Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 01, 2010

Monsters love that story!

Monsters are always under the bed. It is when they are in the bed that you begin looking for a good divorce attorney.

cleokaya! You scare me!

How about chucking a certain tiger under there to look? He can take care of himself, he has teeth and claws.

It’s a good thing he has Hobbes. If he didn’t, he wouldn’t be worried, he’d be terrified.

I guess there are times when an imagination like his could be a problem.

You don’t “chuck” tigers… You ask them politely.

Come on Calvin…take a peek…just a little teeny one.

Calvin, hiding your head under the pillow works for me

Monsters are ALWAYS under your bed………..

I’m sure Hobbes can take a look, after all, he is a big, brave tiger.

One of Calvin’s rare “serious” moments.

Spread Jello on the floor. It worked for Bill Cosby.

arent tigers the best hunters in the night? poor Hobbes has lost all his instincts!!

I’m stronger than the monster beneath your bed, Smarter than the tricks played on your heart, We’ll look at them together then we’ll take them apart, Adding up the total of a love that’s true, Multiply life by the power of two.

(Indigo Girls: “Power of Two”)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj0yVN8pFNw

“hush little baby dont say a word and never mind that noise you heard its just the beasts under your bed in your closet, in your head!”

(metallica enter sandman)

no monsters under my bed…….beer cans but no monsters.

Ready for a wierd one. My three year old granddaughter said she can’t go poop on the little potty at my house because there’s monsters in there. Evidently they don’t come out for pee because that’s ok. So look out for the “poop monsters” everyone!

It’s not the monsters under my bed so much as the demons attacking my mind. Thank God for bourbon. It’s the only way to make them leave you alone.

cleokaya said:

“Monsters are always under the bed. It is when they are in the bed that you begin looking for a good divorce attorney.”

Sounds like a voice of experience….

Cleokays has it right. nuff said on my part.

Laughing monsters are the worst kind!

Carmy–LAUGHING monsters UNDER the bed are the worst kind! :^)

Jrbj–That bourbon could assist with the dilema Cleokaya has mentioned!

Well calvin, what do you expect? yes? No? Definitely yes.

This is why I keep lots of stuff under my bed, no room for monsters. I suppose I could try a night light.

I am always looking for snakes near the toilet, even though I’ve never seen one in the house. Thank gosh, we don’t have poisonous snakes.

Lonewolf, That bourbon could be the cause of dilemas like Cleokaya’s

Too bad Calvin doesn’t have a pet dog. It could sniff out the monster for him since Hobbes seems to be too afraid.

Calvin will not attempt to “chuck certain tiger under the bed”, as ejcapulet suggested. In other strip, Calvin has said “I keep forgetting his five ends are full of pointy things”

My kids used to be afraid of monsters when they were younger. we would have to do a room search before bed and they slept with flashlights. they got past it with the help of scooby doo. they got from scooby that there were no monsters, they were just people in masks. they were both fine once they got into scooby. fortunately they got interested in scooby about the same time they got scared of monsters. THANK YOU SCOOBY.

monsters with a sense of humor, must be Richard Scarry types then

Rose is Rose has a recurrring ‘bathtub drain monster’ character.

Monsters “take it all in”. That’s why they laugh.

I thought that was an echo of my laughing! Now I’m scared

Pat says to Mike, Did you ever resolve that grudge between you and your neighbor?” Mike says, “There’s no grudge between us. There’s only a carport.”

What does that have to de with monsters under the bed? Nothing. Nothing at all.

Aardvark359, Have you seen The Wizard of Id today? Are you incensed or exhilarated with the notoriety? Would a drooling aardvark under Calvin’s bed qualify as a monster? I’m just kidding, seriously! Actually, someone who had a house infested with termites might like to have an ‘available’ aardvark. I don’t think it comes as an option when you buy a new car, though.

Dino-1 said, about 3 hours ago:

Ready for a wierd one. My three year old granddaughter…

Many years ago a cousin of mine kept telling my aunt there was a monster in his bedroom. So she took a broom and went into his room and started whacking the bed and under the bed in the closet screaming to get out of here and stay out! Well… As it turned out the scary thing turned out to be someone/thing we all have heard about during Sunday School. Yeppers, it was God and all that talk about how he’s always there and see you but you can’t see him was where he stopped listening. So to this day we still talk about the night Aunt Judy exercised God from under the bed… The moral of this story is to always make sure that part about how much God Loves us leaves a bigger impression then the part about not being able to see Him.

I am happy to say that I have no fear of monsters. Never have. I feel very sad for children who live in fear of their own imaginations. Large segments of the population fill their children’s heads with nonsense so that they live in constant fear for most of their lives. No wonder there are so many psychopaths roaming around.

(and aardvarks never drool.)

I laughed at Calvin’s plight. I feel like a monster.

The monsters under your bed don’t eat little kids…They eat stinky old socks. The Bump in the Night cartoon from ABC (before Disney took it over) had Mr Bumpy who was the monster under the bed and he only eats stinky socks. xD Nothing for Calvin to fear….unless he’s wearing stinky socks!!!!

Hey, everyone!

Brand new interview with Watterson, the first since ‘89!!!

http://www.cleveland.com/living/index.ssf/2010/02/billwattersoncreator_of_belo.html

“Yukoner said, about 9 hours ago

Spread Jello on the floor. It worked for Bill Cosby”

That only worked for snakes. And, they still were allowed a snakey lick.

@bandz, And a few people say my puns are bad! But I don’t begrudge anyone the right to say so, nor do I hold a grudge. I just ‘sweep it under the carport’.

Are dust bunnies able to laugh?

@fredbuhl, Maybe dust bunnies laugh at ‘dirty’ jokes!

aardvark359 said, “(and aardvarks don’t drool.)” I appreciate your not trying to kill the messenger!

@Marty241

Bill Cosby spread jello for the Chicken-Heart.

MrGrommit thanks very much for the link. I don’t think Mr. Waterson appreciates, how much we all think of his characters, art and storylines. Sure wish he’d do a new strip. Now that he’s a grown’d up. Be interesting to see what his take is on aging Boomers…..

Many monsters under the bed!

I wish i knew what thet looked like

Don’t look now but there are two little monsters IN the bed, too!

I think he need to check also if something down there is drooling–wasn’t that in the title of one of his C&H collections?

That Cleveland newspaper article was about the artist, not BY him, or did I not read it right? Was interesting, though, I didn’t realize Calvin had only been with us for 10 years. You get to see the first comic on that site listed by McGromit.

If they laugh, it’s because their mind isn’t on food at the moment. That’s how you know you’re safe for now.

Watterson WAS the artist. I think you clicked on the link in the fist paragraph and read the other part instead of the interview, Mythreesons.

MrGromit, Thanks. That’s exactly, all he said back then too, except that the Editors were desroying the one thing he really loved, which was the Sunday strip format, and when they made it even smaller, he didn’t want to do it anymore.

At least we know he is well. What I never knew was that Dad looks just like Bill. Now I may have to go easier on Dad.

NAH!

Courtesy of MrGromit, earlier today, here’s a link to both parts of the story.

Click each link: Interview

Additional story

I Laughed.

Thanks, mrslukeskywalker, for refreshing the links (there was an earlier glitch). Good to hear from Bill Watterson once again.

Some other intersting things there including newspaper samples of some of Bill’s PRE-Calvin artwork. Fascinating guy.

And sometimes that’s the only way you can tell if there are monsters under the bed…

Teresa: Well said! I’ll try that one with my granddaughter. Hey maybe it’ll work on the “potty monster” too!

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear - From Frank Herbert’s Dune Series

I was always afraid of Tigers under the bed. Interesting that Watterson also said something to the effect that he didn’t want the strip to get stale and for folks to beat him up because it wasn’t always new & fresh anymore – kinda like what happens in the “comments” section for Cathy Guisewite in “Cathy” & Lynn Johnson in “For Better or For Worse.” Guess he was right – unfortunately.

I think i already said this, but I’ve always got monsters under my bed…. they’re called ‘dust bunnies’

good plan!! lol

Typical Calvin and hobbes