Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 14, 2020

No PR firm will take you on as a client.

Way too many people in Washington DC and numerous state capitols have that philosophy that Calvin expresses in the fourth panel.

Perhaps Calvin needs a PA not a PR? Of course it always helps if you actually start the task you are given.

This is a job for John Barron (John “Calvin” Barron).

A candidate for electro-shock therapy. That’ll bring him around!!

He’s going to be stuck in that room.

Yup! Right there with you Calvin. Unfortunately, moms are kinda impervious to PR.

Need a shovel more like….

Future politician.

Probably a bit of both, Calvin.

Much to-do about nothing?

Channeling Joe!

It’s work either way, Calvin. P.R., or cleaning up. You can’t escape it.

And the spin doctor is born.

That’s Calvin, always putting more effort into avoiding a job than in just doing it.

A CEO in the making.

Calvin already shows he may be looking at a career in politics. Another early warning from Watterson.

Don’t worry Mom, his future wife will straighten himout, or…

What happened to the water clog in the kitchen sink??

I suspect Microsoft had the same idea.

See, anyone can grow up to be President.

Hell actually isn’t that bad…It just needs a better public relations firm…

Just one more indication that Calvin will inevitably become a politician!

An homage from Bill Holbrook<https://www.kevinandkell.com/1996/kk0101.html>

Give all you got and Mom still criticizes. tsk

from 1985

“You should take pride in what you do—” “I do! You’re the one who doesn’t take pride in what I do!”

Future Illinois Politician: “I know we didn’t do a good job the past 20 years, but vote for my party again and things will get better!

Mom – make him a list of what to do and take pictures of the finished product. Then tell him until it looks like these pictures, you are not finished.

An anagram of “public relations” is “I care to spin bull.”

Yeah… blame it on PR. You have done a neat job.

I love the hunched Calvin in the second panel. So typical of both childrens and adults gesture when asked to do a room cleaning routine.

Wow! That sounds like the strategy someone is using to get re-elected president.