Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 24, 2024

A star is born…..

How long before Calvin breaks down on TV?

He figured out the influencer concept many years in advance.

Calvin is decades ahead of his time.

Everybody already knows you, Calvin. But not in a famous way.

Calvin will be a natural on the Internet.

Do you REALLY want that, Calvin? Most “stars” bemoan their lack of privacy, with the media on their tails every moment. And then, when their “celebrity” tanks, they turn to booze and drugs and end up in the gutter or with a police record.

To be fair, Calvin DOES have an overactive imagination.

It worked for Kim K.!

Prophetic stuff, this.

Calvin’s ‘Brightness’ needs adjusting.

Horizontal stabilizer is out of wack, jack.

Oh my dog. If only we had known that 30 years later, real people in real life with this very attitude and almost these very words would be tearing apart the fabric of society…

YouTubers these days…

I think the Horizontal Output tube needs to be replaced. Either that, or the set is suffering from silver-mica disease.

(If you go on YouTube, look up the channel “shango066”. He’s out of Los Angeles and finds these old tube radios and TVs to resurrect. Not a full restore, but just to get them working, so someone else can do the full restore. Mind you, he can be hilarious, but also has opinions on certain social/political topics that don’t jibe with some people. So if your tolerance is pretty high, you’ll be fine.)

His "15 minutes of fame " – [mis]attributed to Andy Warhol.

That cultural icon and prestige statement Calvin mentions is a real thing. I knew a weather forecaster from one of the local stations. He was a bit into himself. When I walked up to his front door in a prestigious neighborhood for the first time he literally had a brass plate on the door that said “Guess who lives here?”

Check out Brad Paisley’s music video “Celebrity” on YouTube

You know, he’s right. Why do we care so much what someone on the other side of a camera says/thinks/does? What makes them smarter, more prescient than we are? Why are their opinions better than ours? Lately I’ve been noticing that the newer crop of news casters locally are endlessly looking at their phones and tablets, while reporting live. They can’t seem to remember a few seconds of text without a screen to look at. Then there’s the scrolling banners at the bottom of the screen that are mis-spelled and grammatically awful. But, I digress…

“I’ll call myself an ‘Influencer’! Yea, that’s a great term!”

More than his antenna needs adjusting.

and thus, Calvin invents several social media, youtube only wishes it had Cal.

I think more than his antenna requires adjusting.

Practicing for “Show and Tell” at school!!!

The perfect spokesperson for Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs!! Rush out right now and buy some today!

I’m guessing that Hobbes’ conclusion is too subtle for bubbly Cal.

He’ll do advertisements for “Chocolate Sugar Bombs”!

Yes he will and the first commercial will be birth control and the 2nd commercial will be to adopt a puppy. That will really hold dads attention.

Ah, the precursor to the Paris Hilton phenomenon.

The hilarious, if obnoxious, TV arc.

All strips about TV are an excellent example of how Watterson had all the subtlety of a sledgehammer. It’s just that for specifically Calvin, that’s fine, because since when are six-year-old boys subtle.

Better hold off “adjusting his antenna”. You might get paws for concern, especially in case of this “wiz” kid.

When did C & H become a documentary?

Calvin just invented youtube.

Lots of people need their antennas adjusted.

I hope he doesn’t endorse any Ronco products, I have enough of those

With the internet, everybody can be a TV star.

An so started the influencer

Oooooo! Do Bitcoin! Su…people love that!

The irony is that Calvin has become a cultural icon!

Voila! An Influencer is born.

“I think your antenna needs adjusting” hahahaha

Gee, I wonder why no Celebrities have endorsed “Blue Chew”…

( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡° )

Thus Trump.

Since when do TV personalities take answers from the home audience? And I don’t mean call-ins or write-ins.

ah… a budding influencer (I usually do the opposite)

Now that you are on TV and famous, you can move in and smooch them, you don’t even have to wait. You can grab them by the TIGER and they can’t even resist.

Boy, 30 years later and not much has changed, has it ??? ;-) Well, maybe the size of the screen! ;-0

Remind you of someone? Now he’s selling silver coins, $2 dollar bills with his mug photo, Trumpy Bears with optional ties, and Trading cards with fake images of himself. What else do you need to know. before you vote?

If anything he hawks ends with the phrase “talk to your doctor” I would lose it . . .

How do I change this channel?

Calvin is so narcissistic and deranged he might as well run for POTUS.

Do adjust your set, Calvin.

I guess this is Calvin’s “15 minutes of fame”…. LOL