: by Bill Watterson ze Seca by Garry TrudeauForeword here are few wellsprings of humor more consistently reliable than the mind of a child. Most cartoonists, being childlike, recognize this, but when they set out to capture the hurly-burly of the very young, they almost always cheat, shamelessly creating not recognizable children, but highly annoying, wisecracking, miniature adults. Chalk it up to either indolence or defective recall, but most people who write comic dialogue for minors (up to and including the perpetrators of the Cosby “kids”) demonstrate surprisingly little feel for—or faith in— the original source material, that is, childhood, in all its unfettered and winsome glory. It is in this respect that Bill Watterson has proved as unusual as his feckless creations, Calvin and Hobbes. Watterson is the reporter who’s gotten it right; childhood as it actually is, with its constantly shifting frames of reference. Anyone who’s done time with a small child knows that reality can be highly situational. The utterance which an adult knows to be a “lie” may well reflect a child’s deepest conviction, at least at the moment it pops out. Fantasy is so accessible, and it is joined with such force and frequency, that resentful parents like Calvin’s assume they are being manipulated, when the truth is far morefrightening: they don’t even exist. The child is both king and keeper of this realm, and he can be very choosey about the company he keeps. Of course, this exclusivity only provokes many grown-ups into trying to regain the serendipity of youth for themselves, to, in effect, retrieve the irretrievable. A desperate few do things that later land them in the Betty Ford Center. The rest of us, more sensibly, read Calvin and Hobbes. — GARRY TRUDEAUBRING IT HOME AND ‘STUFF IT, CALVIN: CANT YOu SEE I'M BUSY?Yoo KNOW YON HATE: SQPETING MMEN THEN Hox TEL HN HAT IT IB,i la ‘a and ° VIN soap G2 Bepe TM MOT TIRE Oy 7:Bo! WIS IS TYR! J Ca Al zTRAGICALY, THIS SERENE METROPOLIS LIES DIRECTLY BENEATH THE HOQWER Dam. ae ‘WERE WE FIND A THRIVING , BRANDWANT WHE SECRET TO THE ATOMIC, NAPALM, (NEVTRALIZERYEAM...THAT THE THINGS WEDS ARE (NEVITABLE SaCalin ~! Hobbes =THERE'S A NEW GIRL IN QUR CLASS.HERE COMES, THAT NEW GIRL, T_HOPE YOU SURFER A PeaTNG BRAINHUCALYIN, MIND IFT T WANE. SOUP TODAY. YOU Do NOT: JOIN YOU'FOR LUNCH?) | | HHAT DOO HAVE? DONT BE (LUKE TO Discusting. } Suck out || WORMNOOP) A SQuiD EXERALL “THe RETINAS SANDWICH,LEAME (T TOAGIRL TO TAKE ALL THE FUN QUT OF SEX DISCRIMINATION,YONBTON, WE HAVE A NEGATE ON THAT:Calyivy © ay Hobbe co ee wna ts vs! HERONS! WATS THAT(MMH_OARLING, DON'T YOu ERE MARRIED ?-LINSTRUCTED HOBGES TO MESSILY DENOUR. ANYONE WHO BRINGS ‘ME IN BEFORE SFM! YOUR STUFFED TIGER 1S, INTHE WASHING MACHINE,DID You WATCH at) TW LAST oy Cans) ‘WHAT DID You Con) aon DID YOu WATCH THE MoE DID.YOU WATCH THE ON TY LAST NIGHT GAME THEN? ey € * as agHELLO, DADE AT AS NO THREE IN THE MORNING. MOY KNOH. WHERE:CANINE wets sun THs NOISE? SOUR SURED TORE GOODNESS CALVIN, (T'S JUST YOUR, STUFFED TIGER!HAD] He worp"tosr" sar WERE LOST J WERE BRE) EVEN IN Gu VOCABULARY! AGAIN. EXPLORERS! e3 ie vet ;Calvi wali Se 2HEY! WHERE'S THE 1) WHERE'S SANTA GOMHA, | STOCKING FOR HOBBES ? SCG OBES Lor. HOBBES HAVE. A STOCKING 2Fe es 3 ee otUH, HOBBES 7. 1 FORGOT TM SORRL HOBBES. I JOGET YOU A’PRESENT DIDNT MEAN To FORGET, BUT HERE'S. A TIGER HUS T DIDNT EVEN. MAKE YOu D. NOT SOHARD, YOU Bis SISSY. YOO SQUEEZE NY TEARS, FoR BEING WY BEST FRIEND.HON LONG DO YOU | | OTH ANY LOCK, HOM WILL, TWINK (TIS TILL NOTICE WERE MISSING BEDTIME? : { BY WEN,1S THIS SOME SORT OF TRICK QUESTION, OR WHAT? CAUIN! WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THE COREE TABLE PY?‘WELL GRIPE ABUT OUR, JOBS, AND THEN ‘MEL ARGUE] WHOSE TURN IT IS TO} VER, MICROWAVE. DINNER,Calvin 4 Hobbes" re x ‘ee Aa [Seeee we | [we £‘ 2 ; L FIND THAT WATCHING ALL THE VERY WRONG CHANNELS.Ty NOt EATING THIS: GREEN STUFF,DAD, Hon COME IN i! ASK A SIMPLE UNE IN THIS HOUSE. QUESTION, AND GET ALL WITH MOM... YOUR TELEVISION PRIVILEGES REVOKED,WHAT CO YOU FIND ATTRACINE. | WELL. T'VE ALWAYS GEN] WITH GREEN EVES. AND WHISKERS | IN WOMEN, HOBBES 7 PARTIAL TO REDHEADS. TURE GREEN EYES SS a Va % 2!‘CALVIN, STOP THAT DISSUSTING DROOLUi Calyin «4 Cc) h ObbES Se SRR aca iHobbE ;ALL RIGHT, CLASS, WHO. WOULD LIKE TO GIVE HIG, CALNIN, BOW Book REPORT FIRST # ‘ABOUT YON?T cannot answer this IESTION, a ‘it is against My Febigions principles. ets =>. eerCABARET THINK WE PLA SAXOPHOME 2 5 & z 4 zA FIERCE, ANP GRD BANDHOBBES, WE DID AT AGAIN | THE(Galvin, Hobbes pH RRSNCALUN, PASS THIS, | NOTE, Calyin you s#inkchead: NOTE TO JESSICA... I ted you not to 8 Susie NS ‘€ a ROK, ey sf 113,THEY CAN'T GIRLS HAVE MORE PROOLE ME! (WHATS THAT DELICATE. HEINIES. TM GIRL!WHAT IF AT_GOES On CUR ACADEMIC FRANSCRUFTS 2 st rena rm caeTHAT'S MY DAD.‘SPIER CAREENS, BUEN CANWOR? [S,HOW'S WORK GOING? ARE YOU BRINGING ME, HI,DAD. 11'S ME, -Ub WOH. PRETTY. DAN HOME ANY PRESENTS LISTEN, T SUPPOSE CALVIN ‘OUT, ISNT IT? YEP... TONIGHT? .. NOP WELL, YOURE WONDERING JUST THOUGHT T'D ASK.DAD, YOUR POLLS TOOK YOUR “OVERALL DAD ‘SEE? RIGHT ABOUT A BIG DINE THIS WEEK. PERFORMANCE® RATING. YESTERDAY YOUR PURITY WAS. ESPECIALLY LOW.THE GIANT SLIMY ocrors COZES ACROSS THI HIS HIDEQUS PRESENCE TERRORIZES THE SLEEPY WATERFRONT COMMUNITY. WITH A SUCKER-COVERED TENTACLE, HE GRABS. AN [UNSUSPECTING TOURIST. | f\ MUFFLED SCREAM LINGERS IN THE SALTY AIRS DID YOu WANT. SOMETHING, CALVIN? —_—————HIS TRAIN GF THOUGHT IS STILL BOARDING. AT THE STATION -MIALADIUSTED ISN'T HE GREAT, FOLKS ? WETS GINE Hid A BIG HAND! ARE SOUR Ml ANTISOCIAL ENENCES:“MY, WHAT BIG TEETH YOUHAVE” ‘SAID LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD. “THE BETTER TO EAT YOU WITH” " HE. WOLE, SANDMOM,CAN THANE SOME MONEY SO HOBBES AND T CAN GOTO A MOVIE? LSDO you BELIEVE OUR, NO, T THINK 'NE CAN DESTINIES ARE CONTROLLED) | BO WHATEVER WE WANT . WITH OUR LIVES.DONO BELIEVE nL LIFE AFTER DEATH?ILD-MANNERED a {Notes INTO A REY CLOSET AND RUNS HIMSELF INTO...- WAKER, CALNIN. 1S] T'M. NOT GOING TO TEER TINE FOR Sal, ANYMORE, Tw?T WINK ITS BEER TO DANGER AND 1 TAKE IT BY Your ACCEPT ANI LIVE To THE FULLEST! SILENCE THAT YOU =LD LIKE TO GET A [MENTING BOUQUET FOR A GIRL T KNOW,YOO SENT ME & ‘MATE-MAIL VALENTINE. AND & CROMMY BUNCH, OF DEAD FLOMteRs!WELL © SURE DIDN'T BUY IT FOR THEMOM, Wil, YOU: DRIVE ME INTO TOWN ?CALNIN, YOURE NOT 7 KONONRERE | f WIM IGHTHING SPEED, SIFF PAIING ATTENTION AGAIN! We R Bours Foe THE Aub Lock, TH \ MAING A DARING i ESCAPEef WANTS THIS? QUST WATER?‘OH YOU STUPID CAR! WHATS WRONG WITH YOU NOW 2/? ef SWEAR! WE. DONT MIND! CALVIN, BE QUIET, (aot LETS BI WANBE SOMEONE: WILL COME‘A_NOUN THAT LOST: ITS AMATEUR STAWS.LEAVE YOUR TIGER IN. t" OM SNELL. AT LEAST LET ME THE CAR, CALVIN. ALONG, OPEN THE WINDOW AND GINE. HIM SOME AIR.WHEN 1 GROW UP T WANT 1 BE A RADICAL TERRORIST. TM GOING TO (INHALE, THIS CAN OF PESTICIDE.§ 5 fi : MERES AIFTH PERIOD" IA etek See SPONSORED TERRORISM Shy, -Be’ az ix 3 3 5WEL, THE HORSE IS STL | / MIS UGHT 1S STIL ON. gor” STANDING. CALVIN MUST | | CALNIN'? ABE YOU AWAKE? Wis P WAVE GONE To BED. RD No A “ ay Vv ye . we te , 4 ¢ iQU SHOULD GET A, ANOOF! WHAT DID You EAT GOOD FUR COAT LIKE: MINE.WANNA, SEE SOMETHING WATCH, YOU PUT BREAD WE|RD IN THIS SLOT AND PUSH DOWN THIS LEVER...THERE, HOW'S THAT THATS GREAT. WITHOUT QUESTION. THIS NEVER CRITICY cok? PERFECT. (SHE FINEST UNRCUT a THAVE EVER RECEINED. =HE CAPTAN. BAS THRAED OFF THE: SEAT BELT SIGN, THANK YON FOR GHOSING SAINTS ET 248 STOP TO STONEY GlWELL, BRE DAD, YOUR, POLS. REAL HIGH THIS: WEEK. IN FACT, WITH ALITTLE. PUSH TODAY, TODAY, YOUR POLITICAL, STOCK GUILD REACH A REDD HIGH. hy, ) h ee WKE TEN, GO HELP: YOUR MoM WITH THE DISHES. -——|THAT MEANS HEBECAISE IF YOU DON'T, TUL PULL THE Deo Down ON THE HOOD AS YOU WHY SHOULD T. PAY You TO Pur MY CAR IN AYTHANKS FOR HELPING WHERE DID YOU EVER ME PUT YP THIS. SWING. FIND THIS GREAT TIRE? CANIN! TYE Z| Sr aT WORK? 8 & A |we THAT CEREAL. IT'S MY NEW FANORITE, “CHOCOLATE. FROSTED EATING >AES Calvin ~ HobbES[TY ot unm ou] [Pe CAN T EAT IT UPSTAIRS CAN LEE | FINSH You WHE T bo my EXCUSED? | SALON. Ke J | R Mec, Sea! “|| [rie[ive pecDeD We SHOULD: ‘BE "COOLER" THAN WE ARE Bot vient besaCalvin ~ HobpESLrpdin Y TM NOT SKK! WHATS THAT? WILL 1T HURT?TM DYING! I HOPE YOuUNE MALPRACTICE M ‘PAID YOUR> eeBy MAIBE HE'S HEARD ABONT AMERICA, AND HE DREANS OF LIVING IN THIS LAND OF FREEDOM AND OPPORTUNITY!~T ALWANS PUT MY DUCKY IN FIRST.TTS DADS. T BURIED 1 HERE LAST WEES {3SPIFE CALIBRATES HIS caw AE YOU SHOGT THAT. ‘BUSTE! READY...AIM,,.WHAT A PECULIAR, T DREAMED TWAS IN DREAM 1 HAD LAST & BIG FIGHT WITH A NIGHT! FEROCIOUS WEASEL!THE WORLD ISN'T TL XNOW, BUT WHY ISN'T ITS NOT FAIRS |( Rais: WT EVER UNFAIR IN. WY FAVOR?ASTUPD FIELD? youve | actunuy, its Wwe, GOT THAT NOW! THINK Big? RICHES! POHER! Jou GUILD HAVE: ANYTHING! TF YOU COD WISH FOR ANYTHING, ‘WHAT WOULD: TRE?WERE FISH! \ARE THE FISH BITING ? ce WOBEES. Ae y|Calvin ot Hobbe a " aTOMMY TOLD A FUNNY STORY AT SCHOOL TODAY. T ALMOST DIED! WELL ACTUALLY THE STORN ITSELF WASNT ~ AT WAS THE WAY WE TOU IT. HE WAS DRINKING MILK AND ‘WHEN HE LAUSHED, TT CAME UP RIS NOSE Fa COACH THINKS. VIOLENCE 1S AEROBIC, casserole! be A i1) OM THE STAIRS, ON THE | OM, HERE IT'S! WALL FIGOR, IN TRE WHO POT in THE, KITCHEN... (TS AST NOT | STUPID CLOSET?” ANNERE 4 Nl §||[DO YOU EVER THINK ABOUT] | YOO MEAN A, TTHINK MOM WAS REFERRING THE END OF THE WORLD NUCLEAR WAR? FOI SHE EVER CATCHES. AS WE KNOW IT? ME LETTING THE AIR QUT ‘OF THE CAR TIRES AGKIN.FEARLESS SPACEMAN SAIPF | | ONCE AGAIN OUR HEROS |] PSST, CAIN! WHAT CLOSES NON THE FLEEING ZARGONS!THE TYRANNOSANRUS- THE TERRIFLING LIZARD 1S THREE STORIES TALL. AMD WYS MOUTHS. FILLED NATH SNCINCH CHISELS OF DEATH!THIS SUINN ASPARAGUS? 7 RELATIONSHIP BETWEE HOR GD SOMETING To BEAU AND HOW HR 4 FUN IT IS. CAN T WATCH THE MOVIE} } DO THANE To ExT Sala fron ate BNE TO TTWERES BN WERZz z= be z S 2 g &mD ‘Wal MEMORY. HOW ALKED INTO THIS ONE: ror 0 4 Calvin «(HobbesSO THE CONTRACTOR, WELL. TT'S ALL PART OF | YOURE NOT SORRY WE, T ASKED FIRST...BESIDES, IT SAYS IT we COST ABOUT] RAISING A CHILD RIGAT? | HAD CALVIN, ARE You? WASNT ALL MY DECISION 4200 TO FIX »/ ~ | ALL TKN IG THAT) T OFFERED To BYSSPACEMAN SPIFF CLOSES | | THE ALIEN, BEING UNNATIRRLY] OUR HERO LOCKS, ONTO IN GN THE ALIEN VESSEL! | | STUD |S BLISSFUL IGNORANT | TARGET AND WARMS UP: OF NTS IMMINENT DOOM! WIS FRAPLRAN BLASTER!} fo Wont avoeR HOLE IN ONE! 3WOH! THREE. NEW YESTERDAN T GOT FINE MAGAZINES FOR ME aul tL TODAN, Sane WoW COME. YOU T WENT TO THE LIBRARY RECEIVE ALL THESE AND FILLED QUT ALL THE MAGAZINES ? ‘SUBSCRIPTION CARDS THAT SND “BLL ME LATER’ Vrs,T LOVE SATURON, WHAT CLAGSIC THIS \S WHAT \DIOTS, EXPLOSINES,, MORNING CARTOONS WOMOR! ENTERTAINMENT 1S. AND FALLING ANNILS ——— ; | AML ABONT. pS vs & ze oYCAIN, THE HUMAN WITH PROPORTIONAL INSERT ME TREN CLIMBS TO THE TOP OF TWE OTHER END. ) pa] <,IN WIS MINUSWULE SIZE, | AT TE GTHER END, TWEN ITS ANOTHER TEN- |] KE SLOWLY LETS THE || MINUTE JOURNEY BACK, GIGANTIC SHEET! AS HE TURNS IT OVER! GEE, THE KS, YT TAKES. CALVIN, THE BEC\T SAYS," JAPANESE “THO BIG RUBBERY MONSTERS cast” SLUG TT OUT OVER MAJORQHROSALN, YOURE HERE! OME. INS Oop, &YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT, THE WE HASNT BEEN ANY LUTTE MONSTER... HMM? | | TROUBLE YOU WUSTHANE WELL SO FAR, NO PROBLEM. | | TO SHOW THESE KIDS WHO'S THE BOSS. MA Rit.THANKS AGAIN FOR BABY ‘SITING, ROSALYN,ond HObbES 4 EE In = calvWHAT A GREAT NIGHT WHERE'S OUR TENT? T - Bae | SHEN HE SAID TO PITCH FO CAMP ONT? THOUGHT THE SCQUTMASTER | - JHE TENT, [ THREW IT ‘SAID TO SE THEM. UP.Tre Best Part ABs || Loox! THESE HIKES 16 SETTING gent ATIGER? TO SEE SO NUCH mas . WILDLIFE: . ” >»WERE SEPARATED FROM, THE TROOP AND MOPELESSIN LOST ! LEFT ALONE IN THE. UNCOMPROMISING ‘WILD TO SURVIVE BY OUR, WITS UNMIDED! ha 4 e HEY, DUMMY! THE SCOUTMASTER SANS TO GRAB YOUR STUAD STUFFED] by TIGER AND GET YOUR REAR IN GEAR! tna iHERE WEE BEEN LYRGING THIS DUMB MICROMINE AROUND hs % © GRAB THE HOTDOGS THE TROOPS. COOKING, OA THATS JUST) AND COME ON! DINNER GYER THE FIRE. GREAT.IT LOOKS LIKE SOME BG PEOPLE WANTTHE CROCODILE FLOATS, TO THE TOP OF THE MURKY AMAZON, COMPLETELY MOTIONLESS | HE APPEARS TO BE ONLY A HARMLESS LOG A HIPPOPOTAMUS. APPROACHES AND ENSURES {TS INSTANT DEATHS CAIN, WHAT ARE YOU DOING ? ARE YOU AUL RIGHTond LObbE S iN h calvWELL CALVIN, UF YOO WOULONTT] | THERES NO PROBLEM So DRNS THNT TIGER EVERY ANVFUL THAN YO CANT ADD THINGS LIKE THIS WOADNT] | SOME GUILT TO {T AND: HAPPEN.T CANT SLEEP AT ALL SESNIFF #., WHAT DID L 1 EVER BO To DESERVE THIS?Lost: my tiGER, “Hobbes” _———— MAYBE YOU SHOULD DESCRIBE HIM fot] On tHE QUIET side. SomEwhat PECULIR A GOod COMPANION, IM a WEIRG SORE of way, T MEAN, WHAT DOES, HE LOOK LIKE?WELL, NOTHING A LITTLE TES. PART. WITH SOME. OER, STUFFED ANIMALS WOLDS HELP. CMON WELL LOOK. SOMEBODN LEFT Asunrep Ngee OUT IN| THE FIELD. HON STRANGE.HELLO, CAWIN, WOULD: HECK NO. TM TRYING TO, | WELL T THINK MRCAWIN IS Wu LIKE TO JOIN MY FIND MY BEST FRIEND, WHOS | VERY RUDE, DONT YOU, TEA PARTY ? BEEN WDNAPRED BY A MR. TIGER? YES. 1 THINK 006. LEAVE ME ALONE. SQ TRO. MORE TEA,ANYONE? ! Seé & MW $ x= 4 IN calvSUSIE, WANNA HEAR, L THINK THE PRINCIPAL | HE'S TRYING TO CORRUPT CUR] A SECRET? IS A SPACE ALIEN SPV. YOUNG INNORENT MINDS SO WELL BE UNABLE TD RESIST WHEN HIG PEOPLE INVADE: 'HOBBES, WAAT SHOULD | | WELL, You CAN ALWAYS 6 WE SCRAMBLE, T Do HEN MOE COMES |] WHAT We TIGERS DO UKE MANIACS. To BEAT ME UP WHEN A RHIND CHARGES, FOR THE IN GI CLASS? ofHOBBES, L NEED YouR,, HELP. THAT BULLY MOE KEEPS PUSHING ME «50 T WANT YOu TO. COME TO SCHOOL AND EAT HIM, OK?T'S TOO EARLY TO BEIN | TM NOT EVEN TIRED! I'S THE STWPIDEST THING T BED. 11'S HARD EVEN. LDONT NEED TOBE IN | CAN IMAGINE! T THINK DARK OUT. WHY DOT HAVE] BED! THIS 1S AN QUTRAGE! | MOM AND DAD ARE JUST TO BE IN BED? IT's \ TRYING TO GET RIDOF HE RIDICULOUS. T CAN'T SLEEP AT ALL aN CAN YOU SLEEP, HOBBES?NO RESPONSIBILITIES, AA DIDNT YOU. NO CARES, NO WORRIES | WHAT MORE COULD YOuVERY SATURDAY T GET UP AT Six AND EAT THREE THEN T WATCH CARTOONS TLLNOON, AND TM NCCHERENT. AND HYPERACTIVE THE: REST OF THE DAYRENE We Bee Rao APO SST Ne SIRACE OF Down poe 2! conRENTS A Aine MADISON, RYENVE'S Be PART,ITS AN OUTRAGE, Twa ate NEAR-OLDS, NOTE! HERE TAM, AUS. CITIZEN, WITH NO VOICE IN QUR REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT ! YOURE CONCERNED ABOJT] THE DIRECTION THE COUNTRY 1S HEADED ? NO, T INST WANT A, BIGGER PIECE OFGOOD MENVENS, T THINK T BLEW My FACE KK INSIDE GurrNOW IT'S TOO HOT, NOH IT'S TOO COLD.THE FEARSOME SHARK ‘SENSES DISTRESS. WAVES ABOVE Hi IN THE IM! ME CIRCLES UR, CLOSER AND CIOSER TO THE TERRIFIED VICTIM!HERE, CALVIN, TLL SHOW YO A MAGIC TRICK.TVE NEVER BEEN THis TWAT WAS QUITE A HIGH IN § TREE BEFORE. - CRASH, 'NASN'T TT?TWS 1S THE BEST TIME WHAT'S THAT ® WS WHEN 64) WALK ON TO GO NORMUCKING[NRA | WHAT DID * TELL sonia MISERABLE SHOT You ARE!HURRY UP, CALVIN. OUR WOBRES RESERVATION 1S FOR 7:00. | | THE RESTAURANT 7alvin ond Hobbes. + esNIST STAND STILL AND TRC NOT TO MAGINE THAT AT MIGHT VERY WELL CRAWL, DOWN YOUR SHIRT AND WTO YQUR PANTS! \ nN 2 ea | WE MMAGINED IT. : 4 fy WER wilWEE MEE" THAT WAS GREAT?TYE HAD TROUBLE” First LT WANTED TO. COLLECT BUSS. THEN L WANTED TO. COLLECT STAMPS. WHAT DID 400 DECIDE ON?EVERYBODY T KNOW HAS EINER CABLE TY OR ANCR! THEY CAN WATCH ARNTMING, te, WSK BAT MEP J HAVE TO WATCH DUMB OL SUMNER REPEATS” [_SOTHEN HE GANE ME “OLIVER THHST™ To READ, AND SAID TT MIGAT IDENTIFY, WOW TY.T Gora HELIUM BALLOON, Tm GOING TO STAND ON Pie, W315 LADDER AND LET TE BALLON. CARRY ME UP AND AWAN, NOTHING'S HAPPENING. SEE? THERE GOES THE BALLOON. YOU DIDNT HANG ON.WHEE! WA HAHA! \CALVIN od PObDE sie) |iAND 'NHAT'S NATH THESE FEATHERS 7/YOU SEE, eee Tbe ® WATER BALLGON, AND T_THEREFQRE HAVE OFFENSINE SUPERIORITY, So YOU HAVE TO DO WHAT T SAN, WHAT Doxoy THINK OF THAT? T TWINK TU, TAKE THIS, ‘STICK AND POKE YOUR: BALLOON THAT'S THE TROUBLE WITH WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY, IT BECOMES OBSOLETE SO Quick.THE BIGGEST, UGLIEST, FUZZIEST CATERPILLAR TE, EVER SEEN 1S ABOUT TD CHOMP YOUR BOTTOM! YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR PROBLEM 15? Youve GOT gf | NO APPRECIATION FOR. PHNSICAL HUMOR, THATS ‘WHAT OH MY GOSH, HOBBES!You KNOW WHAT [LIKE ABOUT SUMMER DANS?THIS LOOKS LIKE A WHAT WILL WE DO WATH WELL THATS ONE THING |] YOU DON'T KNON WHAT GREAT PLACE TO. VT AF WE CATCH ONE ? ONE 1S EVIWER, HUH? CATCH A CRAWDAD, WORRY ABOUT:@ RRR . ‘ feTHERE'S A RESTAURANT WAMBURSERS? THAT TM SICK OF HAMBURGERS! COMING UP. WANT TO STOP? et WERE EXTING SOMETHING:cn, WE JUST POLED |] ALL T CAN THINK OF IS || NEXT YEAR [SWEAR DLL GUT OF THE RESTAURANT, , JUST_TAKE A MACATION, CANT YOU WAIT? THINK | | HOYER. DAM, ; . OF SCHETHING ELSE.ENGHT HOURS CRAMMED INA. ‘CAR WITH A HYPERACTIVE, SIK-YEAR-OLD! WHAT AN ORDEAL! THAT TRIP WAS EXCRUCIATING THANK GOUDNESD HERE HERE,AUH! ANOTHER GLORIUS |] THIS (S THE LIFE! A, SUNRISE, AND NOT A, JL NROUND! BRISK SWIM AT DAWN, panes ba OAM. TM, aces LY CAUGHT FISH. Ve Ds ee b EEASe REGAN! WHAT A WACATION?! UGH..IVE SEEN CHEERIER FACES AT THE OFFICE!DAD, LOOK! T CAUGHT WEY, THATS A BiG ONE. TLL kRISH! Mitt! PASS ME ANOTHER OFbax od HOLES 'N calvWOH, LOOK DOWN, THERE | TD THINK THAT'S THE DIM, CNTLINE OF A WHALE! AND THAT MUST] BE A GIANT ‘Vu. BET THIS ISTHE MAST CR AM OLD SPANISH] GALLEON, SUNK MUNDREDS OF YENS BGO, a | TUT oad taFISHING 1S ONE SPORT || T CAN SEE WHY, T REAUNY LIKE, YTS SO CONTEMPLATIVEott TRe ey atFLOWERS SEE, 1S A WELL, WITH THIS WATERING | ‘CAN, T CAM MAKE THEM THINK (T'S RAINING. {TS FON TO MESS WITH THEIR, MINDS.AN UNBEARABLE. STENCH. FILS THe AIR. THE HIDEQUS BUG ZEROES IN. THE EXPERIMENT HAS,“ | HE 7iPs ABOUT IN PARASITIC GONE HOBRIBLY WRONG! |] HUNGER, SEARCUING FOR CALNIN HAS MUTATED. DECAYING FLESH! Z| NTS A GIANT FLY! Ty a = = ( 4 OS “4CMON, CALNIN | SIGNED YOu UP FOR SWIMMING LESSONSTL CANT BELIEVE MW MOM SIGNED ME UP FOR, ‘SWIMMING LESSONS, HERE TAM FREEZING My BUNS OFF AT 9 IN THE, MORNING, ABOUT TO JIMP- INTO (CE MATER AND DROWN, THE ONIN THING THAT COLD POSSIBLY MAKE THIS NORSE WOULD BE IF THE CLASS WAS. TAVGAT BY 7) WELL, LOOK SADSTIC \ WHOS HERE! BABI SITTER!” VEEN emevceme nkOk... EVERNONE IN THE WATER! CALVIN, DOWN KNOW WHAT A*RAT TAIL! 1S? 4S WHEN YOU SOAK A TOWEL) AND TWIST TT UP INI A WHR. IT STINGS LIKE CRAZY AND 4S MUCH INORSE THAN BEING, OUD. GET MY DRT? T ALWAYS THOUGHT LIFE- GUARDS WERE JUST TAVGHT WON TS RESUSCITATE PEOMLE AND THINGS LIKE THAT.T DONT WANT 10 LEARN T_DONT NEED TO KNOW HON. | HAT IF HOM TO Swi! 1 Pa Sco ereMINUTES OF TERROR! FUN, FORTY ‘HN NOT SOMETHING FUN. WHY DID YRU SIGN ME. UP LIKE. HANG GLIDING OR FOR TUS? ‘SHARPSHOSTING ?THRASHING ABOUT 1 A DESPERATE FOR FUEEDOM, HE ON BECOMES | OW NOY HES Guid TW ASPDER WES. LED! SOOM TIME SPIOER| be wd MORE EMTANGLED! SOON TE iS ell SUCK OUT MiG TNARRDS F HELP! IDF na] i > aMLCALVIN, WHAT ARE Jf] BiG IMPORTANT SECRET / an facut, You DUNG F THINGS | SO AWAY DRNDELION, reat? \ost!THAT STUD CAIN. ALT TRY 1 00'S BE WELL, WHO NEEDS JERKS. WES. SO MEAN, FRIENDS, AND HE TREATS | UWE HIM ANYWAME? T DON'T WE UKE I'M NOBODY. NEED HIM FORA FRIEND. 1 CAN HAVE TUN BY MNSELF!SUSIE, HOBBES. THOUGHT THANKS, CANIN, THATS. OK, WELL PLAY HOUSE NO. Tis WS 7 DONT OUTALK RENIN NICE OF YU TULBE WE HGH POWED BEET, WIFE, THE TIGER, WERE CAN GE MYTHE ALIENS ARE GAINING ON OUR HERO! INA ‘SURPRISE MOVE, SPCEMAN SPIFF SHIFTS. INTO REVERSE! ‘THE ALIENS ROKR AHEAD! SPIFF SHIFTS BACK ITD FORHARD, AND PURSKES. TM GETING SICKSTFER INTO A Sen THAT WAS CHU DRNEWAN AND: FALL DOWN A SUBGESTION:Calvin ™ HObbES WATERS, TULGET WIM WITH THE GARDEN, HOSE! NOTHING CAN BEAT A HOSE FOR SHEER, VOLUME OF WATER fLOOK AT THAT THING IN, THE DIRT! IT MUST BE FOSSIL UT ITS NOT A BONE. IT MUST BE SOME PRIMITINE WUNTING WEAPON OR EATING UTENSIL FOR, ‘Cove MEN T WONDER WHAT PECULIAR, ANIMAL THIS WAS THIS EXCLAINS|AMEN Yo DISCOVER, SOMETHING, YOU'RE ALLOWED TO NAME IT AND PUT UP A SIGN. But SUPPOSE YOU DIDNT DISKOVER THAT CREEK OF COURSE 1 Dip) NoRSDY EISE Wh & SIGN THERE, RIGHT =CAN HORBES ANDI GO i y WHAT'S WRONG. RTH THAT ? PLAY IN THE RAIN, HOM? P ‘SOAKED. YOU COND CATCH PNEUMONIA, RUN UPSOELUNKING? THERE ARENT! | YOu DON'T NEED A CAVE, ANY CAVES AROUND HERE!JUST 00-THAT TS NM_ APPRECIATE THE MORE WEEVENDSBUT ITS THE HUMIDITY THAT REALLY GETS TO MECalvi, “+ HobpES 4 VER 60 ON “THREE.” OK? ONE sons TH Qak —~{ GOOD WHATS WRONG | THIS FACE, IT WILL FREEZE YO) REALLY THINK SO?DONT MAKE FACES. AT THE MOM SAID MM FACE WOULD FREEZE. LIKE THIS SOME PAN, AND IT JUST DID, | WAS RIGHT. TM HORRIBLY DISFGURE} BUT DONT WORRY, T WONT SPOIL DINNER. SEET ELEPHANT MAN!TNE GOT THE MOST BORING DAD IN THE WORLD.WE CAN COLECT SHES / WELL SO FAR, THIS HAS. THE EEN A Maing Tht“Most people who write comic dialogue for minors demonstrate surprisingly little feel for—or faith in—the original source maierial, that is, childhood, in all its unfettered and winsome glory. It is in this respect that Bill Waiterson has proved as unusual as his feckless creations, Calvin and Hobbes. Watterson is the reporter who’s gotten it right; childhood as it actually is.” — Garry Trudeau, from the Foreword ISBN: 0-8362.2088 9 $6.95