Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 31, 2014

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    BE THIS GUY  almost 10 years ago

    That’s what you get for giving him the Oxford English Dictionary for Christmas.

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    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.

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    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)
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    Tah Tah  almost 10 years ago

    ah haha go go

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    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

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    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.

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    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.

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    GROG Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    All the news that’s not fit to print.

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    rshive  almost 10 years ago

    He picks up the trade fast.

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    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!

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    SallyLin   almost 10 years ago

    Yellow journalism at its finest!

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    LtPowers  almost 10 years ago

    Why is it that Mom and Dad never encourage his creativity?

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    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”.

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    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…

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    nosirrom  almost 10 years ago

    Now if she said venison.

    Knife wielding mother slaughters Bambi to satisfy carnivorous cravings of family
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    Aaron Saltzer  almost 10 years ago

    I’d call the page, “Calvin’s Household Exaggerations”. Haha

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    UpaCoCoCreek Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    Just a matter of perspective.

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    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.

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    dflak  almost 10 years ago

    Film at 11.

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    weatherford.joe Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    Looks like we may have another Charles Foster Kane on our hands.

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    ChessPirate  almost 10 years ago

    And below the fold: “Intrepid reporter ejected from food establishment for exposing scandal!”

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    Karaboo2  almost 10 years ago

    Something fishy about that headline.

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    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.

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    news_techren  almost 10 years ago

    When I want news reporting this good, I watch Fox News.

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    Jules934  almost 10 years ago

    Quite a vocabulary for a little kid!

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    eccolibri60 Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    For a kid who hates school, his vocabulary is amazing.

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    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!

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    2252895  almost 10 years ago

    Have a wonderful NEW YEAR my fellow GOCOMICS fans.

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    AliCom  almost 10 years ago

    Don’t act too hasty Mom, he just might be the next ‘Stephen King’.

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    Pthhht!  almost 10 years ago

    Calvin will fit right in with the lamestream media. Might even get a job with MSNBC.

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    Number Three  almost 10 years ago

    “Come on, scat!”

    xxx

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    sunchaunzo  almost 10 years ago

    How Fox News got it’s start!

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    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.

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