Seem to be a lot of allergies going around.
Thanks for sharing that link; I love it.
The Lio strip made me chuckle, but the second one was so incredibly… sweet.
Everyone stop getting misty and watch this instead:
“Mars is amazing!”
You will be staggered by just how little Watterson had to make up about small boys.
As far as I remembered, he was spot on.
Yeah, there is so much you think is just hyperbole and comic exaggeration until you actually have a six year old with a fertile imagination.
Back in the 80s. I concluded that he kept detailed notes as he was growing up.
I used to enjoy reading Lio every day, but then the stupid Chicago Tribune decided to get rid of it about a year ago. It was one of the very few good comics that the Tribune ran.
I can’t tell whether this is mockery or not, so to be on the safe side, I’m sending a large muscular person with anger management issues over to discuss it with you.
There are arguments for not gathering together the writing staff of Robot Chicken together and beating them with two-by-fours. That skit is not one of them.
The sad part is that if Calvin went to school today, they would diagnose him with ADD and dose him with Ritalin.
That was…disturbing.
I shed a tear, years ago reading the very last Sunday strip, and reading this has brought it all back (sniff!)…I’ve read a few collections of cartoons in book form, and if they are really well written, the end result is a feeling of whatever underlying current or layers that are there in all the daily strips. That little bit every day, taken in one massive dose, accumulates. I had a feeling of almost melancholy after reading the complete C&H, because there was a bit of underlying sadness each day that all added up.
Nah, I was a six year old once.
Honk, sniff, darn, that strip must be responsible for the death of many trees, to supply the demand for tissues…
sigh
Here are Calvin and Susie a few years later (not as much later as the first strip, above).
Aiyeeeee!
See post 23.
Why are Calvin and Susie together? Did Lynn Johnston get some input?
It’s improbable, but it does happen that childhood friends grow up and get married. Lynn’s problem was that she had to set up contrivances and excuses to get the two characters together when natural unfolding of events in the story would have prevented it. Watterson said absolutely nothing about Calvin’s or Susie’s future life.
Calvin and Susie were definitely friends, too. They tormented each other, but hung out way too often to be anything but. I think it’s a sweet resolution; I’m personally still a fan of teasing as a form of affection, which maybe means I haven’t quite grown up yet. 
My parents met in the third grade.
Aaaaand here another Calvin and Susie comic (NSFW in a comic way!).
