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I don’t think I’d have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I’d known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.

Bill Watterson

I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word ‘booger’ in a newspaper comic strip.
BILL WATTERSON

Firsts Hobbes Use
It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what’s cool.
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Grow Up Ideas People
Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist – how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
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Drugs Missing Rooms Trashed
Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm’s Thermonuclear League of Liberty.
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Class League Superhero
It’s a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it’s light out.
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Light Sleep Summer
I’M SIGNIFICANT!!! … Say’s the dust speck.
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Dust Say Significant Specks
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
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Ignorance Learning Waste
Reality continues to ruin my life.
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Funny Inspirational Life
All the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and versatile, so I think they’ll continue to find relevance one way or another. But they definitely won’t be the same as what I grew up with.
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Looks Media Thinking
There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them.
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Different Gatekeepers Gone Prospects Voice
As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever.
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Congratulations Forever Long
Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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Essence Surprise Surprising
Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.
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Peace Play War
My problem is that I don’t paint ambitiously. It’s all catch and release – just tiny fish that aren’t really worth the trouble to clean and cook.
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Problem Tiny Trouble
You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
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Body School Spirit
My whole problem is that my lips move when I think.
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Lips Moving Thinking

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