Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 11, 2023

Time and labor with a noble goal.

I’ll bet Calvin filled those balloons with something other than water.

If only there were grades for throwing water balloons.

There must be some way to parlay these skills into a future career.

Here in Tennessee the kids are lucky to get a month and a half for summer vacation.

That first of three signs should read Hey, stupid people,

Serious envy here for that treehouse!

Subtle, Calvin. Very subtle.

The devil is in the details.

How to win friends and influence people, badly…

After the first balloon drop nobody will come near the wet spot!

Susie gets hit, Cal’s cruisin’ for a bruisin’

Community service: cooling people off for free.

I wonder—if Moe was hit with one of Calvin’s water balloons, would he uproot that whole tree??

Nice touch, putting the cross in the lower left corner.

He drops one of those water balloons on anybody and his little hind end won’t hold shuckings. Yes, I speak from childhood personal experience…

Bombs Away!

So in the States you guys get 3 months off? In Canada we go until the end of June and back the day after labour day.

What will he think of next?

Bombs away!

Such great perspective on this tree! Bill Watterson must have climbed up there to draw it!

All you’ll do is make Susie mad, and then she will feed you your water balloons.

“There’s 104 days of summer vacation …”

Even being naughty takes a little effort sometimes. But, it’s worth it …until you’re caught.

probably way harder than he works at school or chores

“There’s a hundred and four days of summer vacation ’til school comes along just to end it, So the annual problem of our generation is finding a good way to spend it!” “So stick with us ’cause Calvin and Hobbes are gonna do it all!”

Another Sunday strip where Waterson said “Screw you!” to the newspapers who wanted to break up his panel layouts.

Looks like he’s going to use up his whole summer allotment of balloons before Summer has even begun. :)

No one would stand on a large X without looking up first. Maybe Calvin would, but not anyone smart.

In my county in FL kids got out of school May 25 and go back August 10.

Welcome Suzy

This comic is an example of why Bill Watterson was a genius (and why he drove comics page editors to distraction). Look at that composition and perspective. No one else was doing that at the time.

One things for sure, he’ll never make it to the major leagues

I mean, there’s a difference between “nothing we have to do” and “nothing we want to do”…

Calvin hits Susie with a water balloon—and he may as well stay in the tree for the summer.

A month on, not a month off.

Calvin should be learning the importance of Pride Month, or listening to men in heavy makeup and G-strings read him stories.

What’s in the balloons? In the dorm I lived in some people filled them with milk and gave the milk time to age a bit.

As Calvin once said, “It’s only work when someone makes you do it.”

Just remember, Calvin. You gotta come down sometime.

Idle hands are the devils workshop. Maybe because he himself sits back and lets others do his work. Like Calvin for instance.

No way they are going to hit that X from up there.

Susie will smell that from a mile fellas. Parents may be sitting ducks.

Love the drone shot, Bill, much before they were fashion.

The art work here isn’t develish, it’s divine. Calvin, however…