I’ve got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
BILL WATTERSON[Calvin, who has the chicken pox, calls Susie on the telephone.] Susie: Hello? Calvin: Hi, Susie! It’s me, Calvin! I was wondering if you’d like to come over and play. Susie: Why, sure! Boy,
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Animals aren’t conditional about friendships. Animals like you just the way you are. They listen to your problems, they comfort you when you’re sad, and all they ask in return is a little kindness.
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Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
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Although I’m certainly glad cartoons are finally getting some respect as an art, I’m fairly ambivalent to see cartooning as a legitimate academic offering. If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them.
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What’s the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see ’em?
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One of the jokes I really like is that the fantasies are drawn more realistically than reality, since that says a lot about what’s going on in Calvin’s head.
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You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
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The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life… I don’t want the issue of Hobbes’s reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
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Calvin: Life’s a lot more fun when you aren’t responsible for your actions.
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I’ve been interested in cartooning all my life. I read the comics as a kid, and I did cartoons for high school publications – the newspaper and yearbook and soon. In college, I got interested in political cartooning and did political cartoons.
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Calvin the zombie searches for food. Horribly, the undead feed upon the living! …Although, in a pinch, a PBJ will do, if you eat it messily enough.
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I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
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Sleepwalking?” “Nightmare?” “Homicidal psycho jungle cat!
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I’m a misunderstood genius.” “What’s misunderstood?” “Nobody thinks I’m a genius.
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We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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