Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 12, 2020

Hobbes can sleep on the couch.

I’m guessing his mom already caught it previously because she doesn’t seem to be too concerned about him being near her.

Hobbes: If I catch it, tuna is the only cure.

Hobbes in the third panel is like, “You sure?”

Chicken pox is not zoonotic, so Hobbes (in fact, all animals) has nothing to fear from Calvin.

Run Hobbes!

Not plush tigers, no…

Be kinda embarrassing for a tiger to be associated with anything chicken.

Anyway spots and stripes don’t go together…

After this Hobbes may need to be washed & sterilised. Well there goes his future:)

Enjoy your shingles in 50 yrs Calvin.

Hobbes’s expression in Panel 3: priceless.

Hobbes isn’t convinced that chicken pox builds character.

Well, now that I think about it, Hobbes is an imaginary friend Tiger. Maybe he can catch sympathetic Chicken Pox. I don’t think he would be very sympathetic if he did though.

Friendship only goes so far.

Not that Calvin is ever easy to care for, but the next week or so will be a real headache for Mom-Dad gets to go to work; lucky man.

Shades of Wolverine!

Fangs for the warning, Hobbes!

LOVE Clavin’s face in the third panel! HAHAHAHAHA!!!

Careful tigers may not get chicken pox but people can get them twice!

I dunno. Given the itching, those claws are starting to look pretty good. I didn’t even have a bad case when I had mine, all those years ago, but it did ruin a year’s worth of otherwise perfect attendance at Sunday School.

Hobbes, just be glad you don’t live in the Velveteen Rabbit era, where sick kids had all their toys burned.

For a minimalist drawing of cartoon characters, Bill Watterson does wonders with facial expressions.

Would Cat Scratch Fever counteract Chicken Pox?

Oh look! I have a paw full of claws!

What pet owners are facing now with COVID-19. Though I doubt many people have psycho jungle cats as pets.

Social distancing, you know.