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Poor Miss Wormwood

Sun, 17 Aug 2014 16:23:56 +0000

It’s hard not to feel sorry for Miss Wormwood.

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Suraj 13 Feb 2016 4:34 am: I pity his babysitter Rosalyn more!

Calvin, speechless

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:57:38 +0000

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Vinu 28 Apr 2010 11:25 pm: Nice ! what did you do? Manually erase the text? Knowing you, i suspect there is some automation at work here :)
S Anand 29 Apr 2010 7:17 am: Oh, not quite. By 2006, I’d typed out all the Calvin and Hobbes (by hand, spending 6 years at it). This was just filtering all the strips that didn’t have any text on them :-)
Vinu 30 Apr 2010 5:52 pm: Ouch. That’s a lot of typing. Surprised you did not crowdsource it… Perhaps for the next assignment? Asterix comics anybody?

Hiccups

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:52:20 +0000

This morning, I was watching an episode of Finley the Fire Engine in which one of the trucks had hiccups. Reminded me of this Calvin & Hobbes — especially Hobbes’ remark in the second strip.

Taare Zameen Par and Calvin

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:00:00 +0000

Watch this segment of Taare Zameen Par.

Then check these Calvin & Hobbes strips.

Bless them both -- Aamir and Bill.

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Saurabh 30 Dec 2007 12:00 pm: Interesting! So we know who is the copy cat here :) BTW, I didn’t know that you can just post a segment using Google Video..Is this something that can be done for Youtube videos as well.
Chittaranjan 30 Dec 2007 12:00 pm: Yeah! That whole “Math Problem” and the Cartoonic representation of it Immediately reminded me of ‘Spaceman Spiff’…. I did look within my C&H archives for this strip but couldn’t find it. Thanks for this now…
Tarun 6 Apr 2009 12:27 pm: yeah…. i realised it the moment the maths problem came in front of that fellow.
JK 3 Dec 2009 5:00 am: God when will our people come up with our own ideas? Every movie and songs and albums have been a copy from some of the best in the Western countries. Sad on our education system that does not make us think out of box leading to such pathetic situation :(
Transmogrifier 4 Aug 2010 8:00 pm (pingback): […] Just found that the C & H ‘inspirations’ have been covered here and […]
BabyGodfather 15 Jan 2012 8:06 am: Maybe a little too late to respond here, but yup I did observe this too while watching the movie ! I just choose to say God Bless Bill, not Aamir for stealing / approving the stealing and making money out of it. Did the so called perfect and creative guy credit Bill Watterson there ? I highly doubt that. It’s a direct theft. P.S. : Big fan of your site.
Paul H 5 Sep 2012 9:36 pm: I remember a Looney Tunes cartoon about a boy that daydreams in class and has spaceman adventures during lessons. That must out date Calvin and Hobbes by at least a decade if not more.
Paul H 5 Sep 2012 9:43 pm: The Looney Tunes cartoons are A to Z-Z-Z-Z (1953) and Boyhood Daze (1957). The daydreams of Calvin are very similar to those of the Ralph Phillips character. I was off by a few decades. No doubt Bill Watterson saw these cartoons as a child.

Calvin and Hobbes animated

Thu, 17 May 2007 12:00:00 +0000

A Calvin and Hobbes cartoon, drawn by Dadomani.

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kasi 28 May 2007 1:31 pm: Hi Anand, U must check this http://david-heron.me.uk/blog/2007/04/08/virtual-barbershop with ur headphone vol high.. wid 3d music, its really kewl :) n chk the more links given there
Docsound 29 May 2009 8:45 pm: Calvin and Hobbes cartoon is not drawned by dadomani!

Calvin and Hobbes Dad explains science

Fri, 04 May 2007 12:00:00 +0000

My second most favourite series from Calvin and Hobbes, where Dad teaches Calvin the wonders of science.

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Joe 24 Oct 2008 5:56 am: Awesome!

I always love this strip!
Elizabeth 21 Dec 2008 12:51 pm: Dad’s know EVERYTHING. XD
Josh 23 Feb 2009 11:26 pm: ha ha - I love this strip. he should return!!
Frankie 17 Jun 2009 5:07 pm: Absolutely true! And I remember when you actually carried out the last frame of comic strip #3. Now…let’s go build some crazy snowmen!
domenico 23 Jul 2009 3:16 am: I have always been a fan of this strip…
domenico 23 Jul 2009 3:17 am: Sounds like me explaining stuff to my kids when they were growing up…I don’t know how they got so screwed up…
RaGe 13 Aug 2009 2:50 pm: Got the one about black and white photos and the world being black and white? R
Nethra 1 Sep 2009 10:42 am: Awesome!
The Calvin and Hobbes search Takedown | s-anand.net 21 May 2010 11:56 am (pingback): […] able to do a lot of cool stuff with this, like statistically improbable phrases and some amusing posts as […]
Blake 4 Aug 2010 4:41 pm: You’re missing the one time Dad gets it right. He explains a fact about two points on a record and Calvin is scared out of his mind.
Daren 7 Nov 2010 11:09 am: “Where does wind come from?” “Trees sneezing.”
New Subreddit: Explain It Like I’m Calvin | Slacktory | The only site on the internet. 22 Sep 2011 8:47 pm (pingback): […] the canonical answers from the actual comic here. And then go make up some answers for the current questions at […]
Don Wood 6 Jun 2012 7:10 pm: All four of my sons grew up with Calvin and Hobbs. That explains everything.
Paddy 23 May 2012 5:12 pm: Thanks, I’ve been looking for the B&W world strip for ages, and now not only did I find it here, you’ve collected strips from one of my favorite themes from C&H! Thank you!
- A dad maybe a bit too much like Calvin’s
Anjali 14 Apr 2012 1:33 pm: Ha, brilliant!! My favourite strip of all time.
Saturday 6.25.11 « Crossfit South Bend blog 25 Jun 2011 12:01 am (pingback): […] Calvin’s father explains science […]
Dave 30 Jan 2012 8:35 am: I’ve got to say, I have based some of my parenting from what I learned in C*H. Unfortunately, I’ve also taught my daughter to question things that don’t seem right. And she does, she definitely does.
Judy H 23 Feb 2012 7:37 am: I just remembered how I found your blog. I Googled “Calvin and Hobbes Bridge Load Limit”, this being my favorite C & H strip, and up popped your site. Lucky me! I pinned the strip to “Pinterest”, my newest favorite website, and that links me (and other folks who follow me on Pinterst) back to your site. Cool. I’m in California, BTW. Judy
If I could find words* « Mon Tout Petit Montréal 24 Oct 2012 7:20 pm (pingback): […] je songe à écrire un livre qui se nommera « Etymologie et linguistique pour le papa de Calvin« ) copyright : […]
James Robert Smith 8 Dec 2012 4:34 pm: I had completely forgotten that Calvin’s dad was a total asshole!
From the mouths of babes and sucklings – technology and toddlers « 28 Nov 2012 4:03 pm (pingback): […] of entertaining myself by warping his mind with made-up answers the way Calvin’s dad does (for examples, see this link), I tried to answer his questions as simply and logically as possible. However, reality is often […]
Why I’m Not Allowed to Have Children | Fangs and Clause 28 Aug 2013 4:35 pm (pingback): […] I like to call this the Calvin’s Dad School of Parenting. […]
The insidious costs of disability for spoonies | Nourish Creativity 31 Jan 2013 12:47 pm (pingback): […] I think about this, I am reminded of this Calvin and Hobbes strip: http://www.s-anand.net/blog/calvin-and-hobbes-dad-explains-science/ I live my life kind of like Calvin’s dad imagines civil engineers determine weight limits: I […]
Samuel 1 Mar 2013 8:57 am: Confession time: when I was younger, I actually believed Calvin’s dad’s story about how the world used to be black-and-white.
Minivans Are Hot | The Father to His Calvin 16 May 2013 1:19 pm (pingback): […] Image Credit […]
Calvin and his dad | ENGL388 16 Apr 2013 3:17 am (pingback): […] http://www.s-anand.net/blog/calvin-and-hobbes-dad-explains-science/ […]
Magic | Idle Log 8 Sep 2014 6:43 pm (pingback): […] of explanations on children. Bill Watterson satirizes it with Calvin’s dad, and it’s hilarious. Enjoy. It wouldn’t bother me much, but Liam was not asking very complicated questions. He wanted to […]
Dad, does the moon like me? | Just In Words 18 Feb 2016 3:49 am (pingback): […] One morning, after a full moon, the moon was clearly visible in the morning sky. I pointed it out to him. As we continued to drive, he noticed that the moon appeared to “follow” us — it basically stayed in the same spot in the sky as we drove along. “Dad, the moon’s following me…. Dad, does the moon like me?” My son clearly thought that the moon was following him and that therefore it only made sense that the moon liked him. At that moment I had a decision to make, I could explain to my son that the moon really wasn’t following us at all it just appears that way because the moon is 238,900 miles away and that at that distance, the angle between where we are and the moon would change so negligibly that it would only appear that the moon was following us; or I could lie, agree with him, and not shatter this adorable sense of self-Ptolemaic importance, somewhat like Calvin’s dad in these Calvin and Hobbes Comics. […]
Kaushik Banerjee 12 Nov 2017 5:22 am: Amazing alternative explanations . Why not, even scientists and everybody once knew that the Sun goes round the earth.
Hilariously Untrue Dad 'Facts' Part 1: Brought to You by the Father from 'Calvin & Hobbes' 23 Jan 2018 10:25 pm (pingback): […] collected some of Calvin’s father’s most sagely wisdom for you to try on for […]
Why does JNDI return a DataSource with a NULL uri instead of a lookup failure? - Tutorial Guruji 13 Aug 2021 7:55 am (pingback): […] Why did lookup create a useless BasicDataSource with a null URL? Is there a better way to detect if a JNDI name ‘doesn’t exist’ than to try using it and see if it blows up? That approach reminds me of how they test bridges. […]
70 Posts From ‘The Dad’ That Perfectly Encapsulate Parenthood - Success Life Lounge 18 Oct 2023 12:55 pm (pingback): […] fathers is to simply make things up, perhaps most famously, the dad in “Calvin and Hobbes,” whose hair-brained explanations for curious Calvin work as a pretty effective punchline. Instead of rolling their eyes, true […]

Calvin and Hobbes Tracer Bullet 1

Fri, 04 May 2007 12:00:00 +0000

My all-time favourite series from Calvin and Hobbes.

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JEZZI 18 Nov 2008 4:55 pm: Tracer Bullet is so funny!
Comic Books – Mr. Andrews Classes 23 Dec 2011 1:16 am (pingback): […] Comic […]
Bullitt (1968) – CineHatch 9 Jul 2018 12:03 am (pingback): […] by spoofs like The Simpsons’ masterpiece McBain and the hat tip of Calvin & Hobbes‘ Tracer Bullet). Still, Peter Yates’ uneven direction doesn’t help, with pacing that lurches more than San […]

Calvin and Hobbes trivia quizzes

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 12:00:00 +0000

Calvin and Hobbes trivia quizzes.

Calvin and Hobbes Extensive Strip Search

Thu, 06 Apr 2006 12:00:00 +0000

Martijn’s Calvin and Hobbes Extensive Strip Search is back. It doesn’t let you search the quotes themselves, but a (pretty detailed) description of each cartoon instead. (Mine searches Calvin and Hobbes quotes).

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Anonymous 21 Oct 2006 8:55 am: if you know calvin and hobbes u know how many are there. I have been looking for March 24, 1994 for an ages and this helped me to find it in a minute. great site I do recomend

Calvin and Hobbes index - 930630

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:00:00 +0000

My Calvin and Hobbes index is current up to June 1993. Two-and-a-half years left to complete.

In search of Bill Watterson

Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:00:00 +0000

Len goes in search of Bill Watterson, the author of Calvin and Hobbes. He visits Bill’s home town, and manages to interview Mom. Apparantly, Dad is quite like Dad, but Bill is more like Hobbes than Calvin.

Calvin and Hobbes index - 900602

Tue, 27 Dec 2005 12:00:00 +0000

My Calvin and Hobbes index is current up to June 1990.

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Sathya 28 Dec 2005 3:23 am: Are you manually typing all these stuff ? Ammadiyov … why dont u outsource such stuff :-)
S Anand 28 Dec 2005 8:04 am: Whom to? :-)
ritzkini 28 Dec 2005 8:32 am: !!! :O all by yourself !!?? crazy about C&H,eh ?
S Anand 28 Dec 2005 10:55 am: Completely. And I’m not the only one I know either!
vikram 29 Dec 2005 12:03 am: wow awesome man! i’m crazy about C&H too. great work man. :)
Sathya 30 Dec 2005 3:25 am: Now you know whom to outsource to ;-P
S Anand 30 Dec 2005 10:43 am: Hey, my index vanished!
S Anand 30 Dec 2005 10:24 pm: It’s back.
Madhu 5 Jan 2006 7:57 am: Did you try the Calvin Hobbes entire collection for their 20th Anniversary. Its about 5k in India.
S Anand 5 Jan 2006 6:00 pm: Very tempting!
Anonymous 9 Jan 2006 8:07 am: i have an internet link to the complete c&h, let me know if you would like iy
S Anand 10 Jan 2006 9:08 am: Is it in text? I’d really like the complete Calvin in TEXT.
S Anand 11 Jan 2006 11:16 am: Calvin theme subjects.
Madhu 18 Jan 2006 9:53 am: Let me help you with this. I will work on Calvin and Hobbes backwards from 31-12-95 and see where I can reach
S Anand 18 Jan 2006 10:52 am: Thanks, Madhu! That’ll be wonderful. Someone else I know in Germany working backwards from 31-12-95. How about if you take it forward from 01-01-93?
JustSomebody 3 Apr 2010 5:17 am: Excuse me, but I think this strip search is broken. For some reason, it only has comics up to July 31, 1988. All the other comics aren’t showing and the text is replaced with jibberish.
S Anand 3 Apr 2010 8:02 am: Yes – thanks for pointing this out. Fixed it now.
The Calvin and Hobbes search Takedown | s-anand.net 21 May 2010 12:02 pm (pingback): […] bit puzzled, but just added it to my list of eccentricities and carried on. I was halfway there in 2005, pushed further in 2006, and with some help, I managed to finally complete […]

Real-lfe Calvin snow art

Sun, 11 Dec 2005 12:00:00 +0000

Real-life Calvin snow art.

Complete Calvin and Hobbes

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:00:00 +0000

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes will be released. (I’ve transcribed the quotes.)

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Anonymous 20 Sep 2005 6:08 pm: btw its available at a website, all strips ever published
Anonymous 20 Sep 2005 6:09 pm: and its searchable thru google, let me know if you want the link
S Anand 21 Sep 2005 4:58 pm: YES PLEASE! Can you mail me at root dot node at gmail dot com?

Calvin quotes

Mon, 01 Aug 2005 12:00:00 +0000

I’ve typed up a some Calvin and Hobbes quotations

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FrogsIntoPrinces 1 Aug 2005 2:05 pm: By the way I have the entire C
S Anand 1 Aug 2005 7:26 pm: As text? Or the images?
Dhar 2 Aug 2005 2:44 pm: Unfortunately images…
Dhar 2 Aug 2005 2:45 pm: And for links, check out http://digg.com/spy They use Ajax, which is a Good Thing (TM).
Ravi 2 Aug 2005 7:14 pm: There is a searchable text-index at http://users.rcn.com/dtweed/calvin/index.htm
S Anand 2 Aug 2005 7:38 pm: I know. I wrote to David in Feb. He could not share his database with me. So I am recreating it.

Calvin and Hobbes Complete

Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:00:00 +0000

Complete Calvin and Hobbes cartoons. Grab while the site lasts. (Alternate Calvin and Hobbes collection. I’ve typed the quotes.)

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S Anand 15 Apr 2005 3:11 pm: Quotes from Calvin’s Dad

Calvin and Hobbes transcription

Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:00:00 +0000

My current project: transcribing every Calvin and Hobbes into text. Because I’d like to search, using text, for the strip in which Tracer Bullet has “six slugs, one of lead and five of bourbon” or where Dad explains why the Sun rises.

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The Calvin and Hobbes search Takedown | s-anand.net 21 May 2010 11:55 am (pingback): […] So I set out to build one. I can’t remember when, exactly, but it was before Sep 11, 2002. […]