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Something Under The Bed Is Drooling p5

Essential p136

Complete p141

8/18: Hobbes: "Add two eggs and stir." Calvin: Right. Hobbes: The recipe says it makes twenty pancakes, so we'll each get ten. Calvin: Nah, that's too much trouble. We'll just make one big pancake and cut it in half.

8/19: Calvin: Dad, I want a bedtime story! Dad: I'm busy, Calvin. I'll read you one tomorrow. Calvin: If you don't read me a story, I won't go to bed! Dad: Once upon a time, there was a boy named Calvin, who always wanted things his way. One day his dad got sick of it and locked him in the basement for the rest of his life. Everyone else lived happily ever after. The end. Calvin: I don't like these stories with morals.

8/20: Mom: Dinner's ready, Calvin. Come to the table. Calvin: I'm watching television. Mom: No, you're not! Calvin: Yes, I am. I'm right here in front of it! Mom: No you're not! Calvin: Oh, that's right. I'm at the table.

8/21: Susie: I saw a turtle down by the creek. Calvin: Big deal! Who cares? I've seen hundreds of turtles! Probably millions! Who wants to see another dumb ol' turtle? Susie: Ha!

8/22: Calvin: Can I ride in the grocery cart? Mom: I think you're a little big for that now. Calvin: Please?? Mom: All right. Up you go. Calvin: Oh boy! Now run down the aisle and let go!

8/23: Aawweeawweeaaw! The water looked a little cold, eh, Tarzan?

8/24: Calvin: Wanna toss the ol' pigskin around? Hobbes: Heck no. Calvin: Phooey. Hobbes: The center snaps the ball! Calvin: The quarterback looks for an opening! The defense disintergrates beneath the coming onslaught! The quarterback jumps and dodges! Hobbes: Hobbes breaks clear! Calvin: Calvin passes! Hobbes: An amazing catch! Hobbes is at the 30..the 20..the 10.. Calvin: But he's tackled from behind and laterals to Calvin so he can make the touchdown! Hobbes: But Calvin fumbles the ball and Hobbes recovers it! Calvin: But a penalty is called on the play and Hobbes is sent to the bench! Hobbes: Hobbes defects to the other team and is greeted with enthusiastic cheers! The crowd goes wild! Calvin: Calvin prepares to cripple the traitor with an illegal face mask pull! Hobbes: Hobbes defies him by pouring out his mouth guard onto Calvin's helmet! Calvin: Boy, you can see why football is such a violent game! Hobbes: Hobbes' team gains a yard! All the cheerleaders come out for smooches!!

The first strip in Something Under the Bed is Drooling was published in newspapers on August 18, 1986 - 40 years ago!
We are going to try a book club at a pace of a week at a time.
Each week a new date-range post will be pinned so we can discuss the comment.
(We will eventually revisit book 1 during sabbatical dates)
I considered many ways to run a book club and I think this will be the best since it will let us relive the way the strips came to life.
Get yourself organized - find the book and put it on the coffee table or nightstand or breakfast bar. Disconnect and read it on paper. Then come here to discuss.
Note: you can find the strips…
- SUTBID or
- half way into The Essential C&H,
- Complete Collection
- Portable compendium

Hi there,

I remember a spin off webcomic series called Calvin & Company, about Calvin & Susie and their kids. It was posted online (Facebook maybe?), and there were a few dozen strips.

I can find only a handful online, after extensive scouring. Wondering if anyone else remembers this or by any chance knows where to find the complete archives?

ETA - similar to Hobbes and Bacon in concept, but the art was not as well defined and the archive much more extensive.

EVERYONE WELCOME THE NEW MOD. They've been a long time commentator and have had really good ideas and are helping keep this sub going. Thanks for your suggestions, keep em coming! Let's go exploring!!!!

With the new API changes it will be difficult to create a daily bot that posts daily comics, and it will be difficult to keep people from posting the comics while allowing pictures and keeping gocomics from nuking their accounts and this subreddit from orbit. What do you want to see? What do you want this subreddit to grow into. All comments will be considered. Trying to keep our love alive without getting people or this subreddit banned.

I was at a used bookstore this weekend and I picked up a French version of Calvin and Hobbes. Aside from reading the translation to see how some of the jokes landed I saw that on the cover Calvin's shirt is blue instead of the usual red. I'm wondering if this was a coloring error or intentional. What other translations of this comic have you seen in the wild?

I always wondered why on the Sunday strips (the long colourful ones) why the first couple of squares would usually be their own mini joke/scene, rather than launching straight into the main story/joke.

I hope that makes sense! I'm not describing it very well.

I'm in the UK and I wasn't sure if it was just a Calvin and Hobbes thing or a general US Sunday comics thing

My sister was telling me that my nephew's football team lost 11-0, and I couldn't help but think "looks like someone's been building some character"!

In the November 24, 1987, Calvin says

> Dad says the sun isn't going out. He says it's colder because the earth's orbit is taking us farther from the Sun.

As is documented on the Calvin and Hobbes wiki, this line was altered for The Complete Calvin and Hobbes collection.

> Dad says the sun isn't going out. He says it's colder because our hemisphere is tilted away from the Sun now.

Today, while reading my copy of The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes (dated 1995, 6th printing), I was surprised to see the altered text! On page 94!

So I checked some copies of Yukon Ho! One had 1989 on the Copyright page, and no printing/edition information. The other was a 1991 Scholastic edition. And right there on page 87 is the altered text again!

I have no way of being certain that the Yukon Ho! copy I am looking at is a first edition. So I am wondering, what's written on your copy of Yukon Ho!, and The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes?