I had a conversation similar to that with my parents. I decided I wouldn’t do my assigned chores. I discovered pretty quickly I could simply do my chores or do my chores with a sore backside.
Reminds me of my younger brother when we were teens. He would not clean his room or make sure his laundry was in the hamper. When She Who Must Be Obeyed had enough she waited for a school day and took everything he owned and put it in a cleaned out storage room/closet about 6’x6’. The was a cot pad thrown in too for sleeping.
Bro was just as stubborn and did not care either so he made it his own for three years. Sometimes the smell was so bad, even with a tiny window opened, that we had to close the door if it had cracked open.
We thought his stint in the USMC would change him. Nope. Decades later he is a hoarder, morbidly obese, and sickly after being fired from many jobs including the one and only one I helped him to get.
As much as I hate to say it and would never tell anyone I know, he and his wife also depend upon social security and disability payments. Parasite is a good descriptive word.
Feeding and sheltering your child is your DUTY as a PARENT, and one that is bound by LAW. Don’t hold that over your kid’s head to get them to do things for you.
BE THIS GUY about 2 years ago
Calvin has found his spirit animal.
Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member about 2 years ago
Individualism. The spirit of capitalism: Calvin the ant did read Max Weber.
C about 2 years ago
With that imagination he oughta be a cartoonist
jasonsnakelover about 2 years ago
What does Calvin the uncle do?
Bilan about 2 years ago
The tyrannosaurus rex evolved into an ant and then into a flea?
sirbadger about 2 years ago
That’s why people reminisce about childhood. It was a time when they could have this attitude.
Charliegirl Premium Member about 2 years ago
Just think what he’ll be like when he’s a teenager!!!
Susan00100 about 2 years ago
Because YOU had him and he’s YOUR responsibility, Mom (and Dad)!!
rentier about 2 years ago
Calvin does his work!
rentier about 2 years ago
What a disgusting flea!
sandpiper about 2 years ago
Calvin changed his self-image from worthless layabout to an irritant that feeds off its hosts, as if that is a win.
Egrayjames about 2 years ago
“In parasitic content”…..It’s what kids do. The key nowadays is to get them weened off by the time they’re 25.
Prey about 2 years ago
Hey Mom and Dad, you started this!
Chithing Premium Member about 2 years ago
Wow, his mom is being cold this morning. Not sure how much she expects a six year old to do around the house.
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member about 2 years ago
People work to get something or to avoid something. Some people get a hiding for avoiding work.
Tarzan & Redd Panda about 2 years ago
Fleas or Ticks? I’d say kids are like giant ticks. They suck the life from you, then drop off and disappear.
rshive about 2 years ago
The Queen Ant has other ideas.
uniquename about 2 years ago
He’s really bugging his mom.
A Hip loving Canadian... about 2 years ago
Calvin the teenager at six… not a pretty sight.
Otis Rufus Driftwood about 2 years ago
Where does he get these ideas from anyway?
Just-me about 2 years ago
I had a conversation similar to that with my parents. I decided I wouldn’t do my assigned chores. I discovered pretty quickly I could simply do my chores or do my chores with a sore backside.
Nuke Road Warrior about 2 years ago
Hate to tell Calvin that the ants that do all the work are ugh, girls.
admiree2 about 2 years ago
Reminds me of my younger brother when we were teens. He would not clean his room or make sure his laundry was in the hamper. When She Who Must Be Obeyed had enough she waited for a school day and took everything he owned and put it in a cleaned out storage room/closet about 6’x6’. The was a cot pad thrown in too for sleeping.
Bro was just as stubborn and did not care either so he made it his own for three years. Sometimes the smell was so bad, even with a tiny window opened, that we had to close the door if it had cracked open.
We thought his stint in the USMC would change him. Nope. Decades later he is a hoarder, morbidly obese, and sickly after being fired from many jobs including the one and only one I helped him to get.
As much as I hate to say it and would never tell anyone I know, he and his wife also depend upon social security and disability payments. Parasite is a good descriptive word.
hooglah about 2 years ago
Why does everyone think they need to comment on everything.
grapefroot about 2 years ago
Fantastic artwork!!
mistercatworks about 2 years ago
This was the fundamental problem with Soviet-style communism. Not that laissez faire capitalism had much to brag about.
Dreaming in Alola about 2 years ago
Feeding and sheltering your child is your DUTY as a PARENT, and one that is bound by LAW. Don’t hold that over your kid’s head to get them to do things for you.
pixiekitten Premium Member about 2 years ago
Calvin and Flik from A Bugs Life would be good friends.
mindjob about 2 years ago
The moral of the story: there is an insect for every situation
schaefer jim about 2 years ago
Now that sounds like the Calvin that I come to know and love!
PC200X about 2 years ago
The snarky look Calvin gives his mom in the next-to-last panel epitomizes a lazy kid better than just about any other image I’ve ever seen.
AndrewSihler about 2 years ago
Terrific art. I’ve said it before, and probably will say it again (try and stop me!), Mr Watterson loves to draw. For which we can all be grateful.
rklynch about 2 years ago
I didn’t know Ants were capable of independent thought…
Bambihunter6 about 2 years ago
Ah! A Progressive Democrat!!!
einarbt about 2 years ago
Calvin certainly knows a lot despite his lack of engagment at school, maybe there is a link?
wiley207 about 2 years ago
Love the hyper-realistic ants and flea!