Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 12, 2009

Hey, Mom, how else can he inject plague?

If you only knew what was going on in that little mind of his, Mom!!!

Good Sunday morning to everyone!

Calvin the Bug??? Dad’s probably thinking…Calvin the pest.

AAAAArrrrggggghhhh!!!!! get off me you filthy bug. Be gone before I swat you with my fly swatter.

Of course he is, he is sucking your blood.

Mom’s going to grab the bug spray if Calvin transforms.

Buzz off, Mom.

Truly, Calvin is what he thinks.

I love it when they go from inside Calvin’s imagination to the real world!

Muchos garcias Calvin

Table manners, what is that. Dad’s comment coming.

Love the look on Calvin’s face in the last pannel. He must be a real joy in a restaurant. Plenty of people to make sick there, but do the parents even risk it?

Fabulous art work. I love how knowledgeable Calvin is, and how large his vocabulary; yet he does so poorly in school. The young Stephen Hawking. Or maybe the young B.O. Plenty. Guess we will never know. Curse you, Bill Watterson!! (Just kidding.)

He ought to draw this scene on paper and give it to Mom. Would she ever be surprised?

Hey Dad, Calvin the pest? I would think Calvin at his best. I love it.

Parents don’t understand what is in the imagination of a child!

Oh, but Mom…..If you only knew what the boy was thinking, you might really have something to get sick over.

To BC13, I think his parents just leave an unbelieveably humongous tip, and pay for damages on the way out.

BC13, already been documented, Calvin turned into a T-Rex in a fancy restaurant.

Ray C, obviously Calvin is underchallenged in the conventional school system. He needs to be put into a program for the gifted.

Ewww! I didn’t imagine anything gross like that when I was his age!

The joy of getting the last drops with the straw AND it makes a NOISE that annoys adults!

johnnyd - So…what about now?

a lot of the descriptions given here , calvin would make a perfect IRS agent

kinda disgusting! yea, no wonder moms sick!

My lord! Ray C if you remember B.O. Plenty you must almost be as old as I.

Hello everyone done with church ours is early. I notice a lot like C&H. Our local paper here has a comic strip based on a teenager called Zitts. I wish gocomics would add this I believe parents could relate. I’m from Wichita, KS and I won’t say the city and st too much.

How to bug your parents to death without saying a word.

It took all of my will power NOT to jump to the last frame…glad I didn’t…got a good chuckle…heh heh heh.

I love Waterson’s artwork AND he’s funny.

Why does, “… and there’s Family Circle waiting to suck,” come to mind?

I hope Calvin never grows up

Calvin certainly will never grow up!

@kab2rb;

to see Zits, go to:

http://www.comicstriparchive.com/Zits/

Brilliant colors, wonderful art work. Strips like this show how evocative and versatile comic art can be. There’s nothing like this anymore at all; I sure miss Watterson! We can all be grateful they are republished daily here, at least … .

@kab2rb

I read Zits daily myself. You can also go to:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/zits.asp ———– Mel(ody)

If I were Calvin’s parents, I would get Calvin a babysitter (it’s been done before) if they want to eat out. I think it would be cheaper that way. ———— JonD17

I vaguely remember that storyline. The last time I read it was probably when it was initially published in the ‘80’s

I enjoy Zits also-about a 15 year old. Another strip that I miss is “Rose is Rose”, which did the transforming based on internal imagination and feelings.

bigg: I think PeTA works on the philosophy that ANY publicity is good publicity.

marvee: Zits and Rose is Rose are over on kingfeatures the site is called dailyink

Marvee: RoseisRose is on http://comics.com/rose_is_rose/ A great family comic.

One of my favorite family comics is Jump Start: http://comics.denverpost.com/affiliate/denver/?ComicID=45

Zits is also good family fun…a little edgier than those two.

For great comic art, Prince Valiant seems to stand out, at least to this amateur comics fan. He’s at http://www.newsok.com/entertainment/comics

Hey all I am a mom I am glad I brought up about Zits. This would be wild how about Zits baby sitting Calvin. All types of trouble. If Zitts could keep up with Calvin. Ha I have two 26 yr old son and 23 yr old daughter. For Zitts I have been trying to find a web page for this comic strip in case we quite our local newspaper. So thanks. By the way How do I change my icon to something funny? Download off webpage somewhere? Sorry I am not trying to scream.

Or yet for Calvins baby sister from Stone Soup the teenage boy who lives with the family more active. Might be good for Calvin. I agree Jump Start would be good to for go comics.

Time to declare open warfare on them pesky critters .Preparing to fire some insecticides. For more insect fun PreTeena has been having trouble with blackflies check it out if you haven’t.

kab2rb: Go to your home page and click on ‘profile’, then click on ‘update profile’. Under ‘update my avatar, click on ‘browse’.

If you type “comics” into the search engine the resulting list should include The Washington Post & The Houston Chronicle. Both of these fill out what isn’t on this site or Comics.com. Baby Blues, Sally Forth, Mutts, Bizarro, etc. No comments page, though.

New meaning to the straw - I will laugh at this one all day.

Next, he’ll probably contaminate the house

Maybe Calvin is just getting a buzzzzzz from the sugary soft drink.