Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 26, 2024

Dad wants Calvin to build character but instead, Calvin draws the character.

Still not as bad as the headline Mom got.

There are already too many “dopey dad” comics out there, Calvin: “Adam@Home”, “Dustin”, etc.

Bart Simpson once created a strip called ‘Angry Dad’.

That’s not the kind of character Dad was hoping for.

In old Ireland songwriters would shake down the rich by threatening to write songs about them!

Fame awaits, fortune..   reports are still coming in

The last panel is drawn brilliantly with the flashlight illuminating them in the dark. And of course Hobbes’ fiendish glee!

hee hee

3rd panel=Man spreading.

Yesterday, I suggested that we may get our Christmas Day strip on Monday as this week’s reprints are from a week of strips before Christmas in Scientific Progress Goes Boink. The Christmas Eve large panel cartoon with a poem by Calvin appeared on Sunday which was Christmas Eve and the Christmas Day strip appeared on Monday. It may continue that way this year.

On the other hand, it is possible that this Sunday’s strip will be a reprint of the Christmas Day Sunday strip which appeared the year before. This seems likely as these are reprints which appeared during Watterson’s second sabbatical in 1994-5. Watterson would draw many new strips for 1995 including a Sunday strip for Christmas Eve – which shows that even Santa Claus and his elves are unsure of Calvin’s guilt or innocence regarding the Noodle Incident – and the Sunday strip for New Year’s Eve which was the last original Calvin and Hobbes strip by Watterson and a delightful end to a wonderful comic strip.

One of the Christmas presents which I opened after Christmas lunch with some of my family yesterday was a Calvin and Hobbes blanket from my younger nephew who will be forty-four in February. My older nephew was born in 1979 so he was a six-year-old like Calvin when the strip started in 1985 and my younger nephew was a six-year-old like Calvin when I discovered this excellent comic strip and began reading it in 1987.

My new Calvin and Hobbes blanket shows the book covers from several Calvin and Hobbes book collections including some which I still own.

Cal getting even for Christmas?

For sure, Watterson knows how expensive it is to produce a cartoon.

Dopey Dad? More like Miserly Dad!

SCREAMING FUNNY ! :-D

….. and deeper ……

I thought his next try would be to sell an ad for $20.

Calvin needs better taste in literature.

Dopey Dad’s face in the third panel is priceless! I can also picture this classic cartoon sound effect accompanying it:

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Fifteen bucks? Dad would’ve gotten off easy.

….did not do as good as mom!!!!

I would totally read the Dopey Dad comic, as well as the adventures of Spaceman Spiff and the case files of Tracer Bullet.

Hey dad, you should explain the concepts of coercion and extortion to Cal….and what a prison “sweetie “ is.

Or your dad could just cut off your supply chain of paper, pencils, ink, etc.

Doesn’t sound dopey at all.

Not even Susie is going to read his comic

Now that was funny. Extortion aside.