Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 25, 2024

Stop the presses! Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! Sad there’s no holiday cartoon .

Here is last year’s Christmas strip

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Merry Christmas, Everyone!

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As the rabbit said, while stirring the sauce: Hoppy Hollandaise! Peace to each and every of you. Pass it along!

Mom has neither imagination nor sense of humor!

Bill, how about penning a one-frame special of Calvin & Hobbes wishing their readers a happy holiday?

Fortunately, she remembered to set the knife down before shooing Calvin out of the kitchen.

Does Cavins and Hobbs have a Christmas comic?

Calvin seems well educated!

Watterson demonstrating his genius, yet again…

If they’re still around it looks like Calvin might have a job at MSNBC.

Merry Christmas!

♪♪A Merry Christmas and Many Happy Returns Of The Day! ♪♪

Merry Christmas to you and yours.

Randolph Hearst would be proud.

Would you rather stuff a dead fish into your mouth or devour a ground up piece of a dead cow?

I would be surprised that Calvin knows the word “ichthyoid,” except that every time he has his mom’s fish he says “Ick!”

The last part of the headline seems ambitious considering not everyone in the family will be devouring the fish.

Just imagines if there be youtube back then…

I would be proud as a peacock if my son was able to come up with a headline like that at his age!

It’s all true.

Click bait.

Sigh… Why does it feel like that more and more media press are altering the facts these days?

That pretty much describes the ‘red top’ newspapers in the UK, along with others like the Daily Mail.

…. and deeper ….

Well when you put it like that.

~A Merry and Blessed Christmas to all!~

“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among men with whom he is pleased”

(Luke 2:14).

Sadly, the Calvin Courier (or whatever you want to call it) will likely not last past its first edition.

Headline writers, rejoice.

That’s too long of a headline for bold size 200 font, gotta cut it down

“Film at 11.”

Calvin will be a great ‘click bait’ journalist…

Have to entice readers somehow.

Went from sure……..to out……quickly!!!!!

Calvin understands the ‘news’ business. Fake news is not a recent development.

I did this once as a kid. I reported on our getting a hamster.

How does a 6 yo know what an ichtyoid is? How does even Waterson know what an ichtyoid is? For that matter, what is an ichtyoid?

He has absolutely captured the essence of today’s so-called “journalism”. If he keeps it up at this rate, the Murdochs will bow at his feet.

Fish? for Christmas dinner? yuk

Here’s a lead story:

“Bullets sailed over a hunting lodge window ledge painted in the 1930’s; scene was drawn out with a #2 pencil.”

Merry Christmas!

You have a brilliant future with the tabloids, Calvin…

Calvin! Fux Noose is calling you…!

Tabloid hooey?

Calvin understands modern journalism.

If it bleeds it leads ! ;-)

I was anticipating the Christmas issue!!

Calvin has a bright future with Fox or OAN.

Calvin’s “genius” must be verbal, most six year olds have never even heard the word “ichthyose”

Someone dropped the ball. I was hoping to see a Christmas strip from this stage of the strip. Merry Christmas nonetheless.

Merry Christmas!

Just about what the real Media does to a non news story.

Calvin would have been perfect as a staffer on that old supermarket tabloid Weekly World News.

Which is probably where Bill Watterson got his inspiration for this strip.

He is So darn funny! What a rascal Calvin is.

Calvin has been watching a Soundgarden music video.

With a vocabulary like that he could be a genius!

Calvin already possessing the sensationalism to be a part of the modern mainstream media.

Why is the ichthyoid community such a target for violence?