Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 13, 2009

Hobbes, you devil you!

Ha ha! I remember this one.

Ooo, that’s mean!

Ooo, that’s mean!

Hmm, bees generally target furry objects which they see as a threat. Wonder why it didn’t land on Hobbes?

How could you, Hobbes??? But, hmmm, enjoy reading!

Calvin’s shirt is red and black like a bulls-eye Jor-El maybe that is the answer or maybe Hobbes is playing a prank on Calvin.

Looks like Calvin is trying to “bust a move.”

How can someone with the steel nerves of spaceman spiff be afraid of a bee?

Naughty Hobbes again!!!

Oldest trick in the book.

Agreed. “A bee or not a bee—that is the question.”

Hobbes, your words stings just as much as the bee….

Happy birthday Doctortoon from the wolf family.

Hobbes takes advantage of the situation.

What’s Hobbes worried about? For that matter, what’s Pooh worried about? They’re both stuffed with fluff; bee stings can’t affect them.

Is there a bee there?

Run, Calvin,Run!

Reminds me of an Old Joke I used to play - works especially well at outdoor ball games. Start out by having someone guess the letter bee-ing drawn on their back with a finger. Doesn’t matter which letter - draw several of them. Then when U draw out the letter “B” & they guess correctly,.. give them a friendly Slap on the Back - Yelling BEE!

U’d think I did this as a kid - did it as an adult to kids. Doesn’t work so well on adults - they probably did it as kids themselves.

Enjoy Life! - Play Ball If U Can = instead of Sitting In The Bleachers

Quiet! Go for a little sleep, Hobbes!

The Spanish version was good, also.

The party never ends.

ladywolf17 said, about 6 hours ago Ha ha! I remember this one…… Hmmm interesting, since this goes back probably some 25 yrs. at least. Guess I misunderestimated your age dear ladywolf17

That’s one way to get Calvin to move. Reverse psychology.

No wonder he’s got a bee on his back - Friday the 13th falls on a Monday this month!

Hey Hobbes was there even a bee or did you make the whole thing up to read Calvin’s comics?

hobbes left a real “sting” on calvin’s day

@JonD17…Thank you for writing what I was thinking…

Anyway…on to today’s C&H: Tigers, ‘specially the stuffed kind, are quite literary dontcha’ know…

Hey Calvin, it’s Hobbes’s room too.

hey calvin thts a nice pose ;)

Macushlalondra-You’ll see in about a week.

or maybe she read it in a book? this isn’t the only place C&H has ever been. why do some people persist in being suspicious of the “wolf family” anyway? i prefer to accept all comments at face value and ignore the ones i don’t feel like reading, and i don’t understand why that is so hard for some others to do.

yyyguy - I was also thinking she might have read it in a book. There are several C & H books still in print.

yyyguy and rmom i read it in a book and im 19. i was in the book store and picked up a comic book turned out to be Calvin and Hobbes. i got a good laugh and i saw this one.

Can’t help wondering: Reading a comic book doesn’t damage it in any way; in fact, coming along later you couldn’t even tell someone else had been reading the comic book earlier. So why does Calvin fret?

Calvin frets because he can’t be there to keep an eye on Hobbes and make sure he takes good care of his comics… you know because of the apparent bee on his back. Either that or he’s just stingy.

All I know for sure is that Hobbes is a riot lol

Hobbes gives Calvin another terrible trick! Hobbes can read Calvin’s comic again! LOLs!

I’m kind of stupid with bees. I try to smack them and irritate them. Then again, Ive never been stung. Maybe my method works

Oh, Calvin, BEE quiet - you BEE messin’ wit my concentration, cain’t you BEE seein’ dat??? BEE-brain!

Silly JonD17 my dad has a few Calvin and Hobbes books. I used to read them when ever I could that is why I remember this one.

Hm, this reminds me of the strip where calvin and hobbes were playing hide and seek and hobbes ditched calvin to read his comic books.Classic.

This is one of my favorites of the calvin and hobbes collection.

Who cares about your avatar EMET I don’t even have a freakin avatar

I agree with Spcemanspiff

yo joe allen doty its just a comic strip man what are some sort of wu shu technical comic physics observer?????????

I mean seriously who’s with me on this?

dudeabideshou – except that Hobbes has a history of drawing mustaches on the characters in Calvin’s comic books!

Calvin also said Hobbes bends back the spine.

Has anyone ever seen calvin READ comic books before?

JonD17, I was thinking the same thing.

Actually, I think that Ladywolf17 is at least of college age.

yyyguy, I think that some of us are just more cynical than others.

I remember this one as well. But I did not read this in the dailies. I only read the Sunday comics back then. But now with the internet…

I own the “Authoritative Calvin & Hobbes” book, printed in 1990. If I remember any of these strips, it’ll be because it was in this book, though there were a number of other C&H books in print at the time, including 3 treasure collections.

Some people are just way too cynical. And maybe they should think, before they start making accusations.

BC13, You know what your talking about for sure, I myself have all the great books of Calvin. A Very Great Treasure. Thanks for your comment.

I have a cat named Tigger and I can say you never trust a Hobbes or a Tigger

Well it’s funny but I’m only giving it a ‘B’.

it looks more like calvin is about to bust a nut

i know that trick. but nobody falls for it any more. :(