Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 31, 2014
Transcript:
Calvin: "Hi mom! I'm making my own newspaper to report the events of our household" Mom: "That's nice" Calvin: "Now I'm looking for a page one lead story. Can I interview you?" Mom: "Sure" Calvin: "Ok, what are you cutting up there for dinner?" Mom: "Fish" Calvin: "KNIFE WIELDING MOTHER HACKS ICHTHYOID! GRIM MELEE IS EVENING RITUAL! SUBURBAN FAMILY DEVOURS VICTIM!" Mom: "Out of the kitchen! Out! Out!"
BE THIS GUY almost 10 years ago
That’s what you get for giving him the Oxford English Dictionary for Christmas.
Alexander the Good Enough almost 10 years ago
“Ichthyoid”?!? How DOES this kid come up with a vocabulary befitting a PhD? Small wonder Wormwood doesn’t like him. Calvin no doubt puts her meager vocabulary to shame.
Hobbes Premium Member almost 10 years ago
And this is just Calvin’s straight news story. Wait until you read his editorial section.
The fish in Mom’s kitchen wasn’t as lucky as Goldy in The Far Side:Click here: The Far SideToday’s Calvin and Hobbes strip is from 1989. Stephan Pastis did a series on the tabloids in 2007 in Pearls Before Swine. Here are two strips from that series:Click here: Pearls Before Swine (July 2, 2007)Click here: Pearls Before Swine (July 9, 2007)Tah Tah almost 10 years ago
ah haha go go
ron47 almost 10 years ago
Today is the anniversary of the Last New C&H strip published in 1995. sniff should ould acquaintances be forgot
Aaberon almost 10 years ago
I wish our local boys would try a few new adjectives from time to time; especially since they don’t do much investigative reporting, it might help their usual story about the weather become more interesting.
jbmlaw01 almost 10 years ago
Leadingedge, go easy on Liverlips. Always useful to have the low-information voters self-identify, even if we don’t care what causes their (and they’re) whining.
GROG Premium Member almost 10 years ago
All the news that’s not fit to print.
rshive almost 10 years ago
He picks up the trade fast.
flagmichael almost 10 years ago
This is one of my favorite Calvin strips. His use of obscure words and warped perspectives to sensationalize it is a hoot!
SallyLin almost 10 years ago
Yellow journalism at its finest!
LtPowers almost 10 years ago
Why is it that Mom and Dad never encourage his creativity?
DutchUncle almost 10 years ago
I found the dictionary boring. Roget’s Thesaurus, and even more Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, on the other hand, were a never-ending source of “bon mots”.
neverenoughgold almost 10 years ago
Unless I am mistaken, Calvin and Hobbes was pretty much black and white when it originally ran; except of course, the Sunday editions. Today, there are many more “news” sources and you can get your journalism “colored” pretty much any way you choose…
nosirrom almost 10 years ago
Now if she said venison.
Knife wielding mother slaughters Bambi to satisfy carnivorous cravings of familyAaron Saltzer almost 10 years ago
I’d call the page, “Calvin’s Household Exaggerations”. Haha
UpaCoCoCreek Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Just a matter of perspective.
CalvinObvious almost 10 years ago
Calvin and his pet tiger Hobbes are preparing to celebrate New Year’s Eve with Uncle Max by eating some fish and reading the daily newspaper.
dflak almost 10 years ago
Film at 11.
weatherford.joe Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Looks like we may have another Charles Foster Kane on our hands.
ChessPirate almost 10 years ago
And below the fold: “Intrepid reporter ejected from food establishment for exposing scandal!”
Karaboo2 almost 10 years ago
Something fishy about that headline.
Guilty Bystander almost 10 years ago
Prescient strip, given that 25 years later we’re seeing that sort of “journalism” daily from media outlets desperate to retain their declining number of readers/viewers. It’s sort of like if CNN brought in Jerry Springer because more people are watching HIM than watching THEM…for the same reason.
news_techren almost 10 years ago
When I want news reporting this good, I watch Fox News.
Jules934 almost 10 years ago
Quite a vocabulary for a little kid!
eccolibri60 Premium Member almost 10 years ago
For a kid who hates school, his vocabulary is amazing.
Hobbes Premium Member almost 10 years ago
@Sham_Poser: That’s correct — the reruns of the reruns from the second sabbatical are ending. Sunday should be the beginning of the 1995 strips, since that year began on a Sunday. Right now we are living 25 years in the past, but soon it will be only 20!
2252895 almost 10 years ago
Have a wonderful NEW YEAR my fellow GOCOMICS fans.
AliCom almost 10 years ago
Don’t act too hasty Mom, he just might be the next ‘Stephen King’.
Pthhht! almost 10 years ago
Calvin will fit right in with the lamestream media. Might even get a job with MSNBC.
Number Three almost 10 years ago
“Come on, scat!”
xxx
sunchaunzo almost 10 years ago
How Fox News got it’s start!
Jaybeach almost 10 years ago
Kids all hate fish. In my high school French class everyone noted the French word for fish: “poisson,” and used it regularly.