Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 06, 2023

Chin up, guys. I’m sure you’ll finish the rest eventually.

Time goes fast when you’re having a good time.

Hobbes is wearing swim trunks in the pool, but remains unclothed when he is not in the pool. LOL!

Tempus fugit

Yea! Got Susie with a water balloon!

Is that “suicide drink” an homage to the Rev. Jones??

I’ll have 10 pints of whatever that drink is

They sure got a lot done for not having done half of the things they wanted to.

Summer? What’s that then? (Rain and 12C/53F)

Panel 7 is how I spent much of my summers as a kid. Not digging up the front yard, but searching for fossils on our farm and in nearby rock quarries.

I mentioned yesterday that today’s strip might be the one based on Watterson’s Summer memories. I said that this strip would be reprinted either today or next Sunday and it has turned out to be today. Watterson explains in The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book, “This is how I remember Summer. When this strip captures real moments without making them saccharine, it is truly gratifying.”

Hobbes in today’s strip is largely based on Bill Watterson’s brother Tom. This is shown by the early panels in which we see Calvin and Hobbes getting out of bed together, having breakfast and reading the same comic together and going out of the house together as well as the final panel with them back in bed.

This one reminds me of my summer vacations with my brother and his friends. We only went in to eat and to tell our parents where we were going. Then had to come in when the street lights came on. Aah, memories of freedom in the late 60’s early 70’s.

The scientists are wrong about summer days being longer. The classroom days are the longest ones.

If they be looking at the moon, it’s an old crescent and would be before dawn.

Took a lot of work to draw this one.

I wonder if the fight was over the swim trunk incident…

Hobbe’s fuzzy tail when they see a snake, Priceless!

Enjoy them kid. They get even shorter when you get older.

I remember summer days like that, quite happily, even if they are in the distant past. Remember running everywhere (who walked?) just because it felt so good?

Half the kids I know spend summer days inside playing video games. Not to be crotchety, but it’s hard to imagine they’ll have lovely memories of that someday.

Ahh, those were the days. Now i can only manage one of those things a day … and that one is the tenth panel!

Excellent example of the joys of a really fun day for Cal – or any kid. I never did all that at once but I remember days that came close.

It was wonderful to revisit this joyful day that Calvin and Hobbes had.

Those were the days.

So true!

It is already August and I am still not quite sure what happened to June and July :-))

A long time ago, in the chow hall, we used to take a glass and fill it with a squirt of every option on the soda machine. We called it a “suicide”. It wasn’t bad and it tasted a little bit different every time.

At least he’s playing outside, not staying inside being part of this Gen-Z bed-rot culture.

Another day in the White House

“There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.”

I guess Calvin never heard the song by Howard Jones that said don’t live your life in one day.

Fireflies! I have only a vague memory of seeing them – I must have been 3-4 years old. Last week my wife told me there are lightning bugs around Lake Mary, just southeast of Flagstaff! On the west side of town, the Museum of Northern Arizona reports firefly sightings in summer. I missed the season but we will have to keep alert next summer.

I miss those days of summer when you were young and the world seemed so much fun

@BE THIS GUY- Do you REALLY want to find out??

I love the little detail that Calvin put swimming trunks on Hobbes when they went swimming, even though as a tiger he doesn’t need them.

But you had a wonderful day outside, Calvin. I remember when kids did those things.

Wasn’t the nickname “Painless” a dentist in the original M*A*S*H Movie?

❤️

Beautiful comic today..touches the heart!

When you play that hard, you also have to allocate some time for a nap. :)

When I was a kid, my parents got two Boston papers, the thick thick thick ones. Two sports sections, two comic strip sections. Ain’t America great!

Now the kids would be sitting outside staring at their phones. If you could get them outside that is. . . .

what a great day

maybe Calvin should spend more time doing homework, just a thought. he’ll end up a failure in life!

Those were the days.

Nineteen panels. A full amazing summer day in nineteen panels. Watterson is a master craft.

Definitely one of their best “summer day” strips. It just shows how time flies when you’re having fun!

Maybe your itinerary is a bit too big, Calvin.

I remember when I used to enjoy summer.

It will be sad when Calvin outgrows Hobbes. We all know Hobbes is going to end up in the attic. I just hope Calvin takes him on his life journeys if only in the attic. Gone, but not forgotten…

Ah, those were the days. So much nothing to do……

Oh, to be a kid again!

One of my all time favorites!

I love when Watterson draws mean tiger eyes as in panel nine.

I wonder if anyone has ever bought his suicide drink, and then for the fun of it, grabbed their throat, make some coughing noises, and then fall over? I mean, I’d do it….hehehe

Looks like a day well spent to me!

Calvin wore me out.

Might as well be telling my story at that age. The days were really just too short for all the adventures we had in mind…I don’t even remember having any meals…

In terms of artwork, I would call today’s strip a masterpiece. I don’t know what other single word to use.

Funny, it seems like the same thing happens when we retire.

Psychosis has its upside.