Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 31, 2024

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    codycab  7 months ago

    Good old fireplace!

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    GreasyOldTam  7 months ago

    Calvin, there’s rather a lot more to life than that, but, trust me, nothing comes close to matching it.

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    Hello Everyone  7 months ago

    Hobbes warming his butt by the fireplace is just too funny! It reminds me of my Kitty.

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    snsurone76  7 months ago

    Why isn’t there a screen in front of the hearth to catch live embers? Very careless of Mom and Dad, unless…

    Is their homeowners’ insurance up to date?

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    BE THIS GUY  7 months ago

    A pleasure I have not experienced

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    cracker65  7 months ago

    I’ve stood in front of a lot of fireplaces growing up.

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    Cocoa, untarnished by marshmallows

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    Blu Bunny  7 months ago

    3rd small panel, I thought at first they were having a gas buildup in them

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    einarbt  7 months ago

    Snow out side and then sit by the fire drinking hot chocolate.

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    PoodleGroomer  7 months ago

    I smell a shirt getting ironed.

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    Jayalexander  7 months ago

    Had the same experience Ice fishing in Michigan. those little shanty heaters can make your clothes pretty toasty.

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    saylorgirl  7 months ago

    I’ve been blessed with a fireplace growing up and now. Nothing like a fire in the snowy winter.

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    BigDaveGlass  7 months ago

    Ah, good times…….

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    Cpeckbourlioux  7 months ago

    And don’t wanna know what it is.

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    Calvinist1966  7 months ago

    I have just been looking at a site called “All the Hobbes and Bacon strips I can find”. This includes the original “Hobbes and Bacon” strips from 2011 and many other strips which are fanfiction of fanfiction. The last three strips show that Bacon has a babysitter called Robin and that Bacon and Robin have a very similar relationship to that which Calvin and Rosalyn used to have.

    Hobbes: That explains why your Mom put a padlock on the powertool shed.

    Bacon: Rats! There goes seventy per cent of our arsenal!

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    Egrayjames  7 months ago

    I can sit for hours starting into a wood fire……and I do! My wood stove in my garage stays lit from early November into April. I leave the stove door open most of time so I can enjoy seeing the flames as well as feeling the heat. I get great enjoyment from the four cord of wood I burn every season.

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    gantech  7 months ago

    Well said, Mr. Watterson, well said.

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    sandpiper  7 months ago

    Great arc today. Lots of laughs for Easter Day at 0700

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    Link from Twilight Princess (He/Him)  7 months ago

    One of My favorite strips ever. As someone who has a fireplace I can relate.

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    [Traveler] Premium Member 7 months ago

    Visit a Cracker Barrel to experience this if you don’t have a fireplace

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    KageKat  7 months ago

    I’m reminded of many a chilly holiday at my nana’s house doing just this!

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    Count Olaf Premium Member 7 months ago

    Now days that would be one of those Duraflame looks that looks like a burning loaf of bread and fills the house with toxic smoke as they die out causing uncontrollable coughing spasms and burning, watery eyes. Told to The Count by a friend.

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    French Persons Premium Member 7 months ago

    I absolutely love this.

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    uniquename  7 months ago

    Even mom is smiling.

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    Just-me  7 months ago

    The simple pleasures are the best.

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    goboboyd  7 months ago

    Yet.

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    mindjob  7 months ago

    Our new fireplace has no grate. You put the wood directly on the bottom and when it gets hot enough, a fan turns on and spreads the heat through the house

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    The-Great-Gildersleeve  7 months ago

    shameful hedonists! Yes there is more to life …… like chopping wood for your fire and shoveling snow ……..Your Dad can’t wait till your old enough for chores

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    mckeonfuneralhomebx  7 months ago

    Wait till you trade in Hobbes for Susie..

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    royq27  7 months ago

    Looks good to me!

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    bittenbyknittin  7 months ago

    My dog Clio likes to lay in the hot sun, then come inside and flop onto the cool kitchen floor.

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    bhcaruso  7 months ago

    Were there replacement panels not quite covering the bottom row? I expected to see them run outside to the snow to get the steam effect. Or perhaps it was a glitch in the algorithm for placing the daily panels. How I miss Watterson.

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    tremaine53  7 months ago

    I remember this too. I wasn’t accompanied by Calvin and Hobbes, though…

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    ladykat  7 months ago

    Good point, Calvin!

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    BiggerNate91  7 months ago

    It’s the simplest things

    Nothin much to it

    All you got to do

    Is doodly-do it

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    walkingmancomics  7 months ago

    comic books, Calvin, comic books

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    g04922  7 months ago

    Yes… getting close to that time of year you do the final deep cleaning of the fireplace in getting ready for the warmer months.

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    mistercatworks  7 months ago

    Well, … collecting the wood … building the fire … heating the cocoa …

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    wiley207  7 months ago

    The ol’ cartoon “burn your butt standing too close to the fireplace” bit! I wonder what Calvin’s saying in the seventh panel?

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    Mediatech  7 months ago

    There is, but Calvin won’t realize it until he’s about 10 or 12.

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    kathleenhicks62  7 months ago

    Correct for once! Today needs a fire!

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    wnbresn  7 months ago

    As a kid back in the 60’s, we used our fireplace to help heat the house in winter. My parents would sometimes get those color logs which burn in different colors. We would learn later that they really can foul up your chimney. One night we got a call from the neighbors that flames were shooting out of our chimney. It turned out to be gunk from a few color logs burning in the chimney. We got the chimney cleaned soon after.

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    eced52  7 months ago

    Better watch that tail Hobbes.

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    PaulGoes  7 months ago

    Hot chocolate

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    Arghhgarrr Premium Member 7 months ago

    Things going from hot to cold, and back again? Yeah that pretty much sums up existence.

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    CuylerDae  7 months ago

    My elderly grandmother would lift her skirts, and trap the heat beneath them. I’ve found it works, lol.

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    Humerus1  7 months ago

    I do this all the time :)

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