Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 03, 2010

Today, He’d probably get arrested for the drawing….

Good thing Hobbes can draw.

Or is it?

Too funny. Sorry Calvin, but you get all the credit. Stuffed tigers can’t draw. I don’t think live ones can either.

What do pencils taste like?

Real tigers draw blood…

I am astonished about Hobbses art! A wonderful picture!

Calvin, have you considered the possibility that crayons are not made to eat? Do you expect them to taste like maggots?

Calvin was so ‘ripping mad’ he could hardly even ‘draw a breath’.

When you draw a picture like that one, ‘heads will roll’. It’s the ‘principal of the thing’.

I remember that someone made scented crayons, but I don’t remember eatable crayons. Maybe they were the ones that had non-toxic written on the box.

Evidently, in our pathetically PC world, tigers are not allowed to kill and eat prey. But since people have killed tigers to the point of extinction I guess we don’t have to worry about that.

I’ve heard the excuse “My dog ate my homework” But never heard befroe,”My tiger drew my homework”!!

You know what? I’ve seen pictures like that, and I’ve never seen a kid sent to the principal or the psychiatrist for it. In fact, I’ve seen teachers start exciting conversations from the pictures, and it turns out the kids quite often have great imaginations. Usually it’s just lawyers or busybodies who want to pretend something like this would cause trouble.

Why didn’t Calvin just take credit for it instead of telling everyone his stuffed animal drew it?

Children express their fears and normal aggression through drawing. It’s normal (and easily explained through evolution) for boys to think of hunting themes. It’s unnatural to expect boys to be girly.

jrbj: I remember the scented crayons too and they also make scented markers. I tasted both when I was in kindergarden and I think I preferred the markers but I only ate the crayons. The discriptions of the crayons especially the Crayola box made them sound like they would taste pretty good. I remember trying glue and paste too and paste was better. I think I said it before but we had a boy in kindergarden that loved paste. Our teacher had to lock it up or he’d eat jars of it. I was extremely impressed with that of course, he became my first boyfriend! Oh, our first loves!

yeah. nothing better than a crayola love note.

God wouldn’t have put erasers on the ends of pencils if He didn’t want us to eat them.

no thanks, i’ll stick with the crayon.

Calvin eats nearly everything, when it is not dinner!

This could be the insight into what caused the Calvin and Hobbes strip coming to an end… After all it wouldn’t be all that funny to read a funny about a grown boy/man who turned out to have a split personality and thereby ended up getting his picture hung in the post office?

Oh well… We’ll just have to and do enjoy the world as it was!

no, what happened was, when Calvin became an adult, he WORKED in the post office and then one day he got fired. In dispair, he went home and hobbes gave him an fully loaded ak47 with extra clips and told him to go back to the post office and………….

he probably would hav gotten away w/ it if not 4 the human heads lolz

With colours with names like apricot, orange, peach, melon, salmon, chestnut, watermelon, etc kids are expected to NOT eat their crayons?

haha i bet the whole class loved it.. too bad the adults don’t like it ;P

Kid in my class ate library paste like it was going out of style (whoa! I guess it did!).

I always thought wooden pencils were tasty. I gnawed them a lot.

Me too, artybee. Always liked breaking in a fresh new pencil

Calvin I am not surprised this Tiger thing is a hard sell But it must be fun getting a reaction from the principal

Library paste is just flour and water, I think. I used to like the taste of the paste (unintentional, I swear!!) that my mother made. I wasn’t addicted though. I mean, a cupful or two a day is not an addiction, exactly. Is it? I loved making model airplanes, too. Airplane glue smelled great. Down in that small little basement room. It stuck to your fingers and you had to chew it off. A couple of tubes a day. But I wasn’t addicted to that, either. Now, where did I put that bottle of Elmer’s?

@BC13, I don’t know if tigers can draw, but elephants can paint: http://www.elephantartgallery.com/

Stuart Gathman I’ve actually heard of painting elephants. Though I’m not a fan of abstracts, I think their works can put some human artist to shame.

Thanks for the link.

My daughter discovered Calvin and Hobbs books many years ago and introduced me to them. I just re-read then and chuckled right through! This artist is delightful in his observations of human nature, beastly little boys and figures of authority from a child’s point of view. Many men secretly live in a world of imagination until they are about 30 I think! Too cute!

Ray, I remember the model airplane glue, It always seemed that you got more on your fingers than the model you were working on.

Fine art!

cabrobst said, about 13 hours ago

“It’s unnatural to expect boys to be girly.”

It works the other way too–I read about one family that got their daughter gender-neutral trucks to play with. She did play with them. She put bows on them and tucked them into bed.

Not all gender-associated behavior is culturally conditioned or learned.

And, Hobsie, what makes you think that guys who made it to 30 without giving up the life of imagination quit at that age?

Going on 50 myself…

Beautiful… the creative process is just… beautiful. The carnage works to C’s advantage, too. Oh bleeep, principals don’t make good art critics.

that’s funny, I got bleeped on a non-bleep word, darn.

Well, you are an accessory, Calvin. Guilty as charged!

Ray C said, about 6 hours ago

Now, where did I put that bottle of Elmer’s?

You’re lucky that you stopped at the bottle of Elmer’s Glue or you might have ended like:

“There once was a couple named Kelly Who had to live belly to belly.

For in their great haste they used library paste Instead of petroleum jelly !”

Dino-1 are you kidding? I’m laughing my butt off over how a woman would “lock lips” with a boyfriend who eats paste!!

For a real-life “scary” picture story (oh how prescient Mr. Waterson was)

http://www.lonelyconservative.com/2009/12/15/incredible-second-grader-suspended-for-drawing-violent-picture-of-jesus-christ/

(that link includes picture, also see

http://www.tauntongazette.com/news/x1903566059/Taunton-second-grader-suspended-over-drawing-of-Jesus )

loveeeeeeeeeeee…

i suppose crayons have a distinct taste… but i coulldn’t really say, i haven’t tasted one :) wonder if calvin will grow up with mpd… i hope not :)

bros yous bes thes bests