Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 15, 2023

I don’t want no cat’s butt near my face!

Because that red shirt is too small for Hobbes.

No “butt’s” about it, Hobbes.

The baboons seem fine with showing off their naked pink butts.

Hermit crabs

Baboons. And they really should cover them up.

The dryas monkey has a bright blue butt.

Isn’t evolution wonderful?

Normalize nudity.

Reacting to Hobbes making you the butt of his joke, Calvin?

Didn’t Calvin learn about evolution. We lost our fur so we can sweat, a huge advantage in hunting and escaping.

Ask your dad. I’m sure he’ll have an interesting answer.

Calvin’s feet are awfully big, do you suppose he’ll grow into them?

Always thought prehensile tails would be pretty handy.

I know of an Emperor who had no clothes…

Well, to be totally honest, most aren’t.

That all depends on the butt, Cal m’boy. For instance, Her butt is amazing!! Well, OK – it was amazing when She was 28, and well into Her 40s; today at 68, maybe not quite so much. But She’s still the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen!

LOL… gotta love Hobbes.

Along that same line, humans are the only animals that wear the skins of OTHER animals.

“Man is the only animal that blushes- or needs to.” – Mark Twain

And the man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed. (Gen 2:25)

“I heard Your voice in the garden,” he replied, “and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.”

“Who told you that you were naked?” asked the LORD God. “Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”

And the man answered, “The woman whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.(Gen 3:10-12, 21)

bro

…and some butts are finer than others…

The Disney animals mostly all wear clothes even if they don’t always cover their butts.

Why do cartoonist draw children as if they were < 3’ tall? Calvin is always drawn as if he is <2’ tall when he should be 4’ tall. It is the same in just about every strip. Big Nate for example is drawn waist high to adults (3’), when he should be 5’. Is it because a 4’ Calvin would not be cute?

Bill Watterson’s art speaks for itself. You cannot draw a kid getting in a tub better than that.

No ifs, ands or butts about it, Calvin, au naturale is best.

Know of any tigers who wear clothes? First that comes to mind is businessman tycoon Shere Khan in Tale Spin.

we’re the only species who live outside the natural climate we evolved in, without the protection of clothes a typical human will begin shivering once the temperature drops below 70. Perhaps if we never left northern Africa we wouldn’t have bothered inventing them.

There was a student (I won’t name the college) who came to class nude. No one paid him any never-minds till he started to stink.

Men who have enjoyed looking at Playboy models see nothing at all wrong with naked pink butts.

Hermit crab wear shells. And change their outfits occasionally…