Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 11, 2024

Hey! It was also warm yesterday. Calvin really is a dope!

Yeah, a genius has to die before getting recognized…..

It’s snow good.

However, stupidity is often understood immediately.

But you can still make a good snowball to throw..

I wonder if that was Moe, offscreen. Naw—he wouldn’t speak; he’d just come over there and knock the snowman to flakes! And then, he’d beat up Calvin!

3rd panel reminded me of the rock group Evanescence song, Bring Me to Life.

Compare it to Hans Christian Andersen’s story “The Snowman”…

Ah the world is full of uncouth imbecile philistines.

Mr. Snowman will be donating body parts to make the required retribution snowballs.

Philistines get a bad rap.

Orderly misconduct happens.

Our mortality is not a horror if we love God. Specifically, Jesus.

Obviously it is not too warm to build a snowman, since he just built one.

Who’s calling Calvin a dope, out of view in Panel #4? Susie Derkins? Miss Wormwood? Mom? The uncertainty has me on pins and needles.

Watterson is the only one who will ever understand you.

“Go forth and kill the Philistines. Kill the men, the women and the children. Kill their flocks, herds and fowl. Kill everything that breaths. Burn their cities to the ground, and then re-build upon the land.” Too dark, for a Wednesday??

Too warm for Snow Goons. Too bad.

If it’s cold enough for snow, it’s cold enough for a snowman!

It looks like he built a pretty good snowman to me.

Calvin should be a lecturer somewhere. He’s good.

Don’t let that negativity impact your creative genius, Calvin!

Quite a vocabulary for a kid who can’t add 4 and 7.

…………it is the beauty of creativity!!!!

Calvin must study the dictionary…

I wonder if Calvin understands all the words he and the concept he learned from the Encyclopedia?

And, since the whole point of this piece is that it won’t be around for long, it won’t be appreciated in later times, either.

Maybe show the philistine that the temperature is just perfect for a slush ball…

“Evanescence.” Six year olds use that word all the time, don’t they?

Reminds me of sculptor Claes Oldenberg who would use materials like plaster of Paris or vinyl for the impermanence of the materials. As the materials deteriorated they added to the life of the sculpture in ways he could not have planned for. He sculpted a plaster hamburger with blow up vinyl French fries, and as the plaster crumbled or the fries deflated it changed the sculpture.

Another reason I don’t like ‘post modern’ art.

It’s warm enough for a nice ice-ball, though.

Or do you just throw those at little girls, boyo!

For big bucks, you have to duct tape it to a wall. :)

xref $6.4 million banana

Golly, and all this time I thought Evanescence was a band ! ;-)

At least this snow man has a better fate than most of Calvin’s snowmen.

Will Calvin ever be understood?

Did Calvin change his name to Banksy in later years?

But in the end its still a lump of snow.

When I was a kid, I lived for a time in Oklahoma. We didn’t usually get much snow, a few inches most of the time. So when you tried to roll up a ball for a snowman, it would bring a bunch of dead grass and leaves. Sad-looking snowmen.

I bet that loudmouth would understand a snowball to the head!

I’m surprised that the last panel didn’t show Calvin scooping up a snowball while making his comment.