Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 08, 2024

It’s Calvin’s art project.

Calvin would disagree with you there, Dad. Even if it’s just one assignment, it would still be too much.

Calvin’s greatest snow art ever…it seems physically impossible, especially for a six year-old…and his dad just thinks Calvin’s school doesn’t assign enough homework?

It only happens when his medication wears off!!

And it still never occurred to Calvin’s parents his true talent, what their kid might excel at in the future.

You have to admire talent when you see it.

While everyone admires the C&H snowman cartoons (of which there were many), nobody ever thinks to thank Bill Watterson for his kindness in giving the colorist an occasional day off.

At least Calvin cleaned up most of the snow

Calvin was the Snow artist of his generation.

And I think Dad is a humorless jerk!!

I love the strips focusing on Calvin’s snow creatures. I’m glad we’ve moved away from snowball battles and on to his creations.

Just imagine if some stranger took pics of Calvin’s snow sculptures and posted them on Facebook!! Think Children’s Services might be notified?

Delinquent da Vinci.

H.P. Lovecraft lives!

Yes, if only snowmen WERE the assignment! Calvin would have his PhD already!

No different than making sand sculptures at the beach.

Yes! Calvin’s snow goons are back! Love them!

Focus more on the good here. In order to obtain the amount of show to make this scene of genocide is giving you a perfectly dry area to walk on to get to work.

It’s the dream that Watterson wanted to build but was never able to produce in real life.

Even if Calvin was assigned more homework, he’d get Hobbes to do it while he was outdoors.

If Calvin did this all in one afternoon, then dad is almost certainly correct.

The logistics of building sculptures of this size always baffles me.

The Snow Goons are Back! Woo hoo!! The Count ❤️s Snow Goons!!

Today…Calvin’s snow creations would be all over social media!

They do. Calvin just refuse to do them!

That’s not the problem—it is that Calvin doesn’t do the homework—he thinks he is smart enough without it and that his abilities are best used in other for worthwhile pursuits ! ! ! !

I think this proves Watterson did the concept sketches for Jabba the Hutt.

I think they assign more homework but Calvin doesn’t do it. His mind is somewhere else.

The engineering and structural skills are remarkable.

At least Calvin’s out of doors, getting some fresh air and exercise rather than attached to the life support system of a video game.

or they give him too much and this is his way of releasing stress from it. :J

Where does he get all of those carrots? ;-)

I don’t think the heavens assign enough snow to your yard to make this work.

Dad, you should be selling tickets to this.

An homage to our Dark Lord, Cthulhu.

They assign plenty. Calvin just goes beyond it.

I’ll be honest I have done something similar to that

Lol!

Oh, they assign it, all right… Calvin likes this instead.

Snowranisaurus Wrecks!

Boy, that is really artistic. Dad has no clue about his son’s ability.

On the plus side. It might get you on the front page of the newspaper.

If only. My grandson doesn’t get any homework assigned. The woke position is that Homework takes away from “family time”. Just another angle from the Teachers’ Union" to give teachers less work to do in the 1/2 year that they work now.

I think Mom and Dad better get Calvin’s “artistic expression” analyzed.

Great cartoon art…

Amazing how that thin tentacle holds up that whole heavy snowman.

Homework? What’s homework? That’s something losers do, per Calvin.

Frosty better not come near this place, if he knows what’s good for him

HERE WE GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

good grief that would be a LOT of work

I know the subject matter could be considered in poor taste, but the fact is, both the creativity and the hard work needed to sculpt something like this are awe-inspiring. I’m tired of Calvin not getting credit for those traits.

Fortunately, a child would never have enough snow to build that monster sculpture. Once you roll a snow ball in one area, the snow is gone and you have to move farther away and transport heavy snow to your location. Moving a large snow ball is very difficult.

That’s a lot of work, especially for a six year old.

Such beautiful artwork from Calvin AND Bill Watterson. The snowmen look so alive!

Think what Calvin could do with ten-foot globes of modeling clay!

People just don’t know when to appreciate talent.

If Calvin put as much effort into doing his assignments as he does to things like this, he’d be the star pupil of the school. It takes some serious ingenuity and talent to create such snow sculptures without them falling apart. Just look at the monster’s tentacle holding up the snowman. How does he manage that?

You gotta admit, what he does with snow is awesome!

Instead of thinking, my kid is a genius. Call Ripley’s Believe it or Not.

I have wondered as to where Calvin is able to get all of the snow for his projects

Oh like Calvin does homework…

I grew up in upstate NY in the 70s and I refer to it as my “Calvin and Hobbes” childhood. Sledding in winter, running through the woods in the spring, out all day and evening in the summer, and making leaf piles in the fall. It was perfect. And there was almost enough snow to do Calvin-like sculptures. But who had time with all the adventuring? :-)

Perhaps the best “snow art” ever!

More homework to ignore…

Calvin’s homage to It Came From Beneath the Sae?

LOLOL

How much snow do they get there!?

I want two straight weeks of snow goons!

Calvin’s art is clearly wasted on his dad. Plus even if Calvin had homework the snowman project is more important. His dad should be taking photos of the art with Calvin and Hobbes standing next to it. Calvin might get full credits at school, at least in arts.

Or just Calvin needs more homework.

You have a 7-year-old who can sculpt at that scale? And you’re worried about his school not giving him enough arithmetic worksheets?

One of the best snow scenes in C&A.

A creature more vicious than the snow goons? Uh-oh!

Awesome visuals here. Made me laugh.

That should cover his art, design, engineering projects just fine.

Dad looking like he stepped out of the 1940s….

Yeah, but you gotta admire the kid’s art.