Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 03, 1990
Transcript:
Calvin: Today I drew another picture in my "dinosaurs in rocket ships" series, and Miss Wormwood threatened to give me a bad mark in her grade book if I didn't stop! The arts are under attack! Freedom of expression is being squelched! The authorities are trying to silence any view contrary to their own! Hobbes: What does your teacher object to about dinosaurs? Calvin: Mostly my drawing them during math.
kpreethy about 14 years ago
does he is reallly 6 years old??
Summersnow almost 14 years ago
@krishna preethy
There wasn’t one word in there that wasn’t out of place in any context what so ever…
Or in laymans terms “What hell was trying you say??”
Yeah I’m a jerk, sorry
Xalder about 10 years ago
Some don’t know speaking good like you and I, so their linguistics is limited to “I” and “am” and “Groot” and exclusively in that order.
yow4zip Premium Member about 9 years ago
There’s a time and place for everything.
bmonk about 9 years ago
He objects to the censorship—not to the appropriateness of the teacher’s complaint.
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What she does not accept is that he is using his art to protest his disbelief in the religion of numbers and mathematics.
alexzinuro almost 2 years ago
Me: Calvin, here’s a dinosaur-related math problem. Barosaurus, a sauropod of late Jurassic western North America, weighed about 16 tons. It had a 2-foot-long head, a 32-foot-long neck, a 12½-foot-long body, and a 43½-foot-long tail.* How long was Barosaurus altogether?
Calvin: Let’s see…90 feet, I believe.
Me: Correct.
*Based on an illustration of Barosaurus’s skeleton by Gregory S. Paul, from “The Complete Dinosaur” (©1997) by James O. Farlow and M. K. Brett-Surman (editors).
glowing-steak32 over 1 year ago
I had the same issue, I loved doodling as a kid, drawing little critters just running around getting into mischief. Unfortunately I preferred to do it during school, and when I tried getting back into doodling in high school art, I was scolded because it wasn’t “real art”. Bleh, took me 20 years to get back into drawing my comfortable way (which is getting better) and thankfully the compliment-to-harsh criticism online is roughly 5 to 1 nowadays, thus proving that adults don’t need to feel pressured to draw like they’re one of the character designers for “Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure” to feel like an artist.