Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 26, 2012

Ask Mom for some calamine lotion.

resist the itch to scratch

Hilarious imagery.

Funky Calvin. It goes with “Call me Maybe”

Sometimes other bugs bite, and they make the same hard fight!

Kinda looks like the feelings one gets when refraining, and then giving in, to using credit cards.

Hey guys, I’m going to school in 2 days, so I might not be commenting as much. But this doesn’t mean I won’t comment anymore. I am not leaving Calvin and Hobbes or any other comic that I usually read.

@torn newspaper: Are you the same 11-year-old who went under the name of “snoop(something or other”)? If so, I hope your leg is better and good luck in school.

My leg isn’t hurt. It is Snoopster that had the “(injured”)

I know the feeling, Calvin. Just hope you’re not in the land of West Nile.

Click here: Peanuts (April 29, 1960)

@torn newspaper, Kab Buch, and others: Good luck in school this fall. My summer is winding down and I’ll also be commenting less beginning this week, due to a new time commitment. I’ll still be posting some comic strips periodically.Click here: Peanuts (November 16, 1980)

Scratch till you bleed, and then scratch off the scabs. Helps keep iron overload at bay.

I love every frame, but the last is perfection.

We’ll miss you, Hobbes my boy.

If it itches…scratch.

If it doesn’t…scratch someone else.

If they they don’t have an itch…give them one.

Calvin gives many itches and then scratches…nobody.

Calvin has to start from scratch!

It’s deja vu all over again!

I’ve gone through all those contortions reading the comments section here…have also laughed a lot.

RIP Neil Armstrong.

@TheSkulker: Never fear. I do remember a lot of the strips, and with Peanuts, I often remember the approximate time frame; but no, I don’t remember the exact dates. I have my own searchable data that I’ve built up over the years on my computer, consisting of key words together with the date for each strip. Whenever I see a strip that I like, I save the information. If I remember a specific strip, including some of the text, I can often find it almost immediately using a computer search. But if I’m just searching for any strip that happens to fit the theme of the day, even though I don’t remember it, that can take a lot longer. After I locate the data for a particular strip, that gives me the date, which I then use to locate the strip on GoComics. Then I post the strip here using the GoComics link. Today was easy, because I remembered the Lucy and Charlie Brown strip. I didn’t remember the Snoopy strip, but I found it by searching for the word “scratch.”

New insight into an old song: the more you itch, the more you (usually) scratch. Don’t know any songs about mind over matter. Never mind. Doesn’t matter.

Calvin should get some of under the bed monsters to rub his itches for him. :D

I’ve tried to ignore an itch. Why is it that it just won’t stop itching until you scratch it. It just won’t!Thanks again Hobbes – will watch for the strips you can give us.To all starting the school year – study hard and have fun.

The best faces in cartoon history!

I felt like that the other day when I got a bug bite.

@Boise State vs. Michigan StateIt’s great your cast will be off Thursday! You’ve already started school right? If you have, how’s it going? : )

Sympathy and best wishes to the students, get better wish for the leg, and thanks to Hobbes for the great strips. (or is that stripes? :) )

Fantastic artwork today.

Third panel from the end: Are you sure the look on his face is from scratching bug bites? Where can I find those bugs?

LOVE LOVE LOVE the last Panel!

xxx

@Hobbes

Thanks for all the strips that relate to C&H and add to the fun. Hope you enjoy your next endeavor.

This is thr first comic strip, I don’t understand.

I’ve been reading and enjoying all your comments for years, so I thought I’d better join since iGoogle is leaving — I get C&H on my home page every morning. IMO it’s the best comic strip EVER — no one has ever come close.

bug bites…use lotion.

last time i itched that bad i had poison ivy. it itched about 2 weeks

Diphenhydramine (benedryl) blocks the histamine and stops the itch. Use topically or internally.

@tornnewspaper, have a good year in school. We’ll miss you.

How come I got some itches reading the comic, but even more reading the comments????

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MOM!!

I remember having a bad itch because of a allergic reaction to an eye drop medicine. It was terrible.

@JP Steve: It’s also “a time to gather together to watch football.”

@Perkycat, @cookies333, and others: Glad you enjoy the extra strips. I always enjoy “rediscovering” them, sometimes years later.

…like 12-year old scotch.

For years I suffered from facial excema that itched like temptation. I learned to smack the skin smartly next to the itchy patch instead of scratching till it bled. It would stop the itch for a few minutes. This didn’t help when I was asleep, though. You can scratch in your sleep and not even know it.After years of doctors and cortisone creams that didn’t really help, and did scar the skin, I found a cure: one of my students is an estheticienne (skin consultant) to the kind of people who get their photos in Hello magazine. She brought me a sample bottle of one of her skin creams that cleared it up in two weeks. I googled the product name; it comes from some Paris “spa” and is so expensive they don’t offer it online. Curiously enough, her name is Consuelo, which means “comfort.” Indeed.Gracias, Consuelo.

Calvin has just invented a new character = plastic man…

If it’s poison ivy, Calvin, as the song goes: “…you’re gonna need a ocean, of Calamine lotion..”