Calvin and Hobbes Writing Assignments - by Bill Watterson for February 11, 1993

ROFLOL! Hysterical!

He hit the nail on the head

The problem comes when you find someone that can do that better than you. Since they can as well they are able to see how it’s all wrong and disprove you with their own version that looks just as bad.

I think I first saw this one in writing class actually…I hate writing, but that teacher was awesome :)

Dick and Jane were before my time, but several picture books featuring that “writing” style were presented to me in first grade, and duly rejected. I had to read and reread a book about tomatoes during silent reading time.

And the award for most large words that few funnies readers can make sense of in a single strip goes to…

omg pretty much all no avatars

He’s a natural.

Author “Raster0fMandomness” has created an iToons based off of this strip: https://www.mezzacotta.net/itoons/?comic=12

I love that unlike many ‘underachiever’ characters, Calvin is actually really smart. He uses words most adults don’t know, he can remember facts that interest him, and such as here, he shows off how smart he can really be. But then he’s marked off as a ‘bad student,’ because his learning style just goes against the school system, and he acts out as a result. I’d also bet money that he has some form of ADHD.

“And everyone will say

As you walk your mystic way -

’If this young man expresses himself in terms too deep for me,

Why what a most particularly deep young man this deep young man must be!’" – WS Gilbert.