Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 17, 2022

I guess we wouldn’t like Calvin when he’s angry.

Happy Easter

Also, a good day to go golfing if the weather obliges.

Calvin…..the artiste.

Accurate, isn’t it?

Know of any gifted six-year-old illustrators?

Hate to break the truth to you about your hands, Calvin, but you NEVER had the right number of fingers

Yes, at the end!!

Interesting how a person who can draw (Watterson) is drawing someone who can’t draw!

Win, lose or draw

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. – Pablo Picasso.

Still looks better than some other cartoons I’ve seen these days.

I think every kid has felt this frustration when his art didn’t turn out the way he wanted it to.

This reminds me of “The Family Circus”, where 7-year old Billy “takes over” drawing duties from his father.

Happy Easter.

I guess cartooning isn’t in Calvin’s future You’d think a kid with his imagination might enjoy it.

Bringing out his inner devil……..

Calvin and Hobbes always makes a good deal out of Christmas but it never seems to mention Easter. Since Easter is a moveable feast, it would have played havoc with the reprints.

Besides Christmas, the strip noted four Saint Valentine’s Days in its ten-year history. It made surprisingly little mention of Halloween.

Watterson drawing poorly is like a good singer singing poorly. It takes a gift to do it well.

I’m with you, Cal. The only thing I could ever draw is beer out of as keg.

Calvin is showing how he sees himself behind his front.

I imagine Bill W. has read comments like these… and made a comic out of it.

It’s not that bad Calvin. You’re just impatient.

Sigh… Calvin can be sooooooo temper…mental.

He’s an expressionist.

Mom once got a panicked phone call from the kindergarten teacher. “Tentoes can’t color!”

Hate to say that it is a lot better then I could have done. My art teachers would give me a C if I just shown up and my music teacher would give me a B if at the festival I would just move my mouth but not have anything come out.Math though I didn’t have to do homework as I could do the problems in my head. Everyone has their own thing.

Okay, I’m not ashamed to admit, I flunked art class. In my own defense, I still see no reason to glue macaroni to craft paper and paint it gold. I thought the cheese was gold enough even if it didn’t stick to the paper to good.

I Think Hobbes is referring to panel 9, which is a genius.

Calvin would be better at drawing monster comics

Oh no, oh no!!

For those who always wanted to know how to draw Calvin, you start with that second to last panel and work with patience and very good eraser until you get something that looks like Calvin in the last panel. Then, you get another hobby. :)

Calvin, if only you could have been drawn by kindergarten-age ME, your fingers would have been OPPOSITE – sticks with circles at the ENDS of them. Perhaps you could have licked them like lollipops!

I think I had trouble with a self portrait art assignment too as a kid.

Calvin has done a left-brain drawing, in which the brain analyses the subject and creates a representation in code – a circle for a round head, etc, etc.

What Watterson draws is right-brain drawing, which shows the subject as it actually looks.

It is perfectly possible to train your brain to switch off the left side, and then the right brain will take over. I’ve trained teenagers to do this, with great results, but teachers are not generally trained to teach this. They just throw the materials at the kids, and the ones who can naturally switch off their left brain will emerge.

Hi hi hi, to you all/

Who am I?

Call me SKRAWL!

Hobbes is spot on…it really was getting good…

or telling golfing jokes . . . Jesus Christ and Moses are golfing and, at the next hole, Jesus pulls out an iron. Moses says, “I think you should use a wood on this one.”Jesus says, “I saw Tiger Woods use an iron so I’m using an iron.” He wacks the ball and it goes straight into the water.Moses says, “I’ll get it.” He goes to the water, parts it, and brings the ball back to Jesus.Moses says, “Now will you use a wood?” Jesus says, "If Tiger Woods can do it, I can do it and hits the ball again, and it goes right back into the water.Jesus says, “I’ll get it.” He’s walking on the water, looking down for his ball, when two guys come along to tee up. One guy notices Jesus and says, "Oh, my goodness, who does he think he is? Jesus Christ?Moses says, “No. He thinks he’s Tiger Woods.”

Look at his moronic expression! 9

His face reveals no spark of intelligence! 11

He is devoid of reality and substance! 12

It’s a new type of haiku I do believe.

There are days I feel like that! The ball and stick hands are particuarly annoying during dinner!

One of the funniest Sunday strips of that year! I did a fan-make of that with Daffy Duck in place of Calvin… https://d.furaffinity.net/art/wilee2005/1592946701/1592946701.wilee2005_daffy_drawing_comic.jpg

At least he got the hair right!

i think it’s pretty good calvin (for a six year old)

Calvin goes physco on paper. LOL.