Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 10, 2022

Darn, it always turns out to be your best friend.

Oh sure, blame the tiger!

It could’ve been the monsters under the bed, you know.

it took Calvin that long to figure it out?

The jig is up!!!!

Hobbes you are so BUSTED!!

Keep your friends close and enemies closer. But sometimes they’re one and the same.

Hard to account for a stuffed toy going through the process to reach this point.

Hobbes’ reality is much more complex that just a real tiger in Cal’s eyes only.

The letters are coming from inside the house! (from When a Mailer Calls)

Aaaand…. the sh*t has just hit the fan

Hobbes is still looking so innocent……

The Mail is Coming from Inside The House!

when I was a kid (long before dinosaurs) I blamed my monkey stufed pet of trying to burn my bed…

When I started reading this marvellous strip in November 1987, I assumed that the fact that characters other than Calvin see Hobbes as a stuffed doll meant that Hobbes is a stuffed doll. I started to question this assumption in May 1988 when I read my first collection “Something Under The Bed Is Drooling”.

The first strip to show Hobbes as alive without Calvin was a Sunday strip in which Calvin made a parachute out of a bedsheet and jumped from his bedroom window. In the last panel, Hobbes looked directly at us and said to us, “His Mom’s going to have a fit about those rose bushes.”

In a later strip, Calvin was sitting on his sled near a tree and wishing it to snow. It appeared to start snowing. Calvin ran to the house shouting “Mom! Mom! I’ve made it snow! I’m psychokinetic!” The last panel showed that Hobbes was up the tree and had dumped the contents of a pillow onto Calvin. Hobbes was grinning at us and saying, “Ooh! He’s going to hate me for this!” That one was a lot like this story arc!

So, it was Hobbes after all.

What percentage of viewers already knew that??

Now, THAT’S imagination. I love it.

The truth is revealed!

Time to face the music, Hobbes…so what kind would you like to hear?

SMARTY CAT !

Dr. Calvin and Mr. Hobbes

Sounds like Hobbes needs a better hobby. :)

This involves a metaphysical mystery.

We all know that Hobbes is Calvin’s ‘alter ego’ that only he can see and interact with. Could be early stages of a type of Schizophrenia. Keep an eye on the kid.

From ‘Mastermind’ to ‘Orange Flea Bait’ in less than 24hrs.

Way to go Hobbes!

BUSTED!

I had a hunch it was him! Hobbes is a real cut-up!☺️☺️☺️☺️

Sooo, they’re both right. It’s coming from the house but not, exactly, from Calvin. …nice.

Whew, I thought for a short while they came from Susie.

Years ago we responded to some junk mail with the name of my wife’s teddy bear. 20+ years later we still get mail to ‘Annabelle’ and every time we do we know where they bought their lists.

ps the bear loves getting invites to dinners to hear about time shares and sales on motorbikes and investment opportunities. She pouts when she doesn’t get to go to the dinners.

“A Conspiracy Unmasked”…the name of a chapter in “Fellowship of the Ring”.

He is catched red handed!

Flee bait! That’s good!

There you go Calvin, blame the stuffed toy.

“They smile in your face and all the time…” The Backstabbers by the O’Jays

Ah so it was Calvin who grew up and was the true story behind the movie “Fight Club.”

it’s sad because Calvin has ADD and schizophrenia, so that’s why everything comes to life and that’s why only Calvin can only see Hobbs alive

Mom should have kept an eye on Hobbes during the day. He got into a lot of trouble when Calvin was at school.

Hobbes doing this by himself, without Calvin knowing about it, does not make any logical sense. But it is still pretty funny.

I knew it!

At least it wasn’t the butler.

Time to go into camouflage mode.

Multiple personality disorder is cuter when you’re a little kid. Usually.

And Hobbes is busted.

If I were mom, I would seriously consider having the kid screened for schizophrenia. This seems to go beyond “imaginery friend.”

Hobbes rolling his eyes in yesterday’s strip already gave him away! Now he just needs to be wearing a trenchcoat and fedora hat in the fourth panel…

Don’t you have to have opposable thumbs to use scissors?

and here i was thinkin it was susie :/

Strippy orange flea bait.

Hobbes, I am shocked! *Shocked*… that you didn’t have sense enough make and mail those letters at someone else’s house.

Told you it would turn out to be Hobbes….

For those that think this is somehow proof that “Hobbes” did it, I’ll point out that the most obvious way his mother knew Calvin was mailing the letters was that she saw him. Not the toy.

The letters are coming from inside the house!

Ha, it was Hobbes, bad tiger.

I wasn’t aware that Tigers had opposable claws.

I think it’s best not to overthink “Calvin and Hobbes.” :-)

Busted.

hey, I got a question for you. which head cannon do you prefer? Hobbes is an imaginary friend that’s represented by a plush. or Hobbes is real, and he’s just disguised as a plush. I have no idea how he would disguise himself as a plush, maybe some sort of magic crap.

I absolutely love Calvin and Hobbes. Thanks a lot Bill Watterson, you are a genius. You make all of our days daily and bring a smile to our faces. Please continue doing this till eternity.

In your fevered imagination.

And some say Hobbes isn’t real :)

It finally dawned up me! Calvin is schizophrenic!