Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 28, 2024

Maybe he should read the classics; something like Macbeth.

What if Calvin reads something violent, Mom?

Here’s a little crossover fun from Breaking Cat News:

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Those two should really see a marriage counselor.

Aww, Mom—why did you turn off the TV before it could start dancing in mid-air??

Great artwork, Sam.

This reaction, from a kid who always wants a flamethrower and nuclear weapons for Christmas…

Oh I thought he was just playing with Susie!

See? The TV just had to compete with all the violence in the comics!!! They weren’t REALLY bad until the comics got gory, right?

Right

Is anyone else seeing C&H strips they’ve never seen before? I’ve been reading this online through the last couple of cycles, but today’s strip and a lot of the other Sunday outings are new to me! Must have missed them previously — a nice surprise!

It is a shame that Watterson ended Calvin and Hobbes so soon. He could have stopped doing the dailies and concentrated on doing only the Sundays. The bigger “canvas” gave him the space to experiment and stretch the creative boundaries of his comic strips, as he did with this one, published in 1994, just a few months before retiring.

Go play a video game!

Right, because there is no violence in “Treasure Island”.

There wasn’t any violence on TV when I was a kid. I only watched cartoons like Popeye, Tom and Jerry, and Roadrunner.

Where can I get that comic?

For a second I thought I was on the Liberty Meadows page, then I thought it’s Calvin playing with Suzie. And now I get the joke and the need to go and get breakfast……….

The drawings are amazing. What a genius, Watterson.

Or Hebrews 13:4

See Hebrews 13:4

Do these super heroes and villains spot for each other at the gym? Maybe get a cuppa after? Talk about being bullied in school? Compare their shrinks? Just wondering.

I would so buy this comic book.

Watterson could’ve gotten a job with Marvel or DC. The artwork is fantastic with a great storyline.

If you only knew what he read, Mom…

Yeesh… That’s needlessly graphic!

Come on, Mom! You don’t even know what Calvin was gonna watch!

My 8 year old grandson says he does not like to read. Now that his wandering eye has been corrected, he is still left with the habit of not liking to read. Knowing he might never shake that, I decided to talk up and share my love of Calvin and Hobbes during a few visits, because there is nothing that stimulates the imagination better. He took the bait, hook, line and sinker. During their last visit, he said, “Grandpa, guess what? During Show and Tell, I read four pages from the Calvin and Hobbes you gave me”.

Ahhh… Sundays are so relaxing….

“I could feel my spine shatter.” “It hurt”. “A lot”. Another A+ Sunday strip

Hitting a lady, no less….

I love strips like that that show what a hugely talented graphic artist Bill Watterson is.

These impressions will still be with him in later years

Perhaps something in a nice “Harold and His Purple Crayon”.

Change his reading material.

No Hobbes—-AGAIN!!

No Hobbes,AGAIN!

Violence can un-beget violence too.

I was watching Bizet’s Carmen yesterday. She dies a violent death at the end.

He did, Mom, that’s why he wants to watch TV. It’s less violent.

Susie got even.

When I was a kid we had EC comics and they were so good, they had to ban them!!

a shattered spine does tend to sting a bit…

That is when you take the comic you were reading and hand it to your mother

Obviously, Mom does not monitor what Calvin is reading… LOL

If you only knew.

Hey, I want to know how that ends! Does Amazon lady finally gets the bulky guy to put down the toilet seat?

Does ‘Mom’ even know what Calvin reads ??

I loved when Waterson drew in different styles for the comics. Usually it was adult Calvin and adult Susie.

This “comic book” bit is still one of my all time Watterson favorites. His skills are out of this world!

Amazing artwork.

re: TV violence. When I was a kid, it was called Cronkite. The violence? His broadcasts from Vietnam.

Tell Calvin to read fairy tales – the original Grimm fairy tales. Hint for those who don’t know, those stories are incredibly violent and gory. Disney, etc. watered them down completely.

For someone that hates those kind of violent comics, Bill Watterson sure draws them well! Kind of hard to tell it’s actually a parody of the genre – and a funny one, at that!

If this were in an animated “Calvin and Hobbes” series, I can picture the comic panels being done in a “Picturemation” style, the original artwork with very limited animation effects added and the words appearing in the speech bubbles as they are spoken in real-time.

When I was younger adults would say “Wow, she’s reading such big books! She’s so mature!” They were NOT saying “Wow, those books are made for an older audience and may therefore have content meant for an older audience!”

… with fewer pictures.

nothing beats the late 80’s and early 90’s for gratuitous, graphic violence in comic books. Gotta say Bill draws in that style better than at least 80% of actual comic artists of the time

Or the book I am reading about the Spanish war with the Dutch where they captured 500 soldiers and chucked them in the river through a hole in ice.

Artwork is well done,but it is horrible today. Not for me.

I go to Red and Rover, that is nicer!

I love it when Bill drew these classic comics into Calvin and Hobbes. Really showcases his incredible artistic talent!! He’s brilliant. Wish he had never retired.

Yeah, Calvin, you’re way too young to be reading Garth Ennis.

Wow, Watterson’s artwork is just stunning. The man has mad skills!

Well unfortunately it part of life and you just can not wishes it away.

I just bought the Fantastic Four #3 omnibus for the kids….late 1960’s issues 60 through 100. They love it. Violent, yes, gory, no.

I do give Calvin credit for trying to clear his brain!

Somehow this is one clue that tells me that C&H isn’t meant for young kids like Garfield. (Along with Calvin and his philosophy and general brattiness like wanting to blow up the school)