Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 01, 2012

poor calvin

Sleeping on the roof, an old fashioned way to beat the heat.

It isn’t always easy having a tiger for a best friend.

The C&H version of the ending credits of The Flintstones.

That was sand-man, Calvin!!

Here we have hot weather, between 30 and 40°C. But, when you open the window in the night, cold air comes in . I got a sore throat and cough and people ask me, why I am suffering on this when weather is so hot!

I only Calvin would learn when to shut his mouth.

And if he moves only a little he’s going to sliiiiiiiiiiiiiiide all the way to a grisly, Calvinesque end.

Click here: Peanuts (October 12, 1980)

why can’t the lad and cat switch places on the bed?

I don’t even want to know how either a stuffed tiger or an imaginary one can have “a big, hot, furry body” – partly because if I did, I’d know how Hobbes does everything else and quite frequently to Calvin’s detriment.

(yes, as usual for me at these wee hours, I’m being hyperliteral just for the sake of being hyperliteral)

@King Shark: Ummmm………….. Thou art welcome, oh ruler of the finned predators. I won’t let that comment go to my head. Don’t want to become light-headed.

Click here: Peanuts (August 11, 1957)

Click here: Peanuts (March 8, 1981)

Gotta love Hobbes’s expression in the third panel: the expression of someone who’s finally had it with Calvin. It’s more commonly found on Mom’s face.

I guess I should be glad my cats aren’t strong enough to do the same to me in summer.

That isn’t the first time your big mouth worked against you, Calvin.

child abuse? why club a poor seal, when you can club Hobbes?

This is hysterical.

@Snoopy_Fan: You must be a real Snoopy Fan………At least Calvin doesn’t have to sleep on the peak of the roof like Snoopy, and he is able to feel the breeze now. Regardless, he looks shingle-air-ly uncomfortable. (Sorry, that one was for Puddleglum.)

Love that hahahaha klunk bit with Woodstock & Snoopy. :)I had a teddy that took up too much room in the bed and made me sleep against the cold wall. He never threatened to strangle me but he had a killer look of reproach if I ever tried to make him switch sides. So I didn’t.

Watterson’s ink work is brilliant.

Serves you right, Calvin.

LOL LOL xxx

So this was a case of open mouth….insert shingle?.Hobbes I had forgotten all about Charlie Brown’s night cap. Thanks for that blast from the past. :-)

@Hobbes,“shingle-air-ly uncomfortable”I ‘gritted’ my teeth or I would have ‘raised the roof’ on that one!You should be ‘tarred’ and ‘furthered’ by the women of Marblehead!

“And Mom can’t imagine how my pajamas get so gritty.”Mom is dull-witted as well as unimaginative if she can’t figure it out!Apparently Calvin’s imagination comes from Dad. Duh!

@MORMON,You’re quite right, of course, but then there wouldn’t be a problem. It’s in the same category with them who say Calvin should keep his mouth shut and he wouldn’t end up on the roof. However, we have a right to be logical even if the cartoon isn’t!

When Calvin tells his mom what happened she’s going to think he’s crazy!

let sleeping tigers lye

he’s getting lots of practice for the married life

Them old ashfelt shingles sure are gritty ,It is a poor place to sleep, but if you toss around in your sleep your going to be on the lawn ,not so gritty.

Mebbe…whatcha got?

Sleeping With Pets . . . Expectations vs. Reality

Hobbes, Number Six, Night-Gaunt49, Molly mcgee, Sandy Shore, Vonne Anton, Teresa, Blue Pumpkin, The Snoopster, lectricdude and It is Alive!:

Thank you all so much for your kind words yesterday. They were very much appreciated! Cancer is one of those cruel diseases that can strike anyone, anywhere, at any time . . . it knows no boundaries of any kind — age, sex, race, religion, social/economic status, etc. None of that stuff matters to cancer one little bit. Sometimes you’re lucky and you survive . . . other times, you can give it your all and still not make it. My dad didn’t 10 years ago (among many others in his/my family) and unfortunately, my cousin didn’t either. She fought the good fight for 4 long years but in the end, it was just too much for her and she finally had to let go. The one good thing about her death is the fact that she doesn’t have to suffer with it anymore.

:-(

Live everyday as though it were your last because you just never know when it will be!!!!!

If you’re a thrasher and traveler like I am, it would be off the roof and into the hospital….

Sleeping on the roof… I laughed.

Actually, it’s so hot in his room, he probably apprcietes Hobbes doing that.

I’m seeing a total “The Simpsons” moment in panel 3.

I love that place

you can take a tiger out of the jungle but you can,t take jungle out of a tiger.