Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 10, 2024

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    codycab  3 months ago

    And it looks like nobody consulting Calvin is going to stay that way.

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    Sugar Bombs 95  3 months ago

    Calvin vegan confirmed?

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    SHIVA  3 months ago

    He sounds like Trump in panel 3.

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    hariseldon59  3 months ago

    There were fewer people to begin with.

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    snsurone76  3 months ago

    How about using your Time Machine to travel back to the Garden of Eden—pre-serpent?

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    jvo  3 months ago

    Kids have more wisdom and foresight than most adults credit them with. They cut through the distractions to get to the point on issues.We should listen to them

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    Robert4170  3 months ago

    Calvin is an ignoramus (and by implication, Watterson). There WERE fewer people to begin with. The population grew as a result of people generating sufficient food and wealth to support a greater population. We are wealthier than ever. And before anyone says “how dare you value wealth”, I sure don’t see anyone giving up any wealth “for the sake of the planet”. Also, wealthier people have fewer kids. As for “even distribution of resources”, Hong Kong was nothing but a ROCK, and it became enormously wealthy. Conversely, Africa has HUGE resources, and it’s mired in poverty. So much for that excuse.

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    ImDaRealAni  3 months ago

    Is Calvin advocating for human rationing there?

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    BigDaveGlass  3 months ago

    Hobbe’s tail cracks me up for some reason……..

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    Kimmies01  3 months ago

    Really makes you think, doesn’t it?

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    Purple People Eater  3 months ago

    There were fewer people to begin with, but more animals. An increase in one seems to go with a decrease in the other.

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    Calvinist1966  3 months ago

    Today’s strip, like yesterday’s, shows that Calvin is very knowing in some ways. As has been said many times, he would do very well in school but he lacks interest and motivation.

    One of my favourite books about animated cartoons is Masters of Animation by John Grant which I have mentioned on this site before. In the chapter on the great Chuck Jones, John shows that Chuck had a similar problem in his relationship between high intelligence and schooling that Calvin has:-

    “Oddly for such a highly literate and intelligent child, Jones dropped out of high school – seemingly just because he found it boring – continuing his formal studies at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles.”

    Some readers have noted similarities between Calvin and Ralph Phillips – the day dreaming boy who appears in some Chuck Jones cartoons notably the Oscar-nominated From A to Zzzzzz. Ralph reappeared in another commercial cartoon and then in two army recruitment cartoons – one of which shows him as an adult. He also appeared in a compilation cartoon called Adventures of the Roadrunner which mixed new Ralph Phillips footage with classic Roadrunner footage and footage from From A to Zzzzzz.

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    ddl297  3 months ago

    Another wise cartoonist had two characters discussing why there are starving people, when we have the capability of feeding everyone. “No money in it.”

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    oldspacehound  3 months ago

    no politics here please.

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    diverbelle  3 months ago

    Can you imagine the furor that would erupt if Walt Kelly were still alive and producing “POGO”?

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    rockyridge1977  3 months ago

    Calvin the phi·los·o·pher???

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    Free or Not? Premium Member 3 months ago

    The free market…not the corporatist crony the TRUE free market id the best way to equitably and justly diatribute reaources. Collectivist systens (socialiam and fascism) ALWAYS enrich ansld empower the elite at the expense of all the others.

    As for treating each other well, that comes from Christ and the true golden rule (not the Walz version). Collectivist systems (as pushed by dems) always reject Christianity. Christianity promotes charity and justice.

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    mfrasca  3 months ago

    Calvin is waiting for the post-scarcity anarcho-communism.

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    sandpiper  3 months ago

    That’s Cal – the undiscovered genius.

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    mindjob  3 months ago

    Too late. Now it’s time for plan B. Soylent green

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    mountainclimber  3 months ago

    “Too many people making too many problems” (Phil Collins and Genesis)

    “Too many reaching for a piece of cake

    Too many people pulled and pushed around

    Too many waiting for that lucky break" (Paul & Linda McCartney)

    Yes!

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    chuckcork1  3 months ago

    “If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what the heck was wrong with it.

    When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes."

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    ajr58(1)  3 months ago

    Thanos was right.

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    The Wolf In Your Midst  3 months ago

    Once upon a time, all life on the world was single-celled organisms managing to survive on hydrothermal vents. Then one of them consumed another, and it was all downhill from there.

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    djtenltd  3 months ago

    CALVIN FOR PRESIDENT WITH HOBBS, AS THE VP!! LOL!!!

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    KEA  3 months ago

    almost everything that lives depends on other life for sustenance. Just the way life works.

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    Skeptical Meg  3 months ago

    Hand this cartoon to anyone who says “intelligent design.”

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    kaystari Premium Member 3 months ago

    Actually, the world was designed that way. Man was not given permission to eat animals until Genesis 9:3, and it was basically a concession, not permission. Basically, if man did not need to eat animals, he would have done it anyway. The drinking of blood was a ceremony of pagans to get the animals power and life into themselves. The eating and drinking of other humans the same thing. Disgusting and brutal, and that is what we do when we seperate ourselves from our Creator. The concession was to minimize our passions and desires. But the Israelites were commanded not to drink the blood like the pagans.

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    alohaotis  3 months ago

    Why or why do people have to start with the political comments? Why? This is a COMIC section, please try and leave it at that. I read it to escape from all this BS !

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    John Jorgensen  3 months ago

    Fewer people and animals would not mean organisms didn’t need to eat each other to survive. Maybe if there were no people or animals at all, and every life-form could photosynthesize.

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    Laurie Stoker Premium Member 3 months ago

    It scares me how much I agree with Calvin on this subject!

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    tinstar  3 months ago

    It is, indeed, a sad testimony to the human mindset, that so many cannot leave their political rantings, ravings, and rhetoric at the door, when reading a comic that has absolutely nothing to do WITH politics. The cartoonist did NOT “open the door,” with his commentary. People seem to interpret even the most innocuous, and innocent comic to reflect their own views.It’s a sad life, indeed, when this is the only thing their lives seem to revolve around.

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    Blue soup  3 months ago

    " there should be fewer people"!! I think some twisted cults rhetorics reached poor Calvin mind.

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    hagarthehorrible  3 months ago

    This strip rocks. Love the high level talk in air borne vehicle. Hobbes keeps the whole episode grounded.

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    Strawberry King  3 months ago

    Ah, the wit of this comic strip. :)

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    MoeyTehr  3 months ago

    Proof that God doesn’t exist.

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