Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 15, 2010

No he cannot.

**Good morning Marg! Good morning Fran and Kizzzy! Good Morning L’Wolf! Good Morning Grog!**

I love the art in this one!!!!!

Calvin finds that to be impossible…

He never could sit still for a picture-taking.

Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠

1/500 of a second is an eternity for Calvin!

This is obsolete in this age of digital photos

Frankr, Calvin still wouldn’t sit or stand still long enough for a good photo.

What an active imagination, I love it.

Actually, I believe Dad is shooting good old Kodacolor: snapshot film of the 70’s. Calvin’s colors are a color negative palette complete with orange mask. we old fart photographers are good for something! Kinda.

He cannot!

If Dad really is using the more expensive Kodachrome slide film he is being a total fool because he should know by now that he is never going to be getting a good enough shot to make slides from. Snapshots, he just might get lucky enough to pull off, except that Calvin has to be unaware of the picture taking activity.

Holy cow, this is so hard to read… Higher scan resolutions please!

baslimthebegger: That’s one of my favorite songs! I’ll be singing it all day now! I always feel sorry for the photographer’s at the “Sears Portrait’s Studio” in the mall. They have to deal with that kind of thing all day!

My Coloring Book - Kitty Kallen (1963)

A Whiter Shade of Pale - NOT!

Love Dad’s precise usage of the time Calvin should look pleasant.

Imagine what Calvin would do with digital shots. His world would somehow pixilate.

Hope he’s not using Kodachrome. The last processor in the world shut down a while back.

Looks like someone should adjust the hue and tint.

Would 400 speed film help?

Better make that 1000 speed!

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This happened in the old days before digital cameras. May be the only part of the reruns that are dated. But still funny. How about a write-once-only memory chip in the camera?

Calvin still believes in the primitive tribal theory that having your picture taken steals your soul.

And this is the kid that flunks things?

Spam! Who ever still believes, that someone clicks on these links?

It’s not really inverted. I inverted this cartoon, and it looks even more strange…

Nice sunday to everybody!

No Calvin cannot. Neither could my son and daughter. I used to count 1..2..3 and click on 2 ! That gets them some times

spammerflaggen!

If you’re on a Mac, control+option+command+8 is fun.

Calvin at his best again!

G’Morning, Mike, Grog Marg & Fran!

Calvin and Hobbes has to be the best comic strip ever. I wish Watterson would come back and do it again.

I agree Frankr. Because I believe you are refering to the Negative effect here and not about shutter speed, blurring, light, etc. But how about a photon or so many bytes of memory.

I agree with mikislate. I have always wondered if we could get Watterson to skip forward and see how calvin handles puberty and his teen years. He would be great in high school I would bet?

Dino you mentioned photo studios at Sears, you should also mentioned portrait photo’s for business takes pictures at all schools. Having to take pictures of thousands of faces all the time. Kids all restless. Now adays kids don’t dress up for pictures. My own mom at 85 doesn’t like her picture taken but my brother-in-law is full of it and more she hollers and protests makes him happier and gives her a hard time and takes her picture when she leasts expects it.

I did a zoom in on strip still very hard to read.

Calvin reminds me of THE KING in todays WIZARD OF ID

:-}

Horrible resolution to read :(

jrcarter53 - Check out Zits, I swear he is a teenage Calvin. I wish gocomics would carry it so I don’t have to go to other sites.

Great one Mr. W. remember it fondly. Still have a Flash camera with :►() real roll film!

Dad should know by now…kids (& animals) are a photographer’s nightmare…

bleepingdeadalien:

That’s also the reason why actors say they don’t like performing with kids and animals … their hard-to-predict antics are always upstaging them!

@Mikislate: I totally agree!!! BW is a wildly, genius-struck kinda guy!!

Sitting here reading today’s strip while listening to “Strawberry Fields Forever”!! Starting to have flashbacks!!

RichardSRussell:

This reminded me of one of my all-time favorites about photography:

http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/09/19/

jrcarter53, the teenager Jeremy in Zits is a pretty good representation of what Calvin could grow up to be.

Wow, what a colorful sense of humor Watterson ever-so-cleverly displayed…

Come on if you had grandchildren or great grandkids you dont get good shots if they know your coming. You got to catch them by surprise for the real good pics.

Calvin can make the most trivial occasion into a huge adventure! rotfl!

Kids read? Only if it is emailed, texted, or Facebooked. Kids interested in comics? Only if there is blood and carnage.

gofinsc, not Petey Potterloop of Cul de Sac

Just for the fun of it, I took this strip and used the Negative Image feature of Paint Shop Pro 7 (I have 10X, but I’m still used to the legacy program) on it.

Unless some standard or definition is being used that the program doesn’t, Calvin and his context are not in fact in opposite colors from what they should be.

Bear in mind, my knowledge of photography and of color theory are both entirely rule-of-thumb.

And yes, “rule-of-thumb” sometimes includes “as a rule, my thumb gets in the way of the lens”. :))

Jeremy seems too laid back (IMO) to be a future Calvin. Frazz is more active, although even he doesn’t seem too hyper.

@jrcarter53 NO! That would totally ruin at least my vision of Calvin and Hobbes. If Calvin grew up like in For Better or For Worse, then it would be as bad a strip as FBorFW. He might even mature…enough to stand still! Which makes this strip hilarious.

I have loved Calvin and Hobbes since I was about 12 (I am 25) and I prefer film to digital photography!! But unfortunately my film camera broke and can’t get another one :(

I followed the link from about 10 comments up (a 1993 Sunday cartoon about color photography) and it makes me realize how outrageous Dad can be. Calvin gets his imagination and freaky sense of humor legitimately!

But this color-negative view of the world (especially as a convenient escape from having to pose) is a hoot. If it really were Kodachrome (slides) instead of Kodacolor (negatives), however, the colors would stay true instead of being reversed.

Digital cameras can do some wild things without having to reverse color, though. Just “grayscale,” judiciously applied, could produce some pretty thought-provoking results … if the imagination is operative, at least.

sicko..:p

Looks like Calvin stumbled upon Cool World.