throw a couple buckets of paint, then sign it, charge to see it…

That’s like the musician who sits outside without an instrument and records the sounds around him.

You have to do something to call it art, but very little. Snow angels perhaps

Here we go; now we are back in 1993. I figured they were trying to re-sync the Sunday strips so they’re in the same week as the dailies.

Art is whatever you can get away with.

Non Fungible Terrain!

Who’s putting on whom.

Could have been written this morning.

He should check up at the “Lola” strip. I think there may be a market for him there.

Future Donald Trump NFT?

Surprised he signed with a stick as opposed to peeing in the snow.