Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 01, 2011

Patience, Mom, patience.

Calvin? Don’t tempt fate.

There’s no such thing as too deep! Now you can go deep sea (er, tub) diving!!

Get a little soap in his eyes.Then he’ll have something to complain about.

I love you naughty ’s Boy…..

How’s Calvin supposed to see his toy boats and rubber duck in all those bubbles?

Calvin better watch out. just look at his mom’s eyes…scary…

Calvin…your pushing it!

Makes me think of the old comic “They’ll Do It Everytime.” Would show aggravating situations where the slighted person would be fighting back the “urge to kill” or other vengeful thoughts against the perpetrator. Can see mom is fighting back that “urge to dunk,” at least. :-)

If that’s too deep, how about this:“Would the Joker be sad if Batman died?” – from Foxtrot several years ago

Bet she’s thinking “if I only filled it 5 more inches”

At first glance, today’s strip looks like Bill Watterson has taken a page right out of Charles Schulz’s book. Here is Charlie Brown, way back in 1951:PeanutsNevertheless, I don’t think Bill Watterson ever tried to plagiarize another cartoonist’s work. All cartoonists, artists, writers, composers, etc. have the work of others stored away in their memories; and all are influenced by their predecessors, sometimes consciously, but often subconsciously. Nobody lives in a vacuum. (If they did, it would be so dark and dusty inside there, that it would stifle most of their creativity anyway.)Charles Schulz drew this Peanuts strip seven years before Bill Watterson was born, but it was reprinted in Schulz’s first paperback book, which was available in stores when Bill was growing up. So it is possible that Bill had read the Peanuts strip and was remembering it subconsciously when he drew his own version.But it is also possible that Bill Watterson created his own version independently. This sort of thing happens a lot with editorial cartoons, where two cartoonists have the same idea on the same day and clearly weren’t influenced by one another. This particular strip involves a simple idea, based on something that most of us would remember from our early childhoods – struggling with adjusting the temperature of the bath water, with help from a parent. And both Charles Schulz and Bill Watterson had excellent memories of their own childhoods.Those are my original thoughts for today. At least, I think they are. Even though Bill Watterson was not a plagiarist, my personal feeling is that the problem of plagiarism has been widespread ever since at least four score and seven years ago. But don’t quote me on that.

Judging from Mom’s eyes, there might be a bug on the ceiling. Regardless, Calvin is the one really bugging her.BTW, I thought about using ‘irregardless’, but I didn’t want to be apprehended by the Grammar Police! :o)

When I was a kid I would stir the water in the tub to create a whirlpool while the hot water ran in order to evenly distribute the hot water throughout the tub.

Children! Time out and go sit in the corner! Play nice now.

…shades of Goldilocks and The Three Bears!

“Now it’s too deep” for what? Calvin can still stand on the bottom and keep his head above water.BTW, Mom could cool or heat the water more gradually, but it wouldn’t do any good with Calvin. He’d find something else about which to complain.

It’s time to pull the plug on this tomfoolery. The next comment from Calvin will be, “Now it’s too shallow!”

Gweedo – You need some help. Now-a-days, just joking like that can get you arrested.

Now it’s too wet!

Mom unplug let the water drain. Start all over Calvin will still complain.

No one thought it was funny.

Mom, dermatologists say that 3 minutes underwater will not wrinkle your hands.

Princess Calvin…

If Calvin can’t find happiness IN the tub, then Mom should scrub him down (being careful not to hold him under water too long during rinsing) and get him OUT of the tub.

Oh no mom! The water is aging me. Look my fingers are all wrinkled!

Just pretend he is an Oreo & dunk him in the ‘milk’ til he is all clean. He is just fighting over not wanting to take the bath.

When i was 4-5, i used to swim underwater from one end to the other of the 6ft. clawfoot tub that was made in 1900, when he complained about the water’s depth, that memory popped up..

Or push under three times and bring up twice (Apologies to Homer and Jethro)

Realize, these are NOT suggestions – Sometimes we get more out out of the comments than the strip!

Fuss Fuss Fuss!

LOL xxx

“Now it’s too …. blub, blub…gasp…blub, blub, blub…gasp!”

Typical American child. Spoiled and ungrateful that he even has clean running water at his fingertips. I think all Americans, children and adults alike, should have to spend at least a month in India, where the luxuries Americans have at their disposal are far and few between. Better yet, send them to Iraq, and let them experience the destruction Americans have left there along with no clean water, no electricity and then maybe, just maybe Americans would start to wake up.

Cartoons alike: Sometimes it is intentional – particularly right after the cartoonists’ convention. Not as often as the April 1 in which most did a send-up of someone else’s strip and no one got more than one. Obviously planned ahead of time as to who would do whose.

With the exception of Calvin’s boogers freezing, this is the best one EVER!

Can totally sympathize with both Calvin and Mom. (When did I start sympathizing with grown-ups?) :-)

I am lucky I really enjoy Calvins antics ,I think its because I am not sure that I am smarter than Calvin.

All Mom needs to do is suggest to Calvin that he become Submarine Man and cruise around in the bathtub for a while. She could run her hands over him to clean him while he thinks its seaweed, of course….

That was when I started having my kids take showers.

time to play tub submarine,mom.

LOL! Some kids you can’t get into the tub—and then you can’t get them out of the tub.

Gotta go with Dogsniff on this one Gweedo. What does being a Zappa fan have to do with it? As I parent, I find the suggestion of drowning a child disturbing, especially in the name of humor(do you think anyone thought that was funny, really). Maybe Dogsniff’s a parent too. As for exturk, there’s always one in the crowd. Just saying…

Calvin hates baths anyway…the water is too wet.

Well, I see Calvin (or his mom) somehow got all the bubblegum from yesterday off his face without taking off all the skin and out of his hair without having to shave him bald!

;-)

jkhandy I think we in the USA are VERY blessed and probably take a lot of things for granted. For myself…I give thanks every day.

No such thing.