Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 28, 2023

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    BE THIS GUY  over 1 year ago

    Calvin should buy the first copy of his book.

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    Imagine  over 1 year ago

    The problem with problems is that they are problems.

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    codycab  over 1 year ago

    A number of flaws with this plan: First, since when does Calvin help people? Second, what and how exactly does he know about things like sex appeal? Third, isn’t thinking about yourself a way to motivate yourself? I’ve got a long list but I think this will be enough.

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    Bilan  over 1 year ago

    The title should be: The Self-Helpless Self Help Book.

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    JudasPeckerwood  over 1 year ago

    Sure you can write a sequel — just call it “I Can Still Hear You Whining…”

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    The Reader Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I think I’ll wait for Hobbes’s ‘A Tiger’s Book About Life!’

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    Dr. Quatermass  over 1 year ago

    Panel 6 starts a self-help book inception!

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    snsurone76  over 1 year ago

    Think that book will be made into a movie?? Or find a place on Oprah’s bookshelf??

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    Scorpio Premium Member over 1 year ago

    The first few panels describes perfectly what some cable news channels and social media sites are like. Calvin really did a good job at predicting the future.

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    Calvinist1966  over 1 year ago

    Today’s reprint is a marvellous example of Calvin’s cynical side and also of the big ambitions which he fails to carry out. Watterson has explained that he often disagrees with what Calvin says but this time Calvin is saying out loud what Bill Watterson feels about how people are willingly manipulated.

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    boniface22  over 1 year ago

    Brilliant strip and so close to real life. He could actually have a point.

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    Johnny Q Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Self-help culture goes back to Benjamin Franklin…

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    rmercer Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Sequel? Piece o’ cake. “It’s Not Your Fault: Why your family, friends, and country are failing to make your life as great as you deserve”

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    Little Caesar  over 1 year ago

    “The World’s 10 Most Humble Men (and How I Met the Other 9)”

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    [Traveler] Premium Member over 1 year ago

    This could easily have a political sub caption

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    aerotica69  over 1 year ago

    Thanks for the idea, Calvin. Hopefully I can have it out by Christmas.

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    tripwire45  over 1 year ago

    Watterson totally nailed the 2020s and social media. The guy was a prophet.

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    sandpiper  over 1 year ago

    Cal just verbalized a Mobius strip. That’s hard to do in one sitting.

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    Detroit Dan  over 1 year ago

    Nailed it, as most commercials sell fear and insecurity.

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    Saddenedby Premium Member over 1 year ago

    silly humans, we’ll believe anything – “this way to the egress”

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    Brent Rosenthal Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Wow what a prescient strip! And a wonderful concept for a book

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    Redd Panda  over 1 year ago

    I got the DVD set. Really works. And retiring helped too.

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    You know, it seems to me like there was a thing called “est” training some time back in history. It sounds like what Calvin plans to write about. Boot Camp for civilians.

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    gantech  over 1 year ago

    ♪♫

    I turn on the tube what do I see

    A whole lotta people cryin’ don’t blame me

    They point their crooked little fingers everybody else

    Spend all their time feelin’ sorry for themselves

    Victim of this victim of that

    Your momma’s too thin and your daddy’s too fat

    Get over it

    Get over it

    All this whinin’ cryin’ pitchin’ a fit

    Get over it get over it

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    rshive  over 1 year ago

    These days, Calvin, a sequel is a must.

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    flagmichael  over 1 year ago

    Every school textbook, and every instructional book, and all friendly advice, could be described that way. You have a cut on the sole of your foot from a piece of glass in the swimming pool. You can’t hold pressure on it long enough to get it to stop. Another swimmer says, “fold a towel over a couple times and sit, leaning forward, with the towel under your foot for ten minutes or so.” You have learned a new trick to get through life.

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    loveabulldesign  over 1 year ago

    A very good summary of Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning”

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    ladykat  over 1 year ago

    I don’t think this will work, Calvin.

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    French Persons Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Watterson was always really good at using this comic for social commentary.

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    formathe  over 1 year ago

    20 years later this is needed more than ever.

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    BoydAdams  over 1 year ago

    Inspirational!

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    smsrt  over 1 year ago

    I would SO buy that!

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    smsrt  over 1 year ago

    By the way… is there a chapter about reparations?

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    bolo  over 1 year ago

    who would give one second to an influencer?

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    jdsven  over 1 year ago

    No…but you could write a heck of a revised second edition that includes social media.

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    g04922  over 1 year ago

    Calvin is a genius at figuring out how to manipulate people.

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 1 year ago

    sure, Calvin

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    The Wolf In Your Midst  over 1 year ago

    Ha ha! This sure shows how stupid those young folks are today! Not like back in my day, where we were all smart and wise and perfect!

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    Some of you don’t need others to fool you. You do a fantastic job of fooling yourselves!

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    cmxx  over 1 year ago

    An author had better not spend his advance until his book sells well, in case it doesn’t and he’s required to give the advance back.

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    Doctor Go  over 1 year ago

    20 years ago – the creation of the current Republican playbook…

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    Spacetech  over 1 year ago

    JORDAN PETERSEN has the market cornered.

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    viniragu  over 1 year ago

    The WOKE culture could use this book!!!

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    BiggerNate91  over 1 year ago

    Now I can’t tell if Calvin and Hobbes was ahead of its time or the world simply just hasn’t changed.

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    mindjob  over 1 year ago

    I don’t think people will take advice from a 6 year old. Maybe when he turns 7.

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    kathleenhicks62  over 1 year ago

    Thinking about one’s self is human nature. . . .

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    willie_mctell  over 1 year ago

    Don’t worry. Dr Phil made an entire career out of this strategy. “How’s that working for you?”

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    mistercatworks  over 1 year ago

    The basis of the self-help industry is each author thinks “one size fits all”. For individual problems, you need individual solutions.

    There is a cycle in pop psychology. A charismatic professional helps a lot of people. He thinks it is due to his theory more than his charisma. He tries to teach it to more people. In general, they fail to have the same success due to lacking charisma or other non-transferrable skills. Time for a new fad. My second wife was a psychotherapist and we lived through several of these fads.

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    einarbt  over 1 year ago

    Brilliant, as usual.

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