Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 15, 2023

Calvin devoted all his creativity and energy to coming up with a name.

Okay, so this isn’t relevant to the above strip, but I got some big news for you fellow Calvin and Hobbes fans.

After nearly three decades of retirement (and the occasional side project such as a guest illustrator for Pearls Before Swine), Bill Watterson is coming back to work on a new graphic novel called The Mysteries. https://www.simonandschuster.ca/books/The-Mysteries/Bill-Watterson/9781524884949

I can’t even begin to describe how amazing it is to see him do a big project again.

Calvin is terrible at being both a role model and a roll model.

And the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France, is just a stone arch, Calvin.

I’m surprised that he hasn’t built a catapult yet.

It will look like slush. Be patient.

The guy in North Korea is into “heroic” sculptures & statues!!

Watterson loves to do irony.

I will perservere for as long as… eh, let’s watch TV.

Sometimes this happens to me. I make big plans to create something, start working on it, and then get bored and quit right after starting

Do admire the perseverance of boredom.

Maybe he took inspiration from Mount Rushmore. Washington has a dress shirt, but Lincoln doesn’t even have an ear.

Triumphantly persevering for another day!

Better than some of the “art” that’s out there!

That’s just one of his toes?

He just doesn’t want to admit that no way could he lift the next section to get it atop the first.

nicely played

I wished it looked like that outside where I live instead of having Temps 20 degrees above what they should be this time of year. GRRR!

Pretty dang big snowball, though. That had to require more perseverance than I could personally summon.

Calvin just came up with the meaning of life, that snow did not exist there yesterday, he built it to what he considered perfection, and then soon, not a trace of it will exist! This would be a good time to take a picture so it will be remembered!

That didn’t take long…spray colored water on it and make a rainbow….

Perseverance will always lose to boredom…

I’m afraid that describes me.

Love Hobbes…

Perseverance takes a break.

It’s still a perfect title.

Just not for the same reason.

Just find a hill and let nature and gravity do all the work for you. Nobody will ever know you gave up so easily.

You’re goon to quit?

(≖_ʖ ≖)

Perseverance sometimes is the fuel that powers invention. Sometimes it is the sand in the gears.

Calvin may be bored, but he is never boring.

That is SO ADHD…

Perseverance pays off eventually. Laziness pays off right now!

Relatable

Many of the world’s masterpieces were never finished, like Venus De Milo

Calvin is too young and fickle.

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