Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 28, 2025

Warning: May cause failed book reports!

I love Hobbes’ reaction in the 2nd panel

Love Hobbes’ expression in the second panel! He must be thinking that Calvin is a real "block"head, LOL.

Watterson wins the award for best way to overcome writer’s block.

Adam@Home could have used one of those.

Hobbes is thinking,“What a block head”.

this is very good.

Yup!

There would be a story arc in Phoebe and her Unicorn that was also a play on “writer’s block”. Phoebe and Marigold Heavenly Nostrils were trying to write something – either a song or a story – but they couldn’t think of anything. Phoebe said that they had writer’s block. Marigold disagreed as usual. She said, “If we had the writer’s block, we would not have this problem.” Phoebe asked, “Are we talking at cross purposes again?”

It turned out that unicorn’s know about an actual writer’s block which helps to inspire writing so Phoebe and Marigold went searching for it.

You needs to inventing sometheeng that builds character see.

This is funny, but…so am I supposed to respond to writer’s block by…not writing? No, thank you. That’;s the opposite of what I should do.

OK, so Cal is superman. Even I would have trouble pushing a block THAT big.

Writer’s Block could also be one huge lineman!

Writer’s block for Blockheads.

What a blockhead.

A chastity belt is sometimes called a… never mind.

Looks big enough to be used as a desk.

Calvin, while sitting on the block pose as ‘The Thinker’. Contemplate about building character or why many consider you ‘The Stinker’.

Brilliant!!

Well, if you put that block on your laptop, it just might work!

I write banned books

Didn’t Lucy used to call Charlie Brown a block head?

The “more” must be interesting.

That’s not what is meant by writer’s block, Calvin!

Artists and Geniuses. Never recognized in their time.

How did Calvin fashion that block? Could just be a box, I suppose, with stuff in it to make it as heavy as it seems to be in the first panel.

I actually recall reading years ago about someone who had the idea of marketing a novelty joke item called a “mental block”, a small wooden block that you could put on your desk. The article was not so much about the item itself as it was how you go about selling things like that.

As a cartoonist/writer, l find the best way to overcome writer’s block is music.

Alcohol also helps.

Love the reaction on Hobbes’ face!

LOL… Too funny.

I have one of those. I call mine Ian Dury

Reminds me of the box we were all supposed to think outside.