Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 12, 2023

Plan B: Destroy the snow woman.

The snowman’s pose is the best part. It looks like he’s proud of showing off his second carrot.

Best to not ah, erect it in plain sight of Mom’s window

How do those kids create a snowperson more than twice their height?

Snow balls?

When life gives you 2 lemons, you add them to your snowman.

He moved the carrot down a few feet.

Only Calvin would make an X-rated snowman!

Maybe the snow woman needs two more pieces of coal to highlight her femininity.

I don’t know what the big deal is. . . . It only takes an extra carrot and a couple more lumps of coal!

Balls to that…….

Is the snowman’s name Ken?

There is nothing for me to say ! ! ! !

No need to get testy about it, Mom.

Aw Mom, just when Calvin was having a ball…or two!

Today is my oldest nephew’s forty-fourth birthday. I was one of two twelve-year-old uncles in my class. When I was twenty, I began reading Calvin and Hobbes. When I was twenty-one, I bought my first Calvin and Hobbes collection, “Something Under The Bed Is Drooling” and later lent it to my nephew who was then nine. When he brought it back to me, he remarked that sometimes it is hard to tell whether or not something is in Calvin’s imagination or a real part of a story. He asked me whether Hobbes is supposed to be real. I replied that I thought Hobbes was part of Calvin’s imagination. I was already having doubts about that. My nephew replied that he thought so too but some strips suggested otherwise which I agreed with. When I was twenty-five and my nephew was thirteen, I read Bill Watterson’s comment “I suspect he’s more real than any kid could make up.” I showed this to my nephew but he had already decided without Watterson’s help that Hobbes wasn’t part of Calvin’s imagination.

Give him some underwear.

You know how dire the situation is when Mom comes out without putting on a jacket!

I remember years ago we lived in a 3rd-floor apartment. From our front window we could see the parking lot for the high school. One morning I looked out & saw a 6’ tall snow p*nis. It didn’t stay there long.

Decades ago one of my co-workers made a snow woman in front of his apartment. He used two large clay flower pots, appropriately positioned, as foundation devices. He said he chose his fiancée as the model.

Bill Waterson : You HAVE, to be the biggest kid on the planet !

Susy started it….

Well endowed? Just asking for a friend.

You showed the breasts but not the….that’s sexist!

What a boob…

AAAAAAAaK‼️

lmao

I used to not understand this when I was much younger.

and put that baseball bat back in the house

It’s not the snow woman’s fault. She’s just made that way.

His posture reminds me of the guy “hidden” in the camel picture on Camel cigarettes…

Ooh, how risque! I’m shocked you could get away with the implications in the comics page of thirty years ago.

When my twin daughters were about 4 or 5; I helped them build a snow woman in our backyard.

They shrink? I don’t know how you guys walk around with those things. . . .

The hands on the hips are what really sells it for me.

And how excited was his snowman to see the snow-woman?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl1PCf3yFzc

Sorry, Calvin, but you’ve got to understand, carrots are EXPENSIVE these days. So we can’t afford more than one on that snowman.

Sooo… The backyard then?

But, Mom!!!!

There’s more to being anatomically correct than just visible genitalia, of course…

Just use a bent carrot.

and where would he put the carrot…

That is a very proud snowman.

I stuck a carrot down in the manly regions once on a snowman, but it was in the backyard out in the country, so no one saw it.

Leave it to a six-year-old boy to object to the very idea of a snowwoman.

Is it cut or uncut?

Calvin has built the John Holmes of snowmen. Cue the disco music!

Calvin has congenital genitalia syndrome!!!!

Watch where he puts the carrot

The ’toon got me laughing; your comments made me take my glasses off to dry my eyes. ROFLMAO.

Thank you all so much.

I wonder if Bill Watterson’s first drawing of this comic was rejected by the editors and he had to redo it with the snowman looking the other way.

One time in the snow at Washington State University, someone made an anatomically correct, uh, piece of anatomy. It made the yearbook.

Not just funny, hilarious!

Mom only discovered his realistic snowman when she found her zucchini was missing. ;-p

https://youtu.be/j8MKlOwmIrY

Susie’s Mom appears to be a bit more permissive then Calvin’s.

she started it