Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 02, 2010

Or child services.

Dad is losing cool points with this one…..LOL

My ancient dad tried this with me, but it didn’t work. The other members of my family agreed with me.

You’re getting hot and bothered, Calvin!

Coldness is building up the character!

Oh, the victim mentality on display.

Was on school camp once and kids wouldn’t settle. So I stood them in the lake. 10 minutes later they promised they would stay in their beds. That was 25 years ago. Couldn’t do it today of course. Ahh, the good ol’ days.

Oh! The victim on ice…………

In the hot summer sometimes my husband takes a hot shower. He says when he gets out it feels cooler. But that feeling doesn’t last long.

Dad’s a genius!

Hey, anyone seen this :

Bill Watterson granted a rare interview to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, his hometown newspaper, today.

In the picture, he looks like a spittin’ image of Calvin’s Dad !

http://www.cleveland.com/living/index.ssf/2010/02/billwattersoncreator_of_belo.html

http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/02/01/calvin-and-hobbes/

You’re getting wiser, Dad!

Nice to see an interview. Thank you for the link. Anool

I did that when my son was little and was having a temper tantrum. I told him to go outside for a few minutes and cool off. It worked. After that all I had to do was threaten him with the same treatment and he’d calm down.

The theory of relativity?

This time dad beat you Calvin!!!

Toss him a sweater. It’s cheaper than gas, oil or electricity.

anool : thanks for the url. I enjoyed it.

Another thanks from me for the link, Anool. The photo was an old one, though, I think. Bill’s similarity to Calvin’s dad has been noted earlier.

Man is pleasure driven….Calvin will get pleasure from going back inside to the warmth. Once back inside he will want more…additional warmth, food, ….etc. It doesn’t end.

Ok, I’ll get in line and thank Anool too, it was great reading. I guess I’ll have to go stand in the ‘dummy’s’ corner…I’ve seen pictures of Watterson before but never noticed the similarity. The only difference is Calvin’s dad is clean shaven, no moustache. I read another interview from Watterson, years ago, where he said he clashed with his editor and I’m guessing he just plain burned out. He did everything himself, he never hired a staff to help with the strip so after putting in all those hours and then having to butt heads with the editor pushed him over the edge and he walked out. On top of all that there were the offers for him to do TV specials and market C and H merchandise which he refused. He’s a quiet man who didn’t like the limelight. Our loss.

We have a mini Hobbes (her name is “Kitty”) and when she doesn’t like the weather outside, she complains to us with plaintive meows - she wants us to fix it. P.S. She is always welcome inside - she just prefers to be outdoors.

LX013, its kinda convenient how every time calvin builds character, dad saves a couple hundred dollars

Florchi, our cats are the same way. They hold us responsible for the weather. But it’s fun when they snuggle up at night. Have you read Heinlein’s The Door Into Summer? He seemed to know cats very well.

To Anool; Thanks for the heads up. While it wasn’t a long article it gave a lot of insight into Mr. Watterson’s thought process.

As far as the appeal of Calvin and Hobbes, I think it has a lot to do with the fact that, while Calvin is a handfull, he’s not a stupid kid. He’s the smart kid with the vivid imagination that we all wanted to be when were growing up. I would even venture to say that the IQ of the average Calvin and Hobbes-ophile is anywhere from 10-15 points higher than that of the average comic strip reader because we understand Calvin and like that kind of kid. So let’s all admit that we are Calvin and Hobbes snobs. Hey, maybe that can be a club, sorta like G.R.O.S.S.

Also thanks for the link, Anool.

Um, maybe someone else said this and I just scanned the comments too quickly, but did anyone mention that Calvin could just put on a sweater? When our kids get cold, we tell them to put on more. It’s my wife who grumbles the most.

I’d say that Calvin’s warming up pretty good now. He’s getting a little steamed.

Well, now we have the proof that Dad is a child abuser. CPS will be very interested in this revelation.

why is this abuse? I think people are getting a little too coddling with children right now, a little eating dirt and being cold doesn’t hurt any but the ones who have health issues, and Calvin does not have those!

Hey Calvin, put on a sweater and long pants!!! This kid’s not real smart.

That is a problem today, media hype has made the dad look like either a tyrant or a total boob, causing the family unit to fall apart………so they side with the brat.

You don’t know what you got til it’s gone!

How can it be cold in there with all that hot air coming out of Calvin’s mouth?

My dad sent me this because I get cold easily. Very funny, ha-ha. ;)

We seem to be forgetting, if Calvin took a common sense approach to everything, well then, we wouldn’t have a strip.

My dad’s definitiion was:

If the child dies, it’s “abuse”. If the child lives, it’s “parenting”.

Thx Dad.

My dad did this to me once. Never let me back in either. I was 21 at the time.

bleeep the bad luck grazer…

Point made.

Just put on a sweat-shirt, Calvin.

God forbid that Calvin wear a sweater or sweatshirt–that’s something you only wear when your Mom is cold…

margueritem said, about 11 hours ago

Or child services.

Yeah, Dad could call child services……oh, you mean CALVIN call CPS.

Bah, Calvin & Hobbes did this joke years ago!

Winter— My wife: I’m cold. Turn up the heat. Me: Put on a sweater

Summer– Me: Hey let’s turn down the air conditioner. It’s cold in here. Wife: Put on a sweater

@ mancocapac

{cricket noises}

Anool, thanks for the URLS, the article was fun to read.

i don’t see how a “few minutes” outside could be cause for a nosy neighbor to call cps – besides that it will have little effect on calvin’s penchant to complain and a big effect on dad’s poll numbers.

Dad’d better watch his back if he lives in Martha Coakely’s state…

By the time Dad decides to let Calvin in, he will have built two or three snowmen, pelted Suzie and friends with slushballs, slide downhill with Hobbes as a co-pilot and frozen Dad´s car with the hose…. What is Dad thinking by allowing Calvin to go outside, unsupervised?

LOL! didn’t see that coming! XD

the Watterson interview was a very good read! Boy how the years fly! And Bill does look like Dad…. wow! :)

smart dad!!!!!!!

mexdr is right Calvin, use your time constructively, destructively, obstructively and any other ivelies you can think of

“dad” should have told him that you’ll get adjusted to the cold.

HA! Let doofy Dad try that one in 2010! He’d learn what the Bad Dad Poll on Death Row is like.

I love when Calvin is in a mood like this. Just look at his little face!!!

Hey Anool, it would have been nice if you credited MrGromit for the links to the article, which he posted yesterday, instead of acting like you found it yourself today. I see you took the two links from my repost, so it was no innocent mistake.

People would do you in for that on a social website!

In the interview, Bill stated he was a very different person now from when he was in his thirtys and writing C&H. Did anyone else note the sarcasm in his responses, especially in his answer to the C&H stamp question. He may feel he is a different person then he was 15-20 years ago but he still shows that sharp Calvinesqe wit.

Tell ‘em, Calvin! I would do the same if it were me.

Tough kid!

@Anool: thanxxx for the link!

I’ll bet it’s possible for two different Calvin & Hobbes fans to find the same Watterson interview. After all, there’s only about one per decade, so people will notice.

I’m just grateful that commenters pointed it out. I didn’t happen to read yesterday’s Comments, so I needed today’s mention and link to Cleveland.com .

The commenters on the Cleveland.com site are right that there isn’t much point in asking Watterson the same old questions about the strip, and Watterson isn’t interested in talking about anything personal, so the reporter’s article is a lot more informative and perceptive than anything in his interview.

I preferred the “interview” (Watterson’s responses to selected questions from among 1000 submitted by fans, still up on the Andrews McMeel website in connection with its publication of the Complete C&H volumes in 2005). There were some imaginative new questions that the artist actually wanted to answer (mostly), so it was more informative and more fun.

I appreciate the strip more than ever now. Let’s just all agree that we’re lucky.

2 thumbs up for Dad, Calvin might ask nicely next time

What I can’t believe is that for once Calvin actually did what his dad told him to do…snicker

If I had spoken to my dad that way when I was a kid, I would have been picking myself up out of the snow… and looking for a new residence!

Thx to dad for teaching me respect! (but it didn’t hurt for Calvin’s to ask nicely! ☺)

Time to elect a new Dad,

JAJAJAJAJAJAJA, I’ll keep that in mind

get some brains,calvin!

Dad knows best.

heh tricky tricky

The kids today! Why, when I was a tad, I walked three miles to school and three miles back, barefoot in the snow, uphill both ways.

ouch