Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 30, 2024

If it was your birthday, you could go out in your birthday suit…..

He could have kept the pajamas on. Assuming he doesn’t wear them outside regularly

Well, he was up at the crack of dawn

I just hope he went to the bathroom BEFORE he left the house!

When you are elderly, getting dressed is hard work.

The K-12 public school in my neighborhood has Pajama Day every year.

Back in the late 1970s I had a friend who lived in an isolated, hand-built cabin in the coastal mountains of Oregon near Corvallis where we both worked. He usually spent the weekends sans clothing. One Saturday, while strolling, au naturel as usual, along a jeep trail he encountered a car driven by an older couple lost in the labyrinth of logging trails of the area. He graciously directed them out of the maze and back to the highway and resumed his stroll. I often wonder what their reaction to this very suntanned gentleman was.

Not a sight I want to see……….

sorry, Calvin – but so long as you live amongst these odd creatures, you must abide by their strange customs

No one really loves a free spirit.

“But not today.” Calvin should have said, “Butt not today” as it is one of the few occasions where we see his bare butt. We usually only see this when he is taking a bath. Hobbes, of course, is one of those cartoon animals who usually go around naked but sometimes wear bathing trunks.

haha one of the classics.

Too late. He’s felt the breeze of freedom. I predict he’s addicted.

“A day may come when the courage of Men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day.” With apologies to Aragorn at the Black Gate.

I’m just betting Calvin has never been burdened with “walking around in public naked” dreams.

Really, Calvin? Your family already have a bad reputation all because of you. Please don’t make things worse for them!

SSDD, same stuff, different day

Can’t count how many times he’s done that. Anyone remember that particular snowman?

Americans have the right to be free!!!

Cal as a youngster suddenly reminds me of someone he might have become in his 70’s.

It was recently by birthday…………….but I wouldn’t have even (in a passing thought) gone out in my birthday suit—would have blinded anybody I had met ! ! ! !

You wind up sunburning your tender bits Calvin, you’ll learn.

Here he comes, there he goes,

and he ain’t wearing no clothes!

I wonder what would happen if I walked the dog naked.

Humans are the only species to cover themselves which destroys the planet. Without clothes there would be a lot of areas of the planet that we would never have ventured to which would also have slowed down the population. Clothing was against Gods thought of paradise and that was on page 1…

He wants to be a nudist. No harm there.

Can’t blame Calvin for trying.

I used to have that nightmare a lot as a kid.

One year at work, I told them I was going to come in wearing my birthday suit. And I did just that. I wore a new suit I had gotten for my birthday.

I’m heading out for a round of golf today. It is going to be hot and humid. naked in a golf cart going as fast as I can to my next shot to get that wonderful flow of air! what could go wrong?

My wife won’t let me run around the yard naked either. What a kill buzz

Hmmm.. Calvin has Exhibitionist tendencies…. LOL

You have to defer to societal prejudices, Calvin, but I don’t know why.

I’m with Calvin on this, but I don’t want to horrify people.

All kids are natural born nudist.

The habit of wearing clothes has to be beaten into them – metaphorically if not literally.

All these recent strips just make me feel sorry for Calvins parents, but that’s part of the point and beauty of it, isn’t it! ;-)

But acting normal would not be the same old thing for Calvin.

I remember when my son was three years old, he had a friend same age, got a brainy idea of pants zipped down and pulled down, I was in the kitchen and shocked, I saw another woman driving same way, I started to laugh, yet went to the door and ordered both boys pull their pants back up and zip it, both scrambled to do that. They thought they was being funny. That was 35 years ago.

Have patience, Calvin. All you have to do is grow up and get a place of your own, at least a couple of miles from the nearest neighbor.

He’s tried this before.

From Calvin the lightning bolt to Calvin the nudist.

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full moon tonight

There’s no reason at all for a child to not walk out of the house nude, unless you have phobias about laughing and pointing. :)

Even though it’s summer, morning are always the same.